"Shop floor recruitment - initiative to increase the factory manpower" of British American Tobacco Bangladesh

Abstract

The internship report is on British American Tobacco Bangladesh, the leader in cigarette manufacturing companies in Bangladesh. It is thought to be an ideal organization for the application of the knowledge that a graduate gains during his/her four years study period. In addition, as BATB is a company with multifarious challenges of tobacco manufacturing industry, a graduate can also apply various theories and can be innovative. Internship gave me an opportunity to encounter real time work experience in the Human Resources Division of British American Tobacco Bangladesh .This report will give an overview on organizing recruitment procedure and some idea how the Human Resource Division is working for British American Tobacco. It will give an idea on how tasks are executed from the backend to welcome a new joiner. In the report, I have presented all the activities and discussed the tasks in detail that I had to perform during my internship tenure. The tasks assigned to me were highly confidential and was simultaneously performed according to the instructions given by the management. Basic everyday work has been explained for better understanding. This report in brief will also give an idea about human resources division of British American Tobacco Bangladesh and show, how different services besides recruiting are provided. As per management decision my tasks were arranging and organizing all the recruitment starting from assisting my line manager while screening CV’s to the moment when a candidate sits for the interview to note down the candidate’s response Situation-wise explanations have been presented for better understanding. Brief description of the divisions has been given to give an overview on British American Tobacco Bangladesh. As the report is based on the tasks performed so description of the tasks has been explained for clarity. This report is on organizing recruitment and the daily activities of what I have performed are focused. This report also explains all the new things that I have learned from the organization. It focuses on the importance of the exposure of internship. The report also shows the difference between textual learning and on- job learning. At the end, it also tells that both the factors are equally important and closely related to achieve success at work. This report has been organized into six major separate sections. Firstly in chapter-1, introduction about the report and the objective, methodology and limitations of the report has been described. Secondly in chapter-2, the organization part where the overview, the mission, vision, history of the company is discussed along with the functions of different departments. After that in chapter-3 I discussed my job responsibilities in BATB and the observation and my experience. The chapter-4 is the Findings and analysis of the project part, which is about the Shop Floor Recruitment, I was attached with from the beginning of my internship period where I tried to give a overview how BATB plans a new Manufacturing Floor’s Manpower and recruit the potential manpower. In this part according to the project perspective I have come up with some recommendation analyzing the planning and real life experience. The chapter-5 is all about the overall recommendation and conclusion.