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An Internship Report On
Submitted To:
Tareque R. Moudud
Submitted By:
Reema, Rabeya Zahed
ID:04-04888-2
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November 28, 2007
Dear Sir
Here is the report of the Internship program that you have assigned me, as a fulfillment of my course
BBA program. It is my pleasure to submit this report on “HR Issues And Training And Development
Procedures Of Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd. The report is consisted of two parts. The first part talks
about the HR issues and second part talks about the Training and Development Program of Beximco
Pharmaceuticals Ltd. I have tried my level best to accomplish my report objectives successfully. For
further clarification, I will be pleased to provide you with it.
Your sincerely
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Acknowledgement:
At first I would like to thank the Director, Office of Placement and Alumni to give me the opportunity to
do my internship report on Beximco Pharmacuticals LtdLimited. I would like to thank Beximco
Pharmaceuticals Ltd. to offer me the internship program at their office.
I would like to thank my course instructor Tareque R. Moudud for his efforts in bringing out the best in
the report. He has given his endless efforts to guide me in the right direction during the processing of the
report. I would also like to convey my heart welcome thanks to Mr. Syed Ahmer Hossain General
Manager (Project) at Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd for his effort in presenting the concept of the report.
I have enjoyed working with him for the period of 2 months.
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Executive summary
Human resource management (HRM) is concerned with the people dimension in management. Since
every organization is made up of people, acquiring their services, developing their skills, motivating
them, to high levels of performance, and ensuring that they continue to maintain their commitment to the
organization are essential to achieving organizational objectives.
Those organizations that are able to acquire, develop, stimulate and keep outstanding workers will be
both effective (able to achieve their goals) and efficient (expending the least amount of resources
necessary).Those organizations that are-ineffective or inefficient risk the hazards stagnating or going out
of business. Survival of an organization requires competent managers and workers coordinating their
efforts toward an ultimate goal. While successful coordination cannot guarantee success, organizations
that arc unsuccessful in getting such coordination from managers and workers will ultimately fail.
We can define human resource management as the process of acquiring, training, appraising, and
compensating employees, and attending to their labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns.
Human resource management (HRM) consists of numerous activities including
Chapter: 1
1.0. Introduction:
1.1. Background of Baximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd:
1.2. Rationale of the Study:
1.3. Objective
1.3.0 Broad Objective:
1.3.1. Specific Objective:
1.4. Scope:
1.4.0 Limitations:
1.5. Methodology:
1.5.0 Sources of information:
1.5.1 Primary data:
1.5.2. Secondary data:
1.6. Research approach:
1.6.0Sampling plan:
1.6.1. Sample unit:
1.6.2. Sample size:
1.6.3. Sampling procedure:
1.6.4 Contact method:
1.7. Activity schedule:
1.8. Conclusion:
Chapter: 2
2.1Organizational Overview:
2.2.Research & Development
2.3.Core Values & Social Responsibilities
2.4.Product & Services
Chapter: 3
Topic Analysis And Description:
HR Issues At Beximco Pharma:
3.0.IMPORTANCE OF HRM
3.1. HRM DEPARTMENT OF BEXIMCO PHARMACETICALS LIMITED (BPL)
3.1.1: ACTIVITIES OF HRD OF BPL:
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Chart-1: Functions of Human Resource Department
3.1.2: ORGANOGRAM OF HR DEPARTMENT
3.2. HRM PRACTICES IN BPL (Primary Activities)
3.2.0: RECRUITMENT POLICY OF BPL
3.2.1: RECRUITMENT PROCESS IN BPL
Procedure Followed in Attracting Employees for certain portions
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Chapter: 1
1.0. Introduction:
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Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is concerned with the flow of people into, through and out of
organization. BPL has a well-structured HR department, which concerned about the human resource
asset of the company. It follows all the rules and regulations, which related to human resource.
One of the major part pf HRM is the training and development. Any organization without training and
development is incomplete and impossible to survive in the long term. There’s a difference between the
term training and development. The process of training and development are often confused. Training
means learning the basic skills and knowledge necessary for a particular job or growing up of jobs. To
put it in other works, training is the act of increasing the knowledge for doing a particular job. But
development, on the other hand, means growth of the individual in all respects. An organization works
for the development of its executives or potential executives on order to enable them to be more
effective in performing the various functions of management. In other words, training is a short-term
process by which non-managerial personnel learn technical knowledge and skills for a definite purpose.
Development, on the other hand, is a long-term process by which managerial personnel learn conceptual
and theoretical knowledge for general purpose.
Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd. provides all the necessary training to its employees and managerial
development to its executives. BPL has on the job and off-the-job training facilities for its employees
which is very much helpful for the employees to be competitive with the other organizations.
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1.1. Background of Baximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd:
BPL is the largest private sector business corporation of Bangladesh with 10% share in the domestic
market. BPL the largest pharmaceutical as well as bulk drug manufacturer of Bangladesh started its
journey back in 1980 with manufacturing and marketing of licensee products of Bayer AG, Germany
and Upjohn Inc. of USA. After its initial years of struggle, it broke ground with the launching of its own
products (Aristovit-3 Complex) in 1983. Since then, the company is continuously expanding its product
line. BPL is now producing 97 types of drugs (162 dosage forms). It not only met 90% of the country's
demand for two vital raw materials, materials, ampieillin and amoxyeillin but also started selling these to
overseas markets including South Korea and Malaysia.
BPL’s first venture into export markets started with the export of line chemicals in 1990. In 1993 it
started to export its finished products and basic chemicals. For its outstanding export performance during
1994-95, BPL was awarded the National Export Trophy (gold) in 1998. BPL is the first pharmaceutical
company in Bangladesh to receive the highest national recognition for export. In 2001, it has signed an
agreement with one of the leading distributors of Singapore with an objective to consolidate its presence
in Singapore market. The company has exported to a number of countries like Myanmar, Kenya,
Vietnam, Germany, Russia, Iran, Yemen, etc.
