Managing Director of BAT-B Shehzad Munim handing over the national flag to Farid Ahmed, who was among the two employees invited to Poland as trainers, at a programme recently. When the country faces a serious dearth of skilled workforce, a couple of workers of a leading multinational company -- the British American Tobacco (BAT), Bangladesh -- that has been operating here for a long time, were invited recently as trainers to a European country -- Poland.
The Bangladeshi trainers had gone to a BAT Poland factory to help workers there run a high-tech machine in more efficient way. The BAT-B is proud of its two workers -- Mr. Farid and Mr. Majid -- for their outstanding feat. Their success as trainers has, according to a source, opened the doors for other skilled workers at BAT Bangladesh to go to other countries, including Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Singapore, as trainers.
Farid had begun his career in BAT Bangladesh 30 years ago as an unskilled apprentice. The company sent him for his basic training at a polytechnic institute. After which, he not only got the opportunity to become a fully skilled worker but also became a mission-critical HR in this MNC. Farid says that working in a factory can be very difficult if you are not operating as a collective unit. He says that one can learn to operate a machine anywhere, "but in BATB I have learned how to work successfully in a group. He says, "Company had even sent us to Singapore for receiving better training."
The BAT Bangladesh management also feels proud that their workers are going abroad as skilled hands and as trainers. It was also a matter of great pride, emotion and patriotism for Mr. Shehzad Munim, the first-ever Bangladeshi managing director of BAT-B. The company arranged a special function on the occasion of departure of two workers for Poland. At the function, Mr. Munim handed over Bangladesh flags to the two workers, asking them to hold the flags high and earn good name for the country.
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