...Pakistan and Bangladesh) have made significant economic progress in the last two decades and are well on track to becoming major regional or even world economic powerhouses. In the recent years, many MNCs are increasingly putting more attention to the emerging. Asian countries for competitive advantage. One classic example is China. With a population of more than 1.3 billion China is predicted to be the largest economy in the world by next 20 years surpassing United States (UN Report 2007). China has become the manufacturing and investment hub for many MNCs. Despite huge success for most of the MNCs, many already failed in doing business in China due to their management’s inability to manage their human resources appropriately. Taking the Chinese lead like the tiger economies in Asia, Bangladesh is also emerging as a dynamic and significant economic player in South Asia. Bangladesh is one of the pioneers in the region for economic liberalization. It has adopted the best policies of South Asia to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Doing business in Bangladesh is much easier than most of the developing countries. A recent report entitled “Doing Business in 2007: Creating Jobs” published jointly by World Bank and IFC placed Bangladesh in 68th position in terms of easy of doing business among 175 countries (World Bank, 2007). This places Bangladesh ahead of other countries in the region such as India (88th) and China (128th). In 2005 total FDI inflow into Bangladesh increased...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Unilever is an Anglo-Dutch company, with a history of grand operation, Today it owns most of the world's consumer product brands in food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. Unilever Bangladesh Ltd is one of the world’s most successful consumer goods manufacturing companies with local manufacturing facilities. Unilever brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, they've grown into one of the world's most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, in over 190 countries, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product. Unilever Bangladesh Limited has five departments to carry out all their organizational functions. This report is designed in six chapters. Initially the opening words about the report were described in the first segment titled “Introduction”. The next segment “Overview of Unilever” contains the history of Unilever, Unilever Bangladesh Ltd, and Organizational structure. The next chapters are on firm organizing, Industry Analysis, CSR Activities, Innovative Managerial Practices And at last is the conclusion of this report Table of Contents Contents | page | 1. Introduction…………… | | 1.1. Unilever Global | 1 | 1.2. History of Unilever | 1-2 | 1.3. Unilever Bangladesh Limited | 2 | 1.4. Unilever Today | 2-3 | 1.5. Mission | 3 | 1.6. Vision | 3 | 1.7. Strategies followed by Unilever | 3-5 | 1.8. Consumers | 5-6 | 1.9. Products offered | 7-9 | | | 2. Firm...
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...Term paper On "RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PROCESS" IN UNILEVER BANGLADESH LIMITED ` [ MGT-341 Human Resource management "RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PROCESS" IN UNILEVER BANGLADESH LIMITED Prepared for Mahnaz Akhter Lecturer School of business Prepared By Group 1 Sec: B Semester: Fall-2013 23th December 2013 To Mahnaz Akhter Lecturer School of business University of Information Technology and Science (UITS) Subject: Submitted the Term paper of MGT-341 Dear Madam It is indeed a great pleasure for us to be able to hand over the result of our hardship of the group Term paper on RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PROCESS IN UNILEVER BANGLADESH LIMITED. This report is the result of the knowledge. This has been acquired from the respective course. We tried our level best for preparing this report. The information of this report is mainly based on our knowledge and Internet information. We fervently hope that you will find this plan worth reading. Please feel free for any query or clarification that you would like us explain. Hope you will appreciate our hard work and excuse the minor errors. Thanking you for your cooperation. Sincerely Group 1 Name&ID Signetures Rahat a jan 12310577 Jinia Afrin 12410291 Abdia Sultana ...
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...HR Practices of Unilever Bangladesh Recruitment and selection Training and development Performance management Labor relation Employee relation Incentives and bonus 3.4 Recruitment and Selection Process Recruiting is the process of searching the potential job candidates in order to fill up the vacant position of the organization and selection is the process of choosing the best candidate among the available candidates. The candidates who are successfully perform the job. Unilever Bangladesh follows both the internal and external sources of recruitment. In case of internal source they mainly follow – promotion, transfer and job rotation and in case of external source they follow – advertisement, campus recruitment and other organizations. In case of recruitment and selection Unilever Bangladesh considers the following process: Need assessment Unilever Bangladesh take need assessment to identify in which sector, it is needed to recruit the employee for achieving their target and goals. In their assessment they have to realize that they need human resource (HR) in the following situation- vacancy in existing post(s), market expansion, increase in production capacity, launching new product, introducing new system. Checking the recruiting options Internal Current employees are a major source of recruits the employees. Internal source are included- promotion, transfer, job rotations. External When job opening can not be filled internally...
