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The recruitment and selection process at R. A. K. Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited
No full textThis internship report is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of Internship report.Includes bibliographical references (page 44).The ceramics industry is an intensifying manufacturing sector in Bangladesh. Possessed by Tajma Ceramic Industries, it was a small industrial plant for porcelain tableware. Peoples Ceramic Industries, previously Pakistan Ceramic Industries, started production in 1966. One of the major ceramic manufacturers in Bangladesh, Monno Ceramics, was launched in 1985 to produce porcelain tableware with other ceramic items later. The ceramics industry sector has attracted foreign investment. Ceramic products have been exported to more than 45 countries. Specializing in high-quality ceramic wall and floor tiles, gres porcellanato, and sanitary ware, RAK Ceramics uses more than 10,000 production models (tiles) and 13,000 design pieces (sanitary ware), with new designs being added every week to its portfolio. RAK Ceramics is the world’s first company to launch Luminous, Golden or Silver Glazed tiles and the Antimicrobial, a super Specialty tile for the hospital industry. RAK Ceramics is a ISO 9001: 2008 & ISO 14001: 2004 certified organization. RAK Ceramics has been awarded the NATA (National Association of Testing Authorities) accreditation from Australia that certifies RAK Ceramics Sanitary Ware Testing Laboratory is incompliance with NATA requirements to perform specific tests operate in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025. RAK Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited is the country’s largest and most respected tiles and sanitary ware brand. The Company was incorporated in Bangladesh on 26 November, 1998 as a private limited company under the Companies Act, 1994 as a UAE-Bangladesh joint venture project. RAK Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited is the market leader with around 25% market share in tiles sector and around 65% market share in sanitary ware sector based on production capacity. The Company complies with ISO 13006:1998 (E), the latest international standard for ceramic tile; locally known as BDS ISO 13006:2006. The Company’s sanitary ware complies with the quality criteria of BDS 1162:2012. As an intern of R. A. K. Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited, I was assigned to Human Resource and Admin Department of R. A. K. Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited and Also given all the flexibility to work independently in the R. A.K Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited. And my duty was Updating of personal file, CV Data entry, Joining the selected employees and interns, Processing, Complete employee Database and report to the General manager and many others. Recruitment is the procedure of gathering of the human resource for the available position of the organization. The outcome is poll of applicants from which new employees are selected. The probationary period for the permanent employee in RAK Ceramics (Bangladesh) limited is preserved as per Bangladesh Labor ACT 2006 subject to certain exception. There are some stages of Recruitment by which an applicant is recruited at RAK Ceramics (BD) Limited. They are Manpower Requisition (MR), Job Analysis, Searching and CV screening. The organization take employees through internal and external sources. For the external sources they use man power consultant firms, advertising firms, website advertisement, employee referrals etc. CV Screening is also called short listing. The process is directed by the Human Resource Department and Respected Department. Selection process means putting the suitable and qualified candidates on the accurate kind of job. By selecting exact candidate for the required job, organization will also save time and money. Proper screening of applicants takes place during selection process. In R. A. K. Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited there are two process in selection which are: Pre Selection Process, it includes Interviews, Approval of the selected candidates: Medical Checkup of candidates: Appointment of a candidate. In
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R. A. K. Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited Interview are taken in preliminary stage and final stage. After this comes the post selection process that includes: Submitting the joining letter, Orientation of the Employee, Providing Identity Card to Newly hired employee, Confirmation of Job. After doing my internship for three months in R. A. K. Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited I have observed their recruitment and selection process and I have found the following findings about the selection process of R. A. K. Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited. A. K. Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited mainly emphases on both internal and external sources for recruitment. Internally the organization releases the positions of the job and announces it to all current employees. Based on candidate’s skills, educational background, experience of work candidate can be recruited in the organization. For external sources the company does advertisement, provide online advertisement, takes assistance from the employment agencies (only for high level post where foreign job seeker are applied), arrange internship for the students, take employee from personal contact. R. A. K. Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited has a structured and standard selection process. Once the recruitment and selection process is completed then the personnel are appointed base on their job description. The organization fills the vacant position by promoting the present employees (if the employee is suitable). R. A. K. Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited is one of the largest joint venture company in the ceramic sector of Bangladesh. They value their human resource as an asset, so the company mainly focuses on internal sources to fulfill the vacant position in the company and keep their employee satisfaction high. According to me R. A. K. Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited should use Campus placements as a source of recruitment. By focusing on Campus Placements Company can attract qualified personnel for vacant jobs in the organization. After closely observe the overall recruitment and selection process of R. A. K. Ceramics (Bangladesh) Limited is one of the best joint venture in ceramic sector of Bangladesh and they are doing very good in their business and also their recruitment process is top class. For entry level post they can use written interview but for the mid and top level vacancy written test could be prohibited rather they can put emphasize on the experience and working skills. The company can take interns in regular basis as it helps them (interns) to understand the real life working environment as well as the company can hire them after the intern period which will help the organization to lessen cost.Iftekhar AlamB. Business Administratio