A multi-million dollar pharmaceutical formulation plant, which will be fully up to USFDA (The United
States Food and Drug Administration) standards, is being built. Once completed, this will be one of the
finest facilities to be available anywhere in the globe and will help it to enter into the USA and EC
markets. Several new bulk drug facilities are being developed to backward integrate their high volume
products. BPL’s commitment to its customers is to always offer them the best both in product quality
and services.
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1.2. Rationale of the Study:
The Beximco pharmaceutical Ltd. has their own established HR department. They follow all the HR
activities. Employees are paid according to their performance. Compensation system is divided between
3 classes of managers. They are- top management, mid management and lower management. Employees
are given benefits and incentives. Employees are given all the necessity training and development so that
they can cope up with the challenges and obstacles which might occur at long run of the company.
I have a very positive attitude towards Beximco Pharmaceuticals HRM issues and Training and
Development process.
1.3. Objective
1.4. Scope:
This study will deal with HR issues or HR activities and Training and Development process of Beximco
Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Survey will be limited within the head office in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. And the study
will be based on last one year’s human resource activities and training and development process.
1.4.0 Limitations:
There may be a lack of information from the management authority due to unavoidable destruction from
the office environment. Or there maybe a lack in collecting information of data.
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1.5. Methodology:
All the information in the study has been incorporated and collected from both the primary, the
secondary sources and from personal interview.
1.6.Research approach:
My research approach will be survey type. Since I am working as an Intern in the Beximco
Pharmaceuticals Ltd. I will personally observe the HR activities and also ask questions to the managers
and workers.
1.6.0Sampling plan:
1.6.1.Sample unit:
1.6.2.Sample size:
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1.6.3. Sampling procedure:
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1.7. Activity schedule:
Activity Weeks
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Identify the topic
Search the related information
Preparation of the report
Contact to the target mangers and
employees.
Questionnaire prepare
Interview
Data collection
Data Process
Draft paper preparation
Revision of the report
Final report submission
1.8. Conclusion:
BEXIMCO Pharmaceuticals Limited has very good planning of human resource, which were matched
with the company's strategic directions. The screening and evaluating methods for recruitment and
selection of general employees and managerial people were seen to be most exact for BEXIMCO
Pharmaceutical Limited so that only the best potential gets the chance to become the resources of the
company.
BEXIMCO Pharmaceutical Ltd. provides on the job and off the job training to its valuable employees to
be more efficient in the workplace.
Thus I can say that through my research I would find out all the important aspects of HR issues and the
Training and Development procedure.
Chapter: 2
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2.1Organizational Overview:
Beximco Pharma started operations in 1980, manufacturing products under the licenses of Bayer AG of
Germany and Upjohn Inc. of USA. BP has now grown to become one of Bangladesh's leading
pharmaceutical companies, supplying more than 10% of country's total medicine need. Today Beximco
Pharma manufactures and markets its own branded generics for several diseases including AIDS, cancer,
asthma, hypertension, and diabetes for both national and international markets.
Beximco Pharma manufacturing facilities are spread across a 20-acre site located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The facilities comprise of a number of purpose-built plants, including a new Oral Solid Dosage (OSD)
plant. The site includes manufacturing facilities as well as a research laboratory and a number of
warehouses. The plant and machinery of the facilities were designed, produced and installed by partners
from Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy and the United Kingdom, amongst others.
Beximco Pharma is a leading edge pharmaceutical company, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh and is
acclaimed for outstanding product quality, world-class manufacturing facilities, product development
capabilities and outstanding service. We produce and market 'branded generics' for almost all diseases
from AIDS to cancer, from infection to asthma, from hypertension to diabetes, for both national and
international markets. We also manufacture active pharmaceutical ingredients and intravenous fluids and
contract manufacture for major international brands of leading multinational companies. We partner our
activities to the humanities quest for longer, healthier, and happier life. We are the largest exporter of
medicines from Bangladesh and received Export (Gold) trophy for record three times. We are also
helping to protect our environment – we are the only pharmaceutical company in Bangladesh and among
the few in the world producing CFC free inhalers for asthma patients.
We employ more than 2,400 staff, including over 300 qualified professionals such as pharmacists,
chemists, microbiologists, engineers, doctors etc. And for employees, Beximco Pharma is not just a great
workplace, but is a great way of life. As a publicly listed company, Beximco Pharma’s shares are traded
on AIM (London Stock Exchange), Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges.
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Research and Development (R&D) has been Beximco’s core focus to transform the company into a truly
international one. This is another area where it has already shown it’s capability. In proprietary research,
Beximce has collaborative research agreement with Ciba Specialty Chemicals of Switzerland for a joint
research initiative.
In formulation R&D, the company’s Research and Development (R&D) team focuses principally on
developing new formulations, predominantly through reverse engineering techniques and on simplifying
manufacturing processes and improving cost efficiency. Over the last few years, the team successfully
developed a number of hi-tech formulations that include Ultrafen® Plus - a multi-layer formulation for
relief from pain and inflammation, Pretin®-D - a 24-hour acting formulation for relief from allergic
rhinitis with congestion, and Deflux® DT- a dispersible tablet formulation for prompt relief from nausea
and vomiting. These formulations are now commercially available in Bangladesh following regulatory
registrations. In addition, Beximco is also developing a number of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
(APIs) to ensure availability of raw materials across the range of therapeutic classes.
Until now, Beximco Pharma is the only company in Bangladesh to manufacture anti-retroviral drugs
complying with the WHO recommended treatment guidelines. More recently, it has added an anti-cancer
product in its product portfolio. The company also have over eight years of R&D and manufacturing
experience in producing highly sophisticated Metered Dose Inhaler (PMDI) products, including
salbutamol (albuterol), beclomethasone, salmeterol, salmeterol plus fluticasone, budesonide,
ipratropium, tiotropium, Levosalbutamol, ciclesonide inhalers and have emerged as one of the leading
pharmaceutical companies in asthma & COPD market in South Asia region. The reverse engineering
capability of the R&D team and the drive towards new product development and innovation are central
to building a proprietary research operation within Beximco Pharma.
