Retail sector in India: HR role and challenges
International Journal of Development Research
Retail sector in India: HR role and challenges
Received 14th December, 2017; Received in revised form 19th January, 2018; Accepted 11th February, 2018; Published online 30th March, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Trupti Sachin Gupte. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Within With in retail, the emerging sectors are food and grocery, apparel, electronics, e-commerce, fashion and lifestyle. “The upcoming areas within retail are luxury, super specialty stores/ malls, and renewed emphasis on high streets. Retail is a sunrise industry and perhaps one of the biggest industries having potential for employees. It has appeared suddenly and going to increase in future. India has no past experience of this type and of its magnitude. It’s necessary to get ready to meet the challenges posed by it at HR front. Government has to lay down the policy, which has to be industry friendly but real entrepreneurial role has to be played by the private sector, especially big domestic players in retail industry.