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Group No: 05
Md. Abul Hasnat 1421020030
Nehal Saif 1411040630
Md. Shamim Bhuiyan 1430805030
Akash Bose 1421080030
Abdullah Al Noman 1420316030
Submitted To,
Fazla Mohiuddin
Lecturer,
Department of Management
North South University
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
To complete our report on organizational behavior, first of all our team is very grateful to
Almighty Allah for the hard work, dedication, team effort and patience that we have put to
finish our project work on time. The team would also like to thank our team members as all
of them adherent their full support and cooperation and gave valuable time to do the
project work. We would like to show gratitude to Muhammad Faiyaz Bin Sazzad, IWS
required information. Besides we are thankful to the other parties who share the
information about this report directly or indirectly to finish this work. Finally we are very
grateful to our course instructor Fazla Mohiuddin, who inspired and suggested us to do the
project, and supported us in every possible ways, the team is very thankful to him and it is
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Tobacco Bangladesh.” under the guidance of Muhammad Faiyaz Bin Sazjjad, IWS
maintenance lead operations of British American Tobacco Bangladesh. The company has a
very big manufacturing facility. Their Organizational Behavior implies on the individual, the
group and the organizational system. When we went to BAT, we discussed about their
negotiations and company culture. Here we also discuss about the internal and external
also discuss here BAT’s organizational structure. Proper strategic planning, technical
excellence, swift and timely decisions helped them to achieve their objectives leading to
much faster growth. They have a good relationship between managers and employees. BAT
achieved its tremendous commercial success through its honesty and sincerity in business
policies.
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Introduction
Organizational behavior is a concept in the field of organizational studies and management
which represents the attitudes, experiences, beliefs and values of a particular organization.
It defines the specific collection of values and norms that are shared by people of an
with each other and with stakeholders . British American Tobacco Bangladesh is one of the
tobacco company which headquarter situated in London, United Kingdom. BAT has
operated in around 180 countries. They hold a leading market position in - America, Asia
,Europe, Middle East, Africa. More than 1500 people work in directly and about 50,000
people work indirectly in BAT. The mission of British American Tobacco Bangladesh is
the OB level. They tried to follow OB level and they use the OB concepts in terms of their
benefit. OB Level is the key of success for many organizations so does for BAT. BAT attains
the control over their employee behavior. They can understand their employee’s behavior
very well. Last few decades BAT is one of the successful organizations of the world. To
maintain such big multinational corporation, BAT follows the best of OB level.
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Diversity in BATB
Diversity helps us to identify consumers, customers and stakeholders mind and to meet
their demand. It helps us to create different point of view at challenges, creativity and
attached and you have to makethe things sure that the culture supports them to work.
When you heard the word diversity what raises in your mind? The first thing is that people
normally think about the factors are age, gender, race, cultural background. To create the
perfect male to female ratio you have to hire people who are fit into diverse workplace and
Though BAT shares things in common with other individuals, at the end of the day, everyone
is their own person and can bring different things to workplace, which represents why
and ideas BAT hires people who have different personalities and who are at different stages
of their carrer.
Employment Equality
Each employee is getting equal opportunity in British American Tobacco .BAT ensure that
their employee don’t have to face discrimination when making their managers make
candidate`s race, color, gender, age, social class, religion, smoking habits, sexual orientation,
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politics, or disability – subject of the work to be done. Their aim is to ensure a diverse and
Bat hires people from approximately 140 nations, giving them distinctive perception
towards the local markets and upgrading our ability to compete across the world. They give
respect and they are willing to celebrate each other’s differences. They enjoy working
together. To build strength oftheir business they maintain diversity – of our people,
cultures, race, sex, point of view, brands, markets and ideas. They efficacy what makes them
unique.BAT trust in the efficacy of teams and diversity in those teams. Individuality is revere
in tailing of team goal. Believe in individual creativity and contribution can very helpfulto
bring success. From eightcore company values strength from diversity is one. Focus group
shaped these values by discussions with hundreds of employees of all levels of the
organization. They describe things that BAT believes strongly, these are a part of soul of
BAT.