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...1. Introduction: If the adage 'two heads are better than one' applies to business, then certainly Unilever is a prime example. The food and consumer products giant actually has two parent companies: Unilever PLC, based in the United Kingdom, and Unilever N.V., based in The Netherlands. The two companies, which operate virtually as a single corporation, are run by a single group of directors and are linked by a number of agreements. Unilever the Company Formed in 1930 considers itself the second largest consumer goods firm in the world, trailing only Philip Morris Companies Inc., and produces numerous brand name foods, cleaning products, and personal care items. About 52 percent of revenues are generated in the foods sector; brands include Imperial and Promise margarines, Lipton tea, Ragú foods, Lawry's seasonings, Breyers ice cream, and Birds Eye and Gorton's frozen foods. One-quarter of sales come from the personal care area; brands include Caress and Dove soap, Pears and Pond's skin care products, Degree, Fabergé, and Sure deodorants, Suave and Salon Selective hair care items, Close-Up, Mentadent, and Pepsodent oral care products, and Calvin Klein, Elizabeth Arden, and Elizabeth Taylor prestige fragrances&mdash well as such miscellaneous brands as Q-Tips and Vaseline. Unilever's third major sector is that of cleaning products, which is responsible for about 22 percent of turnover; brands include Wisk and All laundry detergents, Snuggle and Final Touch fabric softeners, and...
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...Can soups be a healthy snack in Bangladesh?? Can soups be a healthy snack in Bangladesh? With the winter season coming up Brand Managers at Unilever want to further strengthen Knorr in Bangladesh. But the most important question that remains for them is how they make top end unhealthy evening snackers consume soup instead of the shingara, samosas and burgers of the world. It has been 9 months since Unilever launched Knorr Soups and entered into the savory category. Given the size of the soup industry in Bangladesh, Unilever has placed a lot of emphasis on Chicken Mushroom and Chicken Ginger and the vegetarian variant Tomato. Each pack contains enough soup to serve two people. Knorr was launched with the most important proposition – the establishing the Knorr brand in the minds of consumers and pave a way for the entry of other product extensions in the future. Soup was launched at a time when a market, although small, was growing consumers at a were rapid pace, where the experience of real ingredients in its soups. Knorr soups contain real bits of chicken and vegetables that could be both visibly seen as well as tasted during experiencing goodness of soup at their homes and including it as a part of a more regular diet. The market was predominantly run by Nestlé’s Maggi brand which owned almost the complete market. Knorr was launched after extensive market research into the soup habits of Bangladeshi consumers. A qualitative research was also done on different...
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...North South University School of Business Project on: HRM issues of Unilever Bangladesh Limited Course: Mgt-351, Sec-8 Submitted To: Naureen Khan Submitted By: 1. Mohammad Maruf Ahmed ID 1130564030 2. Md.Khairul Amin Bhuiyan 3. Anirban Muhury 1310476030 4. H.M. Tanjim 1220215030 Work done by members Name | work | Pages | Mohammad Maruf Ahmed | Executive summery to selection process | 3-16 | Md.Khairul Amin Bhuiyan | Orientation, Training and Development | 17-20 | Anirban Muhury | Appraisal and compensation method | 21-25 | H.M. Tanjim | Grievance and recommendation | 25-30 | Table of content Content | Page | Introduction | 4 | Unilever Bangladesh | 5 | Management structure of Unilever | 7 | Recruitment | 10 | Selection | 14 | Training and Development | 18 | Appraisals and Compensation | 21 | Grievance | 24 | Recommendation | 28 | Conclusion | 30 | Reference | 31 | Executive Summary This report provides an analysis of Human Resource Management issues of the world’s leading fast moving consumer goods company Unilever Bangladesh Limited. In this competitive business era, there are so many strategy related to Human Resource (HR). We tried our best to prove that the UBL utilizes those strategies in order to exploit its human resource. We tried to demonstrate...