Corporate social responsibility is an integral part of beximco’s business strategy, which is reflected in its
mission statement. Every employee of the company knows that the company does not view its success
and achievements in financial terms only, but also in terms of its deep relationship with the society. Each
year, an increasing amount of contribution is ploughed back into social causes, demonstrating Beximco
Pharma's commitment to the nation. More importantly the company's contribution extends beyond one-
time donation to ongoing participation as reflected in its partnership with NGOs working for AIDS
patients, in supporting sports, and in raising disease awareness among the people. Beximco donated
medicines worth millions of taka to victims in national and international calamities. Donation of
medicines to victims of earthquake in Pakistan and victims of tsunami in Sri Lanka are worth
mentioning.
The name Beximco Pharma assures of many things: outstanding product quality, leading-edge
technology, advanced new products, and a commitment to serve the medical community. Our products
come in a wide range of dosage forms including tablets, capsules, dry syrup, powder for suspension,
cream, ointment, suppositories, metered dose nasal sprays, large volume intravenous fluids, metered
dose inhalers etc. ensuring the global standard of quality.
Chapter: 3
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Topic Analysis And Description:
3.0.IMPORTANCE OF HRM
In spite of modern technology and all the systems and control coming into widespread use, people
remain the most important factor in modern industries. Without the support of the people, machines
remain idle, raw materials lie stacked and money tied up. It is obvious that the primary responsibility of
the Managers is to manage the personnel working under them. A manager may be in-charge of Sales or
Production but he has to perform two types of function- management of work and management of
people. These two functions are interdependent and one cannot be done in isolation of the other. So in
every field of activity there is the necessity of Personnel Management.
It follows that Personnel Management is the basic function of management and it infuses at all levels of
management- financial management, marketing management production management etc. Unless the
Managers working in these branches of Management themselves expect to perform all the duties for
which they are responsible, they have to secure the cooperation of other people within their part of the
total organization.
In short every Manager of the management team whether working in Sales, production, finance etc.
should some ideas of the principles of Personnel Management in order to assist them to perform one of
their most important jobs- managing people working under them.
Considering the importance of Personnel Management, Mr. Lawrenee A Appley formerly president of
the American Management Association made a classic statement many years ago and suggested that
‘’Management and personnel Administration are one and same......Management is Personnel
Administration.’
Intense global competition and the need for more responsiveness put a premium on employee
commitment. As the vice president of Human Resources at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Georgetown,
Kentucky said- ‘People are behind our success. Machines do not have new ideas, solve problems, or
grasp opportunities. Only people who are involved and thinking can make difference. Every auto plant in
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the US has basically the same machinery, but how people are utilized and involved varies widely from
one company to another. The work fore gives any company its true competitive edge’.
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Chart-1: Functions of Human Resource Department
• Records &
Statistics
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3.1.2: ORGANOGRAM OF HR DEPARTMENT
CEO
ED (Works)
(Factory)
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3.2. HRM PRACTICES IN BPL (Primary Activities)
3.2.0: RECRUITMENT POLICY OF BPL
The following shall be the recruitment policy of this Company-
• No person shall be appointed in any post unless he is citizen of Bangladesh. However, foreign
nationals may be appointed according to the need or particulars job.
• A person selected for appointment in the service of the company shall not ordinarily be less than
18 years of age and more than 45 year of age at the time of his appointment. However, this may
be relaxed for Chief Executive Officer with regard to upper age limit in special case it may
consider it.
Provided that in case of an applicant who does not hold such a certificate because of not qualifying
successfully in such an examination, a certificate of age from the chairman of a local authority
countersigned by the company medical officer shall be admitted as the proof of age.
• No person shall be appointed to any post on a permanent basis unless he submits a medical
certificate of fitness from an approved medic authority selected by the Management for the
purpose.
• Active service shall commence from the working day on which an officer report-for duty at the
place indicated by the company management before noon.
• An employee, once separated by way of dismissal from service of terminated by the management
shall not be considered for re-employment under any circumstances.
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3.2.1: RECRUITMENT PROCESS IN BPL
The Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited uses the following strategies when it needs to fill up
vacant or new positions.
Usually the medical representatives are recruited at the entry level. For certain other positions too, entry-
level recruitment may occur for which the company needs employees with certain attributes, knowledge
and skills.
Whenever possible, however, the company tries to create job postings for internal recruitment of current
employees of the company for vacant or new positions. Thus, if recruitment is required for the mid level,
first priority is given to the already employed (internal) existing potential employees. Only when the
existing people are unable to fill a vacant or new position is there required an external mid-level
recruitment. The details will be discussed in the case analysis section of this paper.
To attract current "white collar'' and top "blue collar" employees for internal recruitment, usually job
enrichment and job enlargement methods are used.
Job rotation method is used to encourage employees to develop the competencies to perform on different
jobs. Usually the line manner and the HR manager decide as to who will receive formal inter-
departmental training, and who is to receive informal inter-departmental training.
Advertisement in daily newspapers is a widely used means for attracting the potential employees,
especially for medical representative positions.
Educational institutions are used within recruits are required who possess special academic background
and/or potential employees coming form specialized disciplines.
Recommendations and references of current employees are also considered for external recruitment of
employees, for current employees may have personal contact with the required kinds of people needed
by the company.
Professional organizations also aid in recruiting for external sources, especially to recruit people with
professional background and experience, such as, lawyers, accountants, chartered accountants, and etc.
Headhunters are also a good means of attracting and finding international or local employees who are
usually highly experienced of knowledge in their field and take up top to mid level management,
professional posts. Headhunted are the types of agencies that use both "push strategy" and "pull
strategy". In a "push strategy" they hunt for people with the right kind of expertise, and experience to be
motivated to try their luck in a different organization than the current one where they are already
working. In a "pull strategy" they can do the job of hunting people with the right kind of expertise and
experience on behalf of or on request of the organization in need.
Written tests and interviews are used for the purpose of recruiting the entry-level employees such as
medical representatives. Usually potential employees undergo some written tests in the first place.