BAT supports the job development of female executives, with the mission of increase the
participation of women in senior management work. This mission helps to developing the
plans for women, assigning mentors and encouraging recruitment intermediaries to create
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Diversity was deemed in past as subject of employment equity and to take appropriate
action based on the situation. Now a days, a diverse workforce is widely valued as a key
business essential and should be applied into every organization. A diverse management
system helps to bring better decision, better products, better services, happier customers,
Successful diversity management is about untying the rich and diverse inherent of a
workforce. Here are seven steps of building a better diversity workforce of BAT
1. Define terms
BAT has a unique point of view about what diversity means. Between race and gender, it
can also include age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, mental, physical capabilities&
disabilities, gender identity, family status, language, opinions and working style. BAT doing
2. Realistic
When BAT sets their goals after that every employee who has a control for diversity from
CEO on down as buy-in is critical. But they also maintain their assumptions. BAT`s diversity
management is complicated and not every company will develop at the same stride.
3. Build in metrics
BAT`s diversity management has calculate progress toward particular, measurable long-
4. Assemble resources
BAT reach their goals with correct human or fiscal resources. Their Successful diversity
5. Set up a system
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Talent acquisition is about engage the best talent from a certain amount of outstanding
individuals of different & diverse backgrounds. They engaged the talent and then they
6. Educate
Every employee have to be well trained. BAT educated their employee about the benefits of
diverse workplace and the processes of diversity is necessary. Employees must be train
about the coaching, mentoring and working skills they need. Without training, they risk
Employees take their sign from the top, so their most senior executive eloquent the
Personality is often described in terms of the measurable traits a person exhibits and
from the viewpoint of psychologists a dynamic concept describing the growth and
personality plays a vital a role for bringing success to an MNC like BAT .
From many popular ways big five model is one of the best ways to assess personality traits .
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1. Extraversion :People with extraversion personality tends to be gregarious , assertive
, and sociable . These types of people have high performance capability , have a good
leadership quality and and higher job satisfaction which results in higher job
2. Agreeableness :
Highly agreeable people tend to be cooperative, warm and trusty. These kinds of
people have higher job performance and are low in deviant behavior. High
performance capability and lower deviant behavior both personality attributes for
the welfare of any company, so they can be considered as an asset for BAT.
3. Conscientiousness :
working, reliable, achievement oriented and are eager to learn new things than just
knowledge which leads to higher job performance and they are also good at
4. Emotional Stability :
confident, secure (positive), versus nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative). BAT
needs emotionally stable employees, because they can handle stress and solve any
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5 Openness to experience :
People who are extremely open are creative, curious , artistically sensitive . These
types of people have good leadership skill and they can easily adopt changes, they
are more flexible and autonomous. People with these traits are obviously important
Motivation Concepts :
Motivation is the processes that account for an individuals intensity, direction and
persistence of effort toward attaining a goal. Highly motivated persons are assets for
any organization. Intensity describes how hard a person tries, direction is the effort
measures how long a person can maintain his /her effort. So highly motivated person
will be hardworking, will try to maintain his effort and that will lead to the welfare of
the organization. British American Tobacco is very much conscious about their
employee’s motivational level. BATB has unique reward and recognition system
throughout the company to motivate their employees .BAT offer incentives like extra
paid day off to motivate it’s employees. BATB also offers “Employee of The Month
There are many theories of motivation. According to McGregor’s, there are two
distinct views of human beings: Theory X (basically negative) and Theory Y (positive).
The people of Theory X views are workers with little ambition those who dislike work
and avoid responsibility. On the other hand, the people of theory Y views are self-
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directed workers those who enjoy work and accept responsibility. Theory Y type
employees are asset for every organization. As BAT goes through strict recruitment
and selection process, they select ambitious and responsible (Theory Y view) for
their organization. BAT also uses goal –setting theory to motivate their employees.
BAT specify the goals for it’s employees and it results in higher performance.
McClelland’s three needs theory in the perspectives of BAT are given below:
organization, and employees are given high degree personal responsibilities and
duties which are challenging as well which gives a competence to the employees.
BATB also provides award for good performances which create ambition among the
Hierarchy system in BATB gives their employee the opportunity to make subordinate
employees behave in a way that they would not have behaved otherwise.
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Foundation Of Group Behavior
Group: Two or more individuals, interacting and interdependent who have come together
Work group behavior: work become too complex for individual to perform alone. Groups
are better at brainstorming and coming up with creative solution to complicated problems.
Groups also produce higher level of commitment and satisfaction. As group members
develop feeling of cohesiveness and trust one another. From top level to lower level every
company has their own groups to complete the specific task. They have responsibility to
finish a task assigned to them within giving period to achieve the organizational goals.