TRIBAL ELDERLY IN URBAN INDIA: A STUDY ON THE INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
No full textThere are no other age groups increasing rapidly than elderly, which is projected to be doubled by 2050. Such demographic transition is witnessed in many developing countries including India. It is also indicated that the elderly population including the tribal elderly are increasingly dwelling in urban areas due to migration or their native areas becoming urbanized. The purpose of this research is to understand the intergenerational relationship among tribal societies dwelling in urban areas. This paper argues that elderly as like other age groups, do not constitute a single homogeneous category while marking the shift from single dimension paradigm of studying aged individual to multi-level approach i.e. ‘urban-elderly-tribes’, in understanding the intergenerational relationships. In total six Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), with fifty elderly tribes (aged 60 – 82 years) comprising of three FGDs at nearby center of the town and three FGDs at outskirts of the town were conducted to understand the location centric perspective of the respondents emanating from differential access to resources and benefits. The data gathered went through several phases of interpretative thematic analysis. Subsequently, three main themes were identified, “impact of urbanization,” “better life than before” and “cultural degradation”. The participants perceived that there has been a disruption in intergenerational relationship in contemporary times owing to shift from socio-cultural approach to economic approach to development. This study draws attention towards tribal elderly perspectives on intergenerational behaviors and relationships for researchers, academicians, practitioners and policy makers to design their interventions accordingly
Building Resilience of Urban Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh
No full textAbstractThis paper is derived from a pilot project implemented by Habitat for Humanity during 2012-2013, where the author was a technical advisor. Rapid urbanisation and the growth of slums in developing countries such as Bangladesh has led to slum upgrading as an approach to address the problems of the urban poor. The project here was in essence such a slum upgrading project, targeted at an urban slum settlement called Talab Camp in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where the residents comprised an ethnic Bihari community. Dhaka is a rapidly urbanising megacity in one of the world's most densely populated and poorest countries, where almost 30% of its more than 14 million population lives in slums and faces the impacts of a range of hazards, hence the need for building resilience. The project began with a study of this urban context to identify the challenges and opportunities for building resilience in slums there, followed by a sequence of inter-related activities. This consisted of provision of training to local professionals on concepts and applications of Urban Resilience and toolkits for Risk Assessment and Action Planning; a Community Based Participatory Risk Assessment (CBPRA) to identify the inter-related hazards and vulnerabilities affecting Talab Camp, supplemented by a survey of city level institutional actors; and a set of pilot activities guided by the above and Community Action Planning (CAP) workshops, together with community capacity building and developing community organisations. Three main risks were prioritised for addressing in the pilot activities – inadequate drainage, inadequate waste disposal and poor sanitation, and thereby focused on WaSH (drainage, community toilets, water supply, and water purification), solid waste management (household and community level waste collection and disposal), housing improvement (plinth-raising above flood level) and awareness raising (cleaning event and billboards). The pilot activities also included extensive training and capacity building activities. A long-term Community Development Plan (CDP) was also developed in parallel to the pilot activities. The project faced a number of challenges in terms of local expectations, capacity building, and working in a megacity like Dhaka. A number of key lessons were learnt including the time required for adequate community consultation and participation, and unpredictability of political circumstances, in addition to a set of other lessons that can inform future such projects
A MEAN-FIELD MODELING FRAMEWORK INCORPORATING INTRAGRANULAR ORIENTATION SPREADS TO IMPROVE MODELING OF DEFORMATION TWINNING, RECRYSTALLIZATION AND GEOMETRICALLY NECESSARY DISLOCATIONS