Consultants validate the tests every 2 to 3 years. Then extensive interviewing is done and induction
training is given to screen out the best possible potential employees. The steps involved in the selection
procedure of sales representatives in BPL Company are shown below:
• Field Force Applicants (who have applied from seeing newspaper advertisements and
through other means)
• Interviews Taken
• Sales Induction raining Taken (A 37 days of 296 hours long solid classroom sales
induction training given to applicants to screen out the best and most qualified people as
medical representatives of the company)
No written tests or interviews as that for entry-level employees or field force are used in selecting
managerial people, especially with those with expedience. For the HRM of the company view such
traditional tests and interviews are inappropriate for with such people.
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Leaderless Group Discussions or LGDs are means to help select potential employees who are usually of
high ability senior official or managerial competency or professional qualifications and/or experience.
Usually these people are allowed to discuss independently about a topic without any intervention like the
presence of leader or facilitator and in the process, their solving and thinking abilities are measured.
There is a video fitted in the room for LGD and those measuring which form another room without being
notices by the participants in the LGD, rate the success of the potential employees.
The company to measure the managerial competency of potential employees use Managerial
Competency or MCQs. This method is developed in 2001 by the reputed McBar Hay Company. It
measures the managerial competencies by asking 57 questions to the potential employees and measuring
them on the following 7 dimensions:
• Achievement orientation
• Developing others
• Directive capacity
• Impact and influence on people and things
• Impersonal understanding
• Organizational awareness
• Team leadership
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Procedure
After preliminary sessions in the Human Resources Department, the new employees are sent to the
Department concerned along with a representative of the Human Resources Department. Upon arriving
at the assigned Department, the inductee is introduced to his Supervisor and fellow. The Supervisor
instructs the employee on such matters as to how to clock in and out, Department rules, how his job is to
be done etc., and instructs about:
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3.3.2: PROBATION PERIOD AND CONFIRMATION
i) The period of probation shall be minimum six months, which may be extended form time to time
for the good judgment of the company, if the performance of the employee is not satisfactory.
ii) If during the period of probation, the services of the employee are found unsatisfactory, he shall
be informed about it in writing before the completion of the period.
iii) The services of a probationer may be terminated by the management at any time without
assigning any reason and the employee concerned shall not get any notice pay or compensation
for such termination.
iv) On successful completion of the probationary period the employee concerned shall be confirmed
in writing.
A confirmed employee will be issued with an identity cared by the Human Resources Manager.
The validity of card shall remain during the employment period of an employee but necessary charges
may be made as and when required basis.
An employee must surrender his card upon separation of service from the company.
A lost identity card has to be reported by the concerned employee to the information.
Replacement of lost identity card will only be made on payment of TK 100/- (TAKA one hundred only).
3.3.4: TRANSFER
Depending on the Company's need and availability of internal candidate, an employee can be
transferred:
An employee will be entitled up-to seven days transfer leave to move to a new place of posting and to
find suitable accommodation. During these seven days the employee can claim Traveling Allowance.
3.3.5: PROMOTION
a) All promotions shall be made on the basis of merit of each case and no employee shall have
claim to be promoted to any particular post or grade by virtue of seniority alone.
b) All promotions from one post to the higher post shall be made on the basis of merit based on
performance evaluation, subject to availability of vacancies.
c) The management shall always have the right to fill up a vacancy at any time by direct recruitment
from outside.
3.3.6: RESIGNATION
If a permanent employee resigns from his service, he shall give prior notice according to his letter of
appointment. In case of any failure in this respect on the part of the resigning employee, the management
shall have the right to deduct such amount as will be equivalent to the salary of the notice period from
the final dues of the employee.
3.3.7: TERMINATION
a) The management may at any time without assigning any reason whatsoever terminate the
services of any permanent employee on giving 120 days prior notice in writing or on paying 120
day's wages in notice.
Provided further that the employee, whose employment is so terminated, shall be paid
compensation at the rate of thirty days wages for every completed year of service or for any part
thereof in excess of six months, in addition to any other benefit.
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b) The management may at time without assigning any reason whatsoever terminate the services of
any temporary employee on giving thirty days notice in writing or on payment of 30 days wages
in notice.
Provided further that the temporary employee, whose employment is so terminated, shall not get
any compensation.
3.3.8: DISCHARGE
Where an employee, in the opinion of the management, is incapable or has ceased to be capable by
reason of infirmity of mind or body or continuous ill-health, the management, in consultation with the
Company Medical Officer, may discharge him on medical ground and pay him his benefits as per Rule.
3.3.9: RETIREMENT
An employee will retire from the service of the Company on completion of 57 (Fifty seven) years of age.
For the purpose of calculating age the date of birth provided in the Application for Employment and
recorded with the Company will be used.
This interview is conducted by the Human Resources Department when an employee leaves the
company on voluntarily resignation.
When an employee is voluntarily quitting specially after securing employment elsewhere, He has no
reason to conceal his real felling about the company.
a. To ascertain from the employee the real reasons for his leaving the present job.
b. To give the employee an indication if he is really a desirable employee.
It is a device for discussing vital information about the company's policies or practices and its employee
relations program and is intended to ascertain the employee reaction to various faces of his work, such as
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dissatisfaction with any aspect of his job or the working conditions or his relationships with fellow
employees or his supervisor.
The exit interview is a means of identifying the core spots in the organization and possible shortcoming
of management so that the necessary remedies may be instituted. It is also one way of knowing the ills,
such as personality conflicts that exit in the company or in the department where the employee has been
working.
It is preferable that either the Human Resources Manager or senior executives, who assists or advises
management in the formulation of policies, conduct the exit interview.
1. Every employee shall conform to and abide by the Rules and shall observe, comply with and
obey orders and directions of his superiors under whose supervision or control he may be
placed. Observance of rules and regulations as enforced from time to time is a condition of
employment.
2. No employee shall, directly or indirectly engage himself in any business, trade or profession
other than employment, which interferes with, his performances of duty as an employee of the
company and he shall faithfully and diligently perform the duties entrusted to him.
3. An employee may be required to work in any department / section / unit as per decision of the
management without adversely affecting his wages/ salaries and other service conditions.
4. The company reserves the right to inspect all the employees or property of the employees at any
time while on Company's premises including Company's transport.
5. An employees shall neither be absent from his duties, nor leave the station without informing his
department / section unit, the employee shall inform the Company as soon as possible but not
later than two days of his absence, through any available means in case of sudden sickness or
accident or any unavoidable reason. He must keep the Company informed of his latest address.