British American Tobacco (BAT) is the largest, leading and reputed tobacco companies all
over the world. They have large number of people who are working for them. For that
reason they have to maintain that number of people effectively and efficiently. As a result,
the company is very much aware about their employees work within a group and ensures
employees participation in the work group. In recent time the authoritative structures all
over the world are changing and group based work structure take the place of individual
work structure. Innovative goals and financial condition are the fact for driving this change.
On the other hand, global competition, consolidation and innovation generate the pressures
and those pressures are influencing the emergence rise of teams as primary building blocks
ability, experience, and a good team has those characteristics. The important reasons for
British American Tobacco (BAT) to having a cross cultural and mixed culture teams,
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company have globalized operations through expansion merger and acquisitions, and joint
ventures.
BAT always try to add various features that can provide a foundation for initial definition of
D. Interact socially.
To cope up with huge competition BAT also follow typical method of group development
process. First stage is forming, second stage is storming, third stage is norming and fourth
stage is performing. There also has one stage for temporary group which is adjourning.
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Team composition: team has a positive effect that working a team has on our mental state.
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the
team. BAT knows that team effects will help the company for practical benefits. BAT has a
better understanding of such effects will help practitioners to select and construct more
effective teams. As a result BAT forms the team for the purpose of daily staffs, research and
concentration of hypothesis and look into on groups. All themes tended to in this part bear
on group adequacy in somehow. BAT always prefers team performance and team
effectiveness because BAT is the worldwide company and they have to work with different
complex situation and culture. To achieve the organizational goal company need to improve
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outcome and team capacity helps them to cope up with complex situation and achieve
organizational goal.
Team of BAT
British American Tobacco forms several types of teams to carry out organizational chores.
1. Department teams: BAT has different types of department and they forms teams for
or she has mastered. Department team helps the departmental head to achieve
some specific departmental objectives which are strongly related with overall
organizational objectives.
2. Problem solving teams: BAT keep the trust on temporary team for problem solved.
They temporarily form the problem solving team to solving a specific issue. Like ,
3. Virtual teams: there are many types of virtual teams that contacts and
communicate with inside and outside peoples. It’s easier communication tools allow
manager to creates teams based no strength and weakness rather than geography.
other department to tackle various events for the company. Cross functional teams
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improve the relationship among the companies department. If a new product launch
All employees are not equally experience and knowledgeable as a team players. For
that reason BAT have different types of steps to help someone to become a good
Sleeting & Hiring team players: BAT follows different types of strategy to select
someone as a team member. They give the priority who has more team role playing
Training & Creating team players: BAT believes that training makes a man perfect
and they give the training to their employee to become a team member. BAT
training manager use different method to trainee their employee those are, role
Rewarding: Providing initiatives to be good team players: BAT rewards its employees
who perform effectively and efficiently as a team player. Reward can be based on
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Ultimate goal of work groups:
BAT always try to accomplish some goals like job satisfaction, performance
efficiently and effectively by forming clear and specific effective goals. Working with
groups and teams can bring the job satisfaction improve job performance, develop
Conflict
When an individuals have different ideas, beliefs, or theories regarding business operations
Conflicts often arises there. Most of the business owners also find conflict when they deal
with other business entrepreneurs or when they used to bargaining with them. A conflict
will arise in any situation where employee position or responsibilities to obtain a personal
gain or benefit apart from the normal rewards of employment, or where there is scope for
prefer individuals personal interests, or those of any close relative, above their duties and
Negotiation
Negotiation is the process solving problem or conflict between two individuals or between
organization. Negotiation is often necessary to create an amicable solution for all parties
Conflict in BAT
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Conflict is a major issue and problem we see in most of the organization. Like others, BAT is
also one of them company. Many sort of conflict over there might be few example of
➢ Sometime employees are engaged with third party organization without informing
authority to do so. Some activities of this kind are never permissible. For example
o Any customer or supplier with whom you deal as part of your role
other external business if they have any participation in the Company’s relations
➢ Employee should ever be in a situation where they have the ability to hire, supervise,
close relative.
➢ When some employee are don’t agree to maintain hierarchy or very much blind to
award time,
Award goes to wrong person those are not deserve for that. This is also a reason for
arising conflict.