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...Sultana |2009-1-10-029 | |Md. Tanvir Hossain |2009-2-10-344 | |Md. Towhidur Rahman |2009-1-10-152 | Principles of Management Course Code: Mgt101 SUBMISSION DATE: 11August, 2010 East West University Transmittal Message 16 August 2010 Course Instructor, Dr. Nazrul Islam, MGT-101, Sec-2, Principles of Management East West University. Subject: Letter of Transmittal. Dear Sir, With great pleasure we submit our project report on “Analysis of Planning for Surf Excel in Bangladesh” that you have assigned to us as an important requirement of the MGT-101 course. We have found the study to be quite interesting, beneficial and insightful. We have tried our level best to prepare an effective and creditable report. We honestly hope that our analysis will help to give idea of management planning of a business in the real world. We hope you will find this report worth all the labor we have put in it. Yours Sincerely, Md. Towhidur Rahman Jaheda Sultana Md. Tanvir Hossain Table of contents: Acknowledgement …………………………………………………….5 Executive summery……………………………………………………6 Introduction……………………………………………………………7 Objectives……………………………………………………………...8 Research...
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...Economic Environment: Unilever Bangladesh Limited Unilever Bangladesh Limited, an undisputed giant maintaining unprecedented trust and loyalty among its consumers since 1964. Although Lever Brothers India limited was conducting operation throughout unified Indian subcontinent up until the The Partition in 1947; and Lever Brothers Pakistan limited till the liberation war of 1971, the Unilever Bangladesh Limited truly embodied the essence of this country in 1971. The company was already a successful enterprise; and like any successful company, it grasped the whole concept and characteristics of Bangladeshi economy: people’s income, their spending pattern and their purchasing power. Let’s quickly familiar with the Bangladeshi economy. First of all, as I mentioned earlier that Bangladesh is a developing country and it has the 8th largest population on earth. It is facing many challenges of 21th century. Despite all that, it has constant economic growth. According to CNN Money, Bangladesh ranked 5th on their GDP growth rate chart. Capitalizing on the situation, Unilever Bangladesh Limited devices its strategies and goals accordingly. Affordable product line with great value for money: this is the whole business perspective in a nutshell of Unilever. Lifebuoy, Lux, Dove, Sunsilk, Clear, Pepsodent, CloseUp, Fair & Lovely, Pond’s, Rexona and Axe in personal hygiene section; Surf Excel, Wheel, Rin Power White and Vim filling the needs of household section; and Pureit, Brooke Bond...
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...Term Paper on "Orientation and training in Bangladesh [in your organization]" EMIS-539 Human Resource Management Submitted to Mr. Md. Abul Kashem Associate Professor Department of Management Information Systems University of Dhaka Submitted by Md. Kamal Sharif 61222-15-039 Submission date 18.12.12 Table of Contents Introduction....................................................................................3 Orientation......................................................................................3 Training Needs................................................................................4 Types of training.............................................................................4 Training methods............................................................................5 Uniliver Bangladesh Limited..........................................................6 Uniliver Today................................................................................7 Ways/method of training.................................................................9 Introduction: Once employees are selected, they must be prepared to do their jobs, which is when orientation and training come in. Orientation means providing new employees with basic information about the...
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... 1.1 Introduction Unilever is a multi-national corporation, formed of Anglo-Dutch parentage that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. Unilever employs nearly 180,000 people and had worldwide revenue of almost €40 billion in 2005. Unilever is a dual-listed company consisting of Unilever NV in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Unilever PLC in London, England. This arrangement is similar to that of Reed Elsevier and that of Royal Dutch Shell prior to their unified structure. Both Unilever companies have the same directors and effectively operate as a single business. The current non-executive Chairman of Unilever N.V. and PLC is Michael Treschow while Patrick Cescau is Group Chief Executive, who will retire at the end of 2014. Mr Paul Polman will succeed Patrick Cescau as Group Chief Executive. The company is widely listed on the world's stock exchanges. 1.2 Origin of report Since practical orientation is an integral part of the MBA program, I tried to expose real life performance of Unilever by preparing this report. To prepare this report I have come across with different information of the Unilever. From the collected information I understand the company’s activities in the market as Unilever as in their internal preparation for marketing and others activities. I expect that this report will fulfill the requirement of MBA program and provide a clear idea about the Unilever activities and other...