No full textMetallic components go through a complex sequence of deformation processes during manufacturing. The purpose of a structural component dictates the use of specific metallic material with a given set of mechanical properties. In order to predict material behavior and microstructural evolution during deformation on a computer rather than in a workshop, computationally efficient models have been developed over the past several decades. Mean-field plasticity models like viscoplastic self-consistent (VPSC) and elastoplastic self-consistent (EVPSC) models are popular for their efficiency in terms of computational time compared to full-field models but lack in accuracy due to the consideration of only mean field properties neglecting higher order statistics in the microstructure. Recent extension of VPSC model by the introduction of higher order field fluctuation (FF) terms has made significant improvement to VPSC model leading to as accurate texture prediction as full-field models during deformation and recrystallization. In this dissertation, higher order FF calculation is implemented in mean-field incremental EVPSC model. The model is named as FF-ΔEVPSC which calculates the second moment of stress, lattice spin, intragranular misorientations. Based on the implemented intragranular misorientation spreads, grain fragmentation and static recrystallization models are incorporated in FF-ΔEVPSC model. A dislocation density based recovery model is also implemented in the model. FF-ΔEVPSC is applied to interpret and predict ex-situ and in-situ thermo-mechanical and neutron diffraction datasets pertaining to deformation, recovery, and static recrystallization behavior of pure Ta. Next, the FF-VPSC model is utilized to predict grain size evolution during high pressure torsion (HPT) of pure Cu and aluminum alloy AA5182-O based on grain fragmentation model. The FF-VPSC is coupled with commercial finite element (FE) software package ABAQUS through user material (UMAT) subroutine and a sequence of rolling, recrystallization, and cup drawing is simulated for aluminum alloy AA6022-T4. Then, the present version of FF-VPSC model is extended to account for twinning in hexagonal close packed (hcp) materials by extending the FF calculation for twinned grains and a dynamic recrystallization model is developed that considers nucleation of new grains in both parent and twinned grains. The model is applied to simulate thermo-mechanical response and texture evolution dictated by dynamic recrystallization of Mg alloy AZ31. Finally, strain-gradient (SG) plasticity model based on geometrically necessary dislocation (GND) density is implemented in VPSC. FF formulations are utilized for the SG implementation in VPSC, and we call this model SG-VPSC. SG-VPSC is first applied to predict the mechanical response and grain size effect of high purity α-Ti and then applied to predict the evolution of GND density for aluminum alloy AA6016-T4
Genetic Engineering of Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.): Progress, Controversy and Potential
No full textEggplant (Solanum melongena) is the third most important vegetable in Asia and of considerable importance in the Mediterranean belt. Although global eggplant production has been increasing in recent years, productivity is limited due to insects, diseases, and abiotic stresses. Genetic engineering offers new traits to eggplant, such as seedless parthenocarpic fruits, varieties adapted to extreme climatic events (i.e., sub- or supra-optimal temperatures), transcription factor regulation, overexpressing osmolytes, antimicrobial peptides, Bacillusthuringiensis (Bt) endotoxins, etc. Such traits either do not occur naturally in eggplant or are difficult to incorporate by conventional breeding. With controversies, Bt-expressing eggplant varieties resistant to eggplant fruit and shoot borers have already been adopted for commercial cultivation in Bangladesh. However, to maximize the benefits of transgenic technology, future studies should emphasize testing transgenic plants under conditions that mimic field conditions and focus on the plant’s reproductive stage. In addition, the availability of the whole genome sequence, along with an efficient in vitro regeneration system and suitable morphological features, would make the eggplant an alternative model plant in which to study different aspects of plant biology in the near future
Pull-out behaviour of steel grid soil reinforcement in silty sand
No full textThe dominant contribution to the pull-out resistance of grid type of soil reinforcement is provided by the bearing resistance on the transverse members. A range of equations has been proposed in the literature to estimate this bearing resistance. However, these equations yield highly divergent prediction. Furthermore, these equations suggest that the bearing resistance factor is only the function of soil friction angle but, it is not clarified whether the value of the friction angle should be taken as the peak value or the value at the critical state. Some of the published literature suggests that bearing resistance factor deduced from test results depends on overburden pressure which is contradictory to the conventional equations.
In this thesis, an attempt has been made to investigate the pull-out behaviour of a galvanised steel grid reinforcement embedded in silty sand using a combination of large scale laboratory testing and numerical modelling. A number of consolidated drained triaxial compression tests were performed to investigate the stress-strain responses, peak and critical state strength parameters and dilatancy characteristics of the soil.
It was found that none of the existing equations can predict the bearing resistance factor accurately. A modified equation for bearing resistance factor is proposed to predict more realistic values in comparison with the test results.
The bearing mechanism was numerically investigated using FLAC2D. This study incorporates non-linear pre-peak stress-strain behaviour based on the Duncan-Change equations and Mohr-Coulomb failure (with non-associative flow rule) as the yield surface. Two material models were used. The first one, referred to as preliminary model, assumed both the friction and dilation angle had a constant value. The second one, referred to as complete analysis, allowed post-failure strain-softening where the friction and dilation angles reducing from a peak value to the value at critical state. For the complete analysis, the initial horizontal stress was taken into account to investigate the effect of compaction in forming the pull-out test.
The analysis results suggested that, the influence of test pressure on bearing resistance factor was negligible if the friction and dilation angle, and lateral earth pressure coefficient were taken to be a constant. However, the complete analysis results indicated that the test pressure had a significant influence on bearing resistance factor and showed a good agreement with the laboratory pull-out test results
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