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6. Employees are to devote their whole working time and attention to the discharge of their duties,
to keep all secret confidential information imparted to them and to surrender, on termination,
discharge etc. of employment or otherwise when required. These include all documents,
notebooks, manuscripts and the like in their possession relating to the Company's business.
7. No employee shall except with the prior sanction of the management on writing directly or
indirectly engage in any trade or business or selling
8. No employee shall take part in any activity in a manner counter to the Vision of the Company.
9. No employee shall without prior information to the CEO contribute to any press, radio,
television, organization nor shall make public or publish any document paper or information of
the Company which may come into his custody or possession.
10. No employee shall sign any business, contract or document making any financial commitment on
behalf of the Company unless he is specifically authorized to do so.
11. No consideration or gratuity may be offered, requested or accepted by any employee in the
course of his duties.
12. Every employee will be responsible for safekeeping and return in good condition of all the
Company's properly, which may be in his custody, care or charge. The management shall have
the right to deduct the money value of all such things from the employee's dues and take such
other action, as the Company reasons proper in the event of employee's failure to account
satisfactorily for such property.
13. No employee shall, without specific and precious written permission of the authorities, revoke
any property from the Company's premises.
14. It is the duty of every employee to read notices posted on Notice Boards and employees deemed
to have knowledge of the contents of all such notice affecting them.
15. No employee shall, during his employment or after its termination, disclose to any person any
information relating to the Company or its clients or any trade secrets which have come to his
knowledge while in the service of the Company except when compelled to do so by a Court of
Law.
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16. Smoking is not permitted in the office premises except in specified places.
17. Employees are responsible to keep their working place clean and tidy in order to maintain a good
working environment.
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b. Employees are entitled accumulate leave as per following guideline:
c. Based on the need, the employee applies to his / her Supervisor by the use of a Leave
Application From.
d. Annual leave is approved at least one week before the leave is enforced.
e. Department head reserves the right to refuse or suggest alternate dates. Efforts are
however made to accommodate the needs and convenience of the employees.
f. In case of applying by filling Leave Application, once the Department Head approves the
application, the form is forwarded to HR for:
i. If under certain circumstance leave is not approved by the department head, Employees
(in the Assistant Manager levels and below) may encash leave up to 50% of entitlement.
Only basic pay is considered for leave encashment.
ii. Medical Leave: Absence caused due to personal illness or injury from an accident outside to
scope of employment is adjusted from an employee's-Medical Leave entitlement.
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a. Employees at all level are entitled to15 days of medical leave per year. Medical Leave is
calculated on working day basis.
b. Employees in the supervisor level and below may accumulate up to 30 days of medical
leave.
d. If an employee requires taking time off on medical illness ground for a short period
during office hours, short medical leave is applied.
f. In ease of serious prolonged illness, an employee may be permitted to utilize his / her
annual and casual leave after exhausting his / her Medical Leave.
g. If an employee has exhausted all type of paid leave and is still absent due to illness, any
further Medical leave is treated as leave without pay. Unless otherwise decided by the
management on advice from HR.
h. Depending on the nature of illness, the employees obtain fitness certificate from an
authorized Medical Practitioner to return to work.
iii. Accident Leave: Absent caused, on account of injury within the scope of employment will be
treated as Accident Leave with full pay.
iv. Casual Leave: To meet his / her personal obligation emergency, or an urgent situation of personal
nature, an Employee may be allowed casual leave
v. Maternity Leave: Female employees are entitled to avail maternity leave as per following
procedure:
a. All confirmed female employees are entitled to avail 4 months of maternity leave. This
entitlement will hold good for the first two children.
b. The period maternity leave may cover both prenatal and postnatal period.
vi. Special Leave: Employees will be entitled to special leave as per following procedure:
a. Study Leave: An employee may be granted study leave subject to the discretion of the
management.
b. Leave during Probation: During probation period, special Leave will only be considered as
per recommendation of department head. In such case, leave may be taken but it is treated as
advance and is adjusted from the employee’s entitlement of leave upon confirmation.
Head Office: HR maintains the employee leave record in the leave management software.
Factory: Factory HR maintains Leave Books for all individual permanent works in compliance with the
labor law. Employees in the Assistant Officer or higher grades use Leave Application form to apply for
leaves, Short Leave Application form to apply for short leaves while department heads use form for
reporting absence without information. Factory MR maintains record of all such leave.
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3.6: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
By the term "Industrial Relations", we generally mean relationship in an industry. Later on, when the
workers started dealing with the employers, Trade union activities came to be included under this term.
Still later, when the state had to be involved in such relationship; it also became a part of industrial
relations.
Considering all these elements mentioned above, the term "Industrial Relations" could be taken to stand
for employee-union-employer-government relationship in employment.
3.6.0: OBJECTIVES OF HR
Apart from the primary objective of bringing about sound and healthy relations between employers and
employees, industrial relations aim:
For Good Industrial Relations BPL established and maintains the following policies
• Recognition by the employer that the workers are a part of team working towards common
objectives.
• Fair right of the employee complaints.
• Avoidance by workers of being unduly influenced by political leaders
• Payment of reasonable wages and adequate wage structure as well as establishment of satisfactory
working conditions.
• Adoption of a policy which ensures to the worker an equitable share of the gains of increased
productivity.
• Introduction of a suitable system of on-the-job training at all levels as well as providing them with
appropriate equipment, where necessary.
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• Training in industrial relations and human relations to workers, technical staff and at all
managerial levels.
• Sufficient communication to keep the employees informed about decisions which affect their
interests.
Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has only one-registered trade union. The reason for only one trade union
is that the workers feel more united by this way. One of the purposes of trade union is to work for the
welfare of its members. In every two years, the members elect a pane of executives who work as
collective bargaining agent. The CBA place a charter of demand biannually. After a series of formal
meetings with employer a memorandum of settlement is reached. this is in operation for two-year term.