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...Introduction Unilever is a multi-national corporation, formed of Anglo-Dutch parentage that owns many of the world’s consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. Unilever employs nearly 180,000 people and had worldwide revenue of almost €40 billion in 2005. Unilever is a dual-listed company consisting of UnileverNV in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Unilever PLC in London, England. This arrangement is similar to that of Reed Elsevier and that of Royal Dutch Shell prior to their unified structure. Both Unilever companies have the same directors and effectively operate as a single business. The current non-executive Chairman of Unilever N.V. and PLC is Michael Treschow while Patrick Cescau is Group Chief Executive, who will retire at the end of 2008. Mr Paul Polman will succeed Patrick Cescau as Group Chief Executive. The company is widely listed on the world’s stock exchanges. 1.2 Origin of report Since practical orientation is an integral part of the BBA program, I tried to expose real life performance of Uniliver by preparing this report. To prepare this report I have come across with different information of the Uniliver. From the collected information I understand the company’s activities in the market as Uniliverll as in their internal preparation for marketing and others activities. I expect that this report will fulfill the requirement of BBA program and provide a clear idea about the Uniliver activities and other multi-national...
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...is a section of the Unilever Annual Report & Accounts and Form 20-F 2003 provided to Unilever's shareholders. It does not contain sufficient information to allow a full understanding of the results of the Unilever Group and the state of affairs of Unilever N.V., Unilever PLC or the Unilever Group. For further information the Unilever Annual Report & Accounts and Form 20-F 2003 should be consulted. Certain sections of the Unilever Annual Report & Accounts and Form 20-F 2003 have been audited. Sections that have been audited are set out on pages 73 to 125, 131 to 147 and 149 to 150. The auditable part of the Directors' Remuneration report as set out on page 68 has also been audited. The maintenance and integrity of the Unilever website is the responsibility of the Directors; the work carried out by the auditors does not involve consideration of these matters. Accordingly, the auditors accept no responsibility for any changes that may have occurred to the financial statements since they were initially placed on the website. Legislation in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions. Disclaimer Except where you are a shareholder, this material is provided for information purposes only and is not, in particular, intended to confer any legal rights on you. The Annual Report & Accounts and Form 20-F does not constitute an invitation to invest in Unilever shares. Any decisions...
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...Year | CATEGORIES/ Other Awards | Winner/Merit Awardee | Awardees | Name of Project | Country | 2003 | Environmental Excellence | Winner | Nestle Philippines | Greening The Supply Chain | Philippines | | | Merit Awardee | Unilever Indonesia | The Sustainable Clean Brantas River Program | Indonesia | | | Merit Awardee | Mass Transit Railway Corporation | Sustainability Report 2001 & 2002 | Hong Kong | | Support & Improvement of Education | Winner | Tat Consultancy Services | Adult Literacy Program | India | | | Merit Awardee | Coca Cola Foundation, Inc. | Creative Writing Workshop on Children’s Books | Philippines | | | Merit Awardee | Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Corp. Phils. (HSBC) | Model of Excellence School in Esteban Abada | Philippines | | Best CSR Policies | Winner | Union Cement Corporation | Union Social Development and Management Program | Philippines | | | Merit Awardee | Unocal Thailand | The Social Responsibility Ambassadors Program | Thailand | | | Merit Awardee | Central Azucarera Don Pedro | The Community Development Program | Philippines | | Poverty Alleviation | Winner | Hindalco Industries | Integrated Rural Poverty Alleviation Program | India | | | Merit Awardee | Allen & Overy | Supporting “Helpers from Domestic Helpers” | Hong Kong | | | Merit Awardee | Seylan Bank | Comprehensive Microfinance for Micro-sector Empowerment | Sri Lank | | Special Achievement Award | Winner | Philippine Business...
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...Analysis of Unilever Bangladesh: Introducing Unilever: 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product. From feeding your family to keeping your home clean and fresh, our brands are part of everyday life. Life partner: With 400 brands spanning 14 categories of home, personal care and foods products, no other company touches so many people’s lives in so many different ways. Its brand portfolio has made us leaders in every field in which we work. It ranges from much-loved world favorites including Lipton, Knorr, Dove and Omo, to trusted local brands such as Blue Band and Suave. From comforting soups to warm a winter’s day, to sensuous soaps that make you feel fabulous, our products help people get more out of life. We’re constantly enhancing our brands to deliver more intense, rewarding product experiences. We invest €1 billion every year in cutting edge research and development, and have five laboratories around the world that explore new thinking and techniques to help develop our products. Continuous development: Consumer research plays a vital role in our brands’ development. We’re constantly developing new products and developing tried and tested brands to meet changing tastes, lifestyles and expectations. And our strong roots in local markets also mean we can respond to consumers at a local level. By helping improve people’s diets and daily lives, we can help them keep healthier for longer, look good and give their children the best start in...
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