Challenges and opportunities of organizational behavior are massive and

rapidly changing for improving productivity and meeting business goals.

Although the problems with organizations and the solutions over the ages
have not really changed, the emphasis and surrounding environmental context
certainly have changed.

Although the resulting lean and mean organizations offered some short-run
benefits in terms of lowered costs and improved productivity, if they
continued to do business, as usual, they would not be able to meet current or
future challenges.

Main challenges and opportunities of organizational behavior are:

1. Improving Peoples’ Skills.

2. Improving Quality and Productivity.

3. Total Quality Management (TQM).

4. Managing Workforce Diversity.

5. Responding to Globalization.

6. Empowering People.

7. Coping with Temporariness.

8. Stimulating Innovation and Change.

9. Emergence of E-Organization & E-Commerce.

10. Improving Ethical Behavior.

11. Improving Customer Service.

12. Helping Employees Balance Work-Life Conflicts.

13. Flattening World.

14. Work In Networked Organization

Improving Quality and Productivity

Quality is the extent to which the customers or users believe the product or
service surpasses their needs and expectations.

ACI Quality & Productivity Policy

One of our important visions is to provide products and services of high and
consistent quality, ensuring value for money to our customers.

I. To attain the Vision ACI will:

Aim to achieve business excellence by understanding, accepting, meeting and

exceeding customer expectations.

II. Follow International Standards on Quality Management System to

ensure consistent quality of products and services to achieve
customer satisfaction.
III. ACI will also meet all national and regulatory requirements relating to
its current businesses and ensure that current Good Manufacturing
Practice is recommended by World Health Organization is followed
 for its pharmaceutical operations and conform to all other guidelines
and best practices relating to its other businesses.
IV. Commit itself to quality as the prime consideration in all its business
decisions. All employees of ACI follow documented procedures to
ensure compliance with quality standards.
V. Develop a pool of human resources of the Company to their full
potential through regular training and participation in seeking
continuous improvement of the Quality Management System.

In order to improve quality and productivity, they are implementing programs

like total quality management and reengineering programs that require
extensive employee involvement.

Total Quality Management (TQM)

The components of TQM are for ACI:

(a) An intense focus on the customer

 Aim to achieve business excellence by understanding, accepting,
meeting and exceeding customer expectations.

Follow International Standards on Quality Management System to ensure

consistent quality of products and services to achieve customer satisfaction

(b) Concern for continual improvement

Develop a pool of human resources of the Company to their full potential

through regular training and participation in seeking continuous improvement
of the Quality Management System.

(b) Improvement in the quality of everything the organization does,

(c) Commit itself to quality as the prime consideration in all its
business decisions. All employees of ACI follow documented procedures
to ensure compliance with quality standards.
Managing Workforce Diversity

This refers to employing different categories of employees who are

heterogeneous in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, relation, community,
physically disadvantaged, elderly people, etc.

IN ACI diversity has become a proactive concept. ACI business icons are now
going to think that diversity has important bottom-line outputs.
ACI believes that workforce can be a good competitive strength because
various opinions can generate distinctive and creative way out to solve many
critical problems which in turn may boost up organizational performance.
Managers of various public and private organizations need to recognize,
foresee and handle this remarkable character of workforce.

Responding to Globalization

Today’s business is mostly market-driven; wherever the demands exist

irrespective of distance, locations, climatic conditions, the business

ACI operations are expanded to gain their market share and to remain in the
top rank, etc. ACI’s business operations are no longer to a particular locality
or region.

Company’s products or services are spreading across the nations using mass
communication, the internet, faster transportation, etc.

Empowering People
The main issue is delegating more power and responsibility to the lower level
cadre of employees and assigning more freedom to make choices about their
schedules, operations, procedures and the method of solving their work-
related problems.
 ACI believes that encouraging the employees to participate in the work-
related decision will sizable enhance their commitment to work.

Managers are doing considerably further by allowing employees full control of

their work.

Training activities of ACI is focused on transforming its human capital to

achieve business excellence by increasing the bandwidth of ACI workforce.

ACI adopt best technology based modules, methodologies, facilities, in-house

and external faculties/trainers to ensure the best return from human
development investments.

Corporate Values of ACI are embedded in the process of designing,

developing and delivering each activity of Training Department throughout
the organization.

Coping with Temporariness

In recent times, the product life cycles are slimming, the methods of
operations are improving, and fashions are changing very fast. In those days,
the managers needed to introduce major change programs once or twice a
decade.

Today, change is an ongoing activity for most managers.

The concept of continuous improvement implies constant change.

In yesteryears, there used to be a long period of stability and occasionally

interrupted by a short period of change, but at present, the change process is
an ongoing activity due to competitiveness in developing new products and
services with better features.

Everyone in the ACI faces today is one of permanent temporariness. The actual
jobs that workers perform are in a permanent state .
So, workers need to continually update their knowledge and skills to perform
new job requirements.

Stimulating Innovation and Change

Today’s successful organizations must foster innovation and be proficient in
the art of change; otherwise, they will become candidates for extinction in due
course of time and vanished from their field of business.

Victory will go to those organizations that maintain flexibility, continually

improve their quality, and beat the competition to the market place with a
constant stream of innovative products and services.

ACI succeeded by creating variation of their product with less money by

putting their products to market quicker than the bigger competitors.

Emergence of E-Organization & E-Commerce

It refers to the business operations involving the electronic mode of
transactions. It encompasses presenting products on websites and filling the
order.

The vast majority of articles and media attention given to using the Internet in
business are directed at online shopping.

Leading lifestyle e-commerce platform of Bangladesh – Bagdoom.com and

Advanced Chemical Industries (ACI) Limited, one of the leading conglomerates
in Bangladesh, signed an MOU together for the sale of consumer electronics
products of ACI on Bagdoom.com website.

Leading lifestyle e-commerce platform of Bangladesh – Bagdoom.com and

Advanced Chemical Industries (ACI) Limited, one of the leading conglomerates
in Bangladesh, signed an MOU together for the sale of consumer electronics
products of ACI on Bagdoom.com website

Improving Ethical Behavior

The complexity in business operations is forcing the workforce to face ethical
dilemmas, where they are required to define right and wrong conduct in order
to complete their assigned activities.

Ethics is concerned with moral issues and choices deal with right and wrong
behavior.

Improving Customer Service

OB can contribute to improving organizational performance by showing drat
how employees’ attitude and behavior are associated with customer
satisfaction.

In that case, ACI be the first production-oriented by using technological

opportunities to upgrade the customer service.

They are applying more effort to make the customer more satisfied with their
actual basic needs,

Helping Employees Balance Work-Life Conflicts

The typical employee in the 1960s or 1970s showed up at the workplace
Monday through Friday and did his or her job 8 or 9-hour chunk of time.

The workplace and hours were clearly specified. That’s no longer true for a
large segment of today’s workforce.

A number of forces have contributed to blurring the lines between employees’

work life and personal life.

Working In Networked organization

The networked organization is one that is connected together by informal networks
and the demands of the task, rather than a formal organizational structure. The
network organization prioritizes its “soft structure” of relationships, networks,
teams, groups and communities rather than reporting lines.

This organizations can either get into a partnership for a particular venture.
Organization can hire others to handle one or more of its functions (outsourcing), for
marketing, production, sales and so on.

Outsourcing is done by organizations pursuing network structure. ACI also

covered Functional Organizational Structure or Divisional Organizational
Structure by pursuing network structure.