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➢ BAT employees have to avoid situations where their personal interest might or might
➢ Potential conflicts must disclosed so that top management can easily monitor the
➢ If there is two close relative working in the same company or business unit, the
possibility of injustice.
Communication
This communication process is essential for a company progress. BAT also has a proper
communication process how they accelerate a good communications between manager and
BAT strongly deliberate that to attain their specific goal it’s necessary to maintain a well
communication process between employee and higher stuffs as well. Because of this they
are following some effective methods for communicating with different parties.
Focus (Quarterly Magazines): it’s a less formal and people are easily engaged with this
process. They publish magazines once every three months. They publish articles about
itself. Employees also demonstrate their work experiences in those articles. The purpose is
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BATB News (Video News): BAT Bangladesh uses this method to notify the employees
about company’s vision, direction, business performance, new strategies, and other internal
external business purpose whereas non-management employee can easily interact with
company and it’s mainly used for motivating people outside of organization. These meetings
take place on the factory floor and the line manager organizes a simple PowerPoint
presentation to employees and lets them aware of what needs to get done and how they
Lotus Notes (Email): it’s an email based communication system with manager.
Open Forum: it’s an informal platform of communication with all employees .there also
included both management and non-management employees where everyone can easily
participate and give their suggestion, opinion or share any problem they already faced in
organization.
A phone call and SMS: BAT maintains a database to keep all the employees ‘cellphone
Internet Site: All of the organizations of BAT connected globally with network based on
internet. Only their respective members have access to interact with others. BAT also
arranged a regular meeting to communicate internal and external parties. All sorts of
managerial decisions are taken by there in such meeting. All local entities of BAT set up
meeting frequently virtually or directly to exchange views or to show casing over all
performances of that particular entity or as a whole. BAT top management is very much
conscious about communicate with employee and other stuffs, mostly they communicate
through E-mail.
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Organization Structure:
An organization structure defines how job tasks are formally divided, grouped and
coordinated. Managers need to consider six key elements while designing their
organization’s structure,
1. Work Specialization
2. Departmentalization
3. Chain of command
4. Span of control
5. Centralization
6. Decentralization
Work Specialization:
The degree to which activities in the organization are sub divided into separate jobs can
BAT uses this element for their organizational structure .As a result, employees
specialize in doing part of an activity rather than the entirely. BATB management uses
specialization as a means of making the most efficient use of it’s employee’s skills.
Departmentalization:
departmentalization .BATB has divided their group activities on the basis of who performs
what functions. The marketing of BAT products is done by the marketing department under
the supervision of their Head Of marketing .They have a specialist of legal and external
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affairs. As a result BAT gains the efficiencies from putting specialists together from various
departments.
Chain of command :
Bangladesh . The other managers work under his supervision. But BATB has a Head of their
every departments. Such as Mr. Rezaul Islam is their head of marketing, so employees under
him reports only to him .BATB also have a finance director, head of their HR and so on.
Span of Control:
There are 1,500 people directly and approximately 50,000 people indirectly working for
BATB as farmers, distributors and local suppliers, .BAT Bangladesh is one of the most
preferred employers in the country. It is the people, who bring their differences every day
Centralization:
BAT is a decentralized company. Top managers make all the decisions and lower level
BAT’s culture
BAT is a manufacturing firm. Managers are expected to fully document all decisions.
Creative decisions that incur significant change or risk are not encouraged. Seven primary
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3. Outcome Orientation: Management of BAT focuses on outcomes rather than on the
employees outcomes.
4. People Orientation: BAT always focuses on the outcomes not on employees. They
5. Team Orientation: BAT also does activities by organizing teams rather than
individuals. Because they think that team work gives more outcome than individuals.
6. Aggressiveness: BAT people are more aggressive and competitive rather than easy
going.
Conclusion
BAT is one of the leading tobacco manufacturing Company in Bangladesh even BAT is
that’s why they are trying to maintain their HR activities in a standard measurement. It has
highly qualified employees. BAT has HR department which operate their activities very
efficiently. After analyzing we have come to some points which are very significant. They
actually provide everything for job satisfaction that need to be motivated every employees.
BAT has friendly environment so employees don’t face so much emotional problem. BAT
applies self-esteem theory for motivation to the higher level employees. They try to
motivate their employees by providing each and every facilities that they need, even
employees can overcome their stress so easily for their flexible and friendly environment.
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