The members divide themselves into two panels before elections. Any member of both panels could be
elected in the panel of CBA.
a. To establish and maintain the economic and social rights of every member of the union.
c. To direct the relationship between the employer and the worker rightly and to maintain the
relation whenever a conflict arises between the parties through constructive negotiation.
e. To take appropriate actions on jobless, physical inability, illness, old age and death of the
members.
g. To help like workers inside and outside the country and to create fund for progressive worker
movement.
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h. To develop knowledge and responsibilities about the country and industry within the workers.
a. Every member is bound to pay his fees and or due fees prescribed by the effective committee.
The committee can determine the amount of fee up to TK. 10 and can also waive for special
cases.
b. Every member must obey the constitution and proposals of the meetings. They shouldn't do
anything that is against the interest of the union.
In addition to maintaining good relationship between employers and the workers, the trade union plays
important role on establishing and maintaining economic and social rights of every members of the
union.
In every two years the CBA meet with the representatives of the employer with their "Charter of
Demand". The demands are based on the current social and economic needs and benefits of the workers.
After a series of sittings with them, all the parties reach an agreement and the employers accepted those
demand which seems logical to them.
In order to resolve grievance of any aggrieved employee as reasonable and as quickly as possible with
the aim of minimizing conflict situations, the company maintains a systematic and open channel of
communication in line with the relevant law of the country.
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Policy and procedures
i Grievance Handling Procedure for Assistant Officer and above level of employees.
2. The following procedure is followed for resolving grievance of personnel in the Assistant Officer
and above levels.
i. Within three working days of the grievance arising, the employee concerned raised the
grievance in writing to his / her immediate supervisor.
ii. If the matter is not settled within 24 hours, following 2-I, the employee refers the matter
to the immediate superior (or Department Head, if the aggrieved employee's immediate
supervisor is the source of grievance).
iii. If the matter is still not settled within another two working days, following 2-ii, the
employee may seek assistance of the HR Manager.
iv. Upon such notification, the Manager, HR immediately arranges a meeting between the
Department Head concerned and the aggrieved employee to resolve the matter.
v. It must be emphasized that at this stage, the Department Head is responsible for seeking
the advice of the Manager, HR to a decision of the issue.
vi. If the matter remains unsettled for another two working days, the Manager. HR submits
his / her report to the HR Director whose decision on the issue will be taken as final.
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ii. The worker concerned submits his grievance to the HR Manager in writing by registered
post within fifteen days of the occurrence of the cause of such grievance.
iv. If the workers is not satisfied with such decision he / she may make a complaint to the labor court
having jurisdiction, within thirty days, from the last date under 3-iii using from I under the
section 11 of the Employment of Labor (Standing Orders) Rules 1968.
v. On receipt of any complaint under 3-iv of this procedure the court may give notice to both the
parties for hearing.
The Manager HR in consultation with the company's legal adviser presents the company's case on the
matter of the grievance and justifies the company's decision / stand.
• Welfare and amenities within the grounds of the establishment such as latrines and urinals
facilities, rest rooms, canteens, drinking water, health services etc.
• Welfare outside the establishment such as maternity benefit, social insurance
measures, medical facilities, educational facilities, housing facilities, recreation
facilities, transport to and from place of work etc.
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b. Recreational Service:
Sports and games, social events etc.
c. Facilitative Service:
Medical service, housing, educational facility, canteen, co-operative-store, transports facility etc.
Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited takes great care towards the health and safety of its people. All sorts
of safety measures are assured to keep the environment sound and pleasurable. The people are trained
for storage, dispensing, handling and using of materials. It is always monitored that concerned people
wear appropriate and designated dresses like gowns, aprons, masks, helmets etc. Because of inflexible
measure and continuous training regarding employee health and safely, not a single case of accident of
injury was recorded during the year 2003.
As a company of international reputation and excellence, BPL has set itself as a model company that
cares most for protecting and sustaining a pollution free environment. It used technology that is friendly
to the environment and complies with the environmental codes, it has created adequate facilities and
engaged appropriate processes that can naturally be employed using appropriate processes that can
naturally recycle the effluent coming out of the manufacturing plant and has kept the environmental
effects of the manufacturing activities to practicable minimum levels.
a. Safety:
i. Protection from occupational hazards
ii. Protection from fires
iii. Supervision of safely regulations
iv. Investigations of accidents.
v. Conducts safety contest.
vi. Conducts periodic inspection of machinery and equipment.
vii. Safely education.
viii. Maintains safety records and statistics.
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b. Occupational health:
i. Per-placement medical examination
ii. Periodic Physical examination
iii. First Aid
iv. Health Education
v. Sanitation
vi. Observance of constitutional rules
vii. Maintenance of Health Records and Statistics.
BPL provides their employees with a clean, safe and healthy work environment, designed to prevent
accidents and injury to health arising out of or occurring during the course of work. BPL observes all the
applicable, legally mandated standards for workplace health and safely in the countries and communities
in which they operate.
• Facility ensures that the workplace is operated in safe and healthy manner.
• Facility has a health & safely committee including facility works and management conducting
regular meetings and keeping meeting minutes.
• Within safety and security policies and rules to be posted at factory Regular communication also
conducted to employees with record.
• The facility has first aid supplies available, easily, accessible, maintained as required by law and
regularly inspected.
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• Facility to have a chemical safety program and employees trained on chemical safety.
In determining the base pay of employees, the BPL Company uses Point System Method of job
evaluation and pay determination. The company employs the Hay Job Evaluation System in evaluation
of the jobs of the organization. Usually the company either initiates or conducts salary surveys or joints
salary surveys of initiated by other companies and reliability firms every one and a half or two years.
Within the country, the BPL tries to stay in the 75th percentile in terms of top rated companies for
compensation purposed. However, it usually takes a range of 65to to 80th percentiles depending in the
nature and importance of the jobs to the company. These salary surveys help to price key and other jobs
of the company. The BPL Company does not limit itself only to country specific survey, but rather
conducts or joins in international salary surveys to key its jobs well priced in terms of international
standards and competition especially for its more demanding and required jobs.
For the workers and officer level other than basic / base pay the standard incentives and benefits are:
• Provident fund
• Gratuity
• Medical benefits
• Conveyance
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• Umbrella and shoes: for factory workers and etc.
For the managerial level other then base pay the standard incentives and benefits are:
• Telephone
• Mobile
• Conveyance
• Provident fund
• Gratuity
• Medical benefits
For "blue collar" workers such as those in the production and packing departments the following factors
are considered for appraisal and subsequent compensation.
For "while collar" workers such as those in the managerial and administrative posts the following actors
are considered for appraisal and subsequent.
BEXIMCO Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has employed the foreign experts who are paid on the basis of
international standards and sometimes-even more for highly qualified employees. These employees are
paid more benefits like company provided housing facilities, car facilities-traveling abroad,
entertainment allowances etc.
The workers in the factory are entitled to get company provided gown, and others facilities. All these are
concerted into monetary amount.
For a company- good people are like diamonds- hard to find-hard to shape-and hard to polish.
Through performance appraisal we can discover the diamonds in our company and polish them to a
dazzling luminosity.
Performance appraisal functions both as a valuable management assessment tool and superior employee
motivation weapon. This is expected to enable us to strike balance between our company's need for
qualified and trained personnel and our employees need for feedback and motivation. Performance
appraisal is logical on the job review of an employee's abilities and accomplishments.
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- Create or refine training and development programs.
Each and every personnel working in the company in any capacity and earning his bread, alongside his
individual goal lo lead a solvent life is expected to contribute adequately in participation with others to
achieve the group goal in the over-all success of the organization. It is the prime responsibilities of the
Management lo reward deserving personnel on a twin consideration of his position and achievement
(based on competence and performance).
Form the key responsibilities of the job Description of an employee the Operational Objectives are
finalized at initial stage of Performance Appraisal. The Operational Objectives will be agreed upon by
the employee and the Supervisor.
Impact % is to be mentioned and it is important in overall rating because 70% impact reflects on the
overall rating. At the time of Performance Appraisal the employee is given Employee Agenda Form not
less than 15 days prior to performance Appraisal Interview. The employee will fill up the form and thus
psychologically be prepared for the interview
For the Manager, people management is the most important job. So he has to fill up the People
Management Objective Form for overall rating.
During interview, the atmosphere between the Appraiser and the Appraisee will be congenial. Appraiser
must not play god. He has to develop criticizing skill and the criticism will be construction to develop
the person.
There will be Development form where weak point of the employee is to be mentioned and next course
of action plan is to be scheduled by the concerned department to train up the relevant person in the weak
area.
For new employee the Job Objectives are to acknowledge but Job Objectives will be ambitions and
realistic. The key responsibilities are to be made clear to the new employee during the Probation Period.
The reviewer of manager's Manager may change the Job Objectives after proper discussion.
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3.10.2: TECHNIQUES FOR APPRAISING EMPLOYEES
The following techniques are used for appraising employees in the BPL Company
• MBO
• Rating Scales in Conjunction with MBO
• Forced Choice method or Organizational Bell Curves
The employees of BPL through MBO set yearly goals. The Employees of BPL Company use MBO to
not only set objectives or goals to achieve for themselves within the broad goals of the company, but
also use these objectives as the basis for setting standards or criteria against which their performance is
evaluated. Thus, MBO serves not only as a means of mutually setting goals for employees that are to
enhance overall broad goals of the company, but also as a means to have mutually set objective (not
biased and forced standards set by top management) criteria to appraise performance.
When rating scales are used in conjunction with MBO, the ratings are done on the basis of the yearly
goals that employees have set for themselves through MBO which are clearly measurable 6 to 8
demanding goals. These goals are to be SMART or
• Specific
• Measurable
• Agreed
• Realist
• Time bound
Although SMART goals are suitable set for production-oriented works, these are adjusted to suit also the
lower, top administrative and managerial employees.
The BPL Company instead of calling the method as Forced Choice Method use the term of creating
Organizational Bell Curves. This is primarily done so that in general most of the employees perform at
an acceptable level of performance, while some perform at outstanding levels of performance and some
may perform at an average of rather low level of performance.
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3.11: DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE
To establish a disciplinary procedure built on equity in with die principles of natural justice and relevant
law of the country.
Charge-sheet, Show causes Notice and Explanation are different names of the same letter addressed to
worker within meaning of Labor Law.
The Charge-sheet is a letter (a sheet of paper) containing a charge covered by the list of misconduct
under section 17(3) of the Employment of Labor (Standing Orders) Act. 1965 served on a worker
directing him to show cause within specific period why appropriate disciplinary action should be
taken against him for alleged misconduct committed by him.
A worker may be charge-sheeted or directed to show cause or explain only when (a) specific Charge
against him has been recorded in writing (b) the charge in within the meaning of misconduct under
section 17(3) of the employment of Labor (Standing Orders) Act. 1%5, and (c) the worker has been
given not less than three days time from the receipt of the charge-sheet to show cause why appropriate
disciplinary action should not be taken against him for his misconduct, as alleged.
A worker is normally asked to explain within 4 days receipt of the charge sheet. The expression
"receipt of" is very important. This shows that his Charge Sheet must be server on the accused
workers, in order words; the worker is required to receive the charge sheet. It may so happen that a
worker being infuriated on hearing that charge has been brought against him, may refuse to receive
the charge sheet. In such ease, the same should be sent to the home address (both local and permanent)
of the worker as available in his service records, invariably under registered post. Another copy of the
charge sheet should be displayed in the Notice board. The refusal to receive the letter of charge should
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record in the presence of two witnesses, preferable unionized employees. This will be equivalent to
"Service of charge-sheet. Only then the next step of disciplinary procedure should be taken.
The accused worker may or may not reply to the charge sheet. If he replies, he
may either accept or refute the charge against him. If the management contemplates any punishment,
even a note of warning, inquiry should invariably
be conducted.
Notice of inquiry
The accused must be given in writing a "notice of inquiry" indicating the date, time
and place of inquiry with reasonable time to get him prepared to produce witnesses,
if any in his defense. The site of inquiry should normally be in the place of posting
of the accused.
Service of Notice
It must be noted that the accused receives the notice of inquiry. If the accused does
not accept the notice of Inquiry and does not appear before the Inquiry Officer, even
then the inquiry should be held ex-parte at the scheduled date, time and place.
Recording of Deposition
The process of inquiry may be broadly divided into two parts (a) prosecution and
(b) defense. The Inquiry Officer should read out the charge to the accused worker.
Depositions of the prosecution witnesses should be recorded first and those of the
defense, next. In all cases cross-examination, if preferred, should follow the
depositions.
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Cross-examination
The Inquiry officer must offer the accused opportunity to cross-examine each of the
prosecution witnesses. The prosecution witnesses include the first reporter of the
allegation, the signatory of the charge-sheet and all others who come in the picture
to all the charge against the accused. The Inquiry officer may ask question to all the
witnesses including the accused to find. There is no bar in law if the management
representative prefers to cross-examine the accused and his witnesses. But it must
be borne in mind by the Inquiry officer that cross-examination of the management
witnesses by the accused is the cardiovascular portion of the whole process of
inquiry.
Findings / Report
The harvest of the whole inquiry proceedings is the report of inquiry. The Report of inquiry should
contain brief narration and analysis of the depositions of all that appear in the scene, relevant to the
allegation.
The concluding portion of the report of inquiry is the finding of the Inquiry officer. This consists in
expressing whether, in the opinion of the Inquiry officer the charge has been conclusively proved or
not
The inquiry Officer has no business to offer any recommendation whether the accused should be
dismissed or honorably acquitted or any less punishment is awarded. Because, the same is the job of
the management and not of the Inquiry officer.
Final stage
On receiving the report of inquiry the management shall decide whether to punish the accused in any
manner or set him free. If the management is convinced with the findings of the Inquiry officer and in
case the Inquiry officer hints any scope of doubt in establishing the charge, such benefit of doubt will
go in favor of the accused. A punishment decided to be awarded must be communicated to the
concerned worker in writing.
The following categories of punishment may be inflicted on a worker consequent upon the findings of
the Inquiry officer.
• Warning
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• Suspension as measure of punishment for a period not exceeding 7
days without wages with warning.
• Discharge
• Dismissal
While awarding punishment the management should be adequately fair in its judgment and should act
in accordance with the merit of each case. The management should also lake into account the gravity
of the misconduct, the previous record, if any, of the worker and any other justifying or aggravating
circumstances that may exit. The work force should be imbued with the feeling of reliability in the
management that the latter never punishes without genuine lapse on the part of the worker.
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Training And Development Procedure At BPL:
3.2.2: TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
3.2.2.0: TRAINING
Training as it is commonly understood is different from education as such to an extent. The difference is
more in comparison to the education system. Ideally training should be a part of education but the
connotation of training is taken as that part of education, which relates to its practical aspects.
Training normally visualizes action and in addition to other things provides skills of different types in a
field of work.
The rationale and purpose of training can be understood from the following definitions.
"Training is a process of learning and de-learning which helps individuals to acquire knowledge and put
it into practice to develop and implement skills to achieve goals and objectives of the work that they are
doing. It helps people to understand their abilities and enables them to develop their potential for
optimum utilization in their field of work."
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3.2.2.2The Difference Between Training And Development:
The process of training and development are often confused. Training means learning the basic skills and
knowledge necessary for a particular job or growing up of jobs. To put it in other works, training is the
act of increasing the knowledge for doing a particular job. But development, on the other hand, means
growth of the individual in all respects. An organization works for the development of its executives or
potential executives in order to enable them to be more effective in performing the various functions of
management.
In other words, training is a short-term process by which non-managerial personnel learn technical
knowledge and skills for a definite purpose. Development, on the other hand, is a long-term process by
which managerial personnel learn conceptual and theoretical knowledge for general purpose.
The usual duration of training is of six months. Some of the training in given in the probationary period
and some is after the conformance.
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Usual topics of the training programs are
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Chapter: 4
4.0. Findings:
Beximco is one of the leading pharmaceutical company in Bangladesh and it has got well-structured HR
department, which concerns about all the other departments of the organization. Beximco Pharma has
got well-managed HR department, which efficiently works from recruiting employees to measuring their
performance. Beximco Pharma is concerned about its employee’s rights as well. It has a got a labor
union inside the company. The incentive packages of the company are well matched with the employee’s
performance. The salary structure of the organization is satisfying for all the levels of employees of the
organization. When ever the company feels that there is a need of training the company immediately
sends its employees to the training program. Sometimes the employees are sent abroad for the necessary
training for welfare of the company and for the employee development as well.
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Chapter: 5
5.0. RECOMMENDATION
In the recommendation part I can only say that, Beximco has got a well structured HR department which
is performing all the necessary HR duties and responsibilities but they need to hire more skilled and
qualified people. They focus more on internal recruitment rather than external recruitment. That’s why
they are not getting the desired and well performing managers. My suggestion would be to hire well
qualified people rather being biased regarding hiring of employees.
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Chapter:6
6.0 CONCLUSION
BEXIMCO Pharmaceuticals Limited has very good planning of human resource, which were matched
with the company's strategic directions. In fact, depending upon the needs BEXIMCO Pharmaceuticals
Limited even resorted to hire foreign expatriates. The screening and evaluating methods for recruitment
and selection of general employees and managerial people were seen to be most exact for BEXIMCO
Pharmaceutical Limited so that only the best potential gets the chance to become the resources of the
company.
The labor relations process in the BEXIMCO Pharmaceuticals Limited is constructive. The relationship
between union and management is quite good. The levels of employee commitment were found to be
high, and people in the organization are very satisfied with the environment and maintenance functions
of the organization.
But it is observed that the company doesn't encourage its employees to practice a law full grievance
procedure, in this lime of organic and open system organization employees grievance should be more
welcomed and evaluated.
This also observed that most workers have little or no knowledge about formal labor laws. The trade
union should take appropriate steps to improve knowledge of workers in this regard.
Very soon The Labor Code which is becoming a law for the whole of Bangladesh replacing about 50
Labor Laws of the country.
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Bibliography
1. http://www.beximco-pharma.com/
2. Beximco Pharmaceuticals company Ltd.
3. Journals etc.
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