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Focus on career, not merely the job" is the mantra for successful
employers and employees. Managing Career with Bangladesh Export
Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA), which provides institutional support
to the potential business entrepreneurs, is rather interesting. There was
time when employment with a reputed government, semi-government and
autonomous institution like BEPZA actually meant life long employment.
The officials of BEPZA ascended the hierarchy with age. The terms like
career planning and career development in fact meant timely promotions.
Career progression, largely was a function of experience in a job.
Employees reciprocated the life long employment offer of organization
with total commitment for the organization. Thereafter it was simply a
matter of time, performance and politically positioning oneself to be at the
right place at right time to go up the ladder. There was hardly anything for
individuals to think beyond the job they were doing as career very nearly
meant the job.
Now managing career in an organization like BEPZA has been dramatically
changed.
block for further promotion, he may either earn an MBA or relevant degree
from reputed educational institution for higher post in other cadre or
change his jobs with various process industries and maintenance service
providers, he is still pursuing a career in maintenance management. In
fact the career plans that an individual nurtures in BEPZA determine the
kind of jobs he takes up.
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SECTION 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1: Scope of this document
This term paper describes the Managing Careers in Bangladesh Export
Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) and also the job description of my
position.
1.2: Objectives:
The objectives of this report are as follows:
i)
ii)
iii)
iv)
v)
vi)
1.3: Methodology:
I used the following methods to get the data required to use in this report.
i)
ii)
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iii)
1.4: Limitations:
We have faced some obstacle in writing this report. The main limitations of
this report are stated below:
i) Time constraint:
Due to time constraint we could not go through more books for
advance reading.
ii) Confidentiality of BEPZA:
We could not mention the internal policy of BEPZA due to
confidentiality. So, we have mentioned those data which are not so
confidential for this organization.
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SECTION 2
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1: What is a Career?
Definition
A career is a sequence of jobs or positions occupied by an individual
during a course of time. Career is the specialization in a profession which
continues to progress in spite of changes in jobs.
Therefore career includes:
Broad
definition
helpful
in
todays
work
environment
where
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Ensures that minorities and women get opportunities for growth and
development.
up
the
hierarchy, type
of
occupation,
long-term
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Disadvantages include:
o tendencies to perpetuate current styles and practices
o reliance on the coachs ability to be a good teacher
Exploration
Involves:
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Includes:
o search for work
o getting first job
o
Takes time and energy to find a niche and to make your mark.
Mid-Career
Employee may:
o continue to grow
o
o deteriorate
Late career
Successful elder states persons can enjoy being respected for their
judgment. Good resource for teaching others.
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May be most difficult for those who were most successful at earlier
stages.
Todays longer life spans and legal protections for older workers
open the possibility for continued work contributions, either paid or
volunteer.
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SECTION 3
INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE FOR CAREERS IN BEPZA
Zones
Authority
(BEPZA)
is
the
official
organ
of
the
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Offering financial assistance: Besides house loan and car loan, BEPZA
also provide financial assistance for medical treatment from BEPZA
Welfare Fund. BEPZA also provides loan against provident fund. These
financial assistance help employees to solve various problems.
Providing the time for employees to learn: BEPZA arranges both local
and foreign trainings either by own fund or using fund sanctioned by
World Bank under reimbursable project aid (RPA). These trainings are very
useful for development of skills abilities and knowledge of employees.
3.4: Mentoring and coaching:
Mentoring and coaching align individuals to the company values and
provide informal guidance about building career within the organization.
Mentors here are experienced coworkers and senior executives who
volunteer their time to help new employees at BEPZA. Mentors are trained
to provide advice, information, direction and support to employees.
3.5: Institutional performance of BEPZA:
Quality and capacity of bureaucracy is one of the key factors for
determining institutional performance. Based on the work of Evans and
Rauch
(1999),
concerning
the
three
key
ingredients
of
effective
However, BEPZA follows the regular promotional system, like the central
bureaucratic system, which is not based on strict performance appraisal
and in some cases is utterly anomalous. Also, BEPZA employees receive
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regular government pay scale package, which is less competitive than the
private sector.
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introduction
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of
competitive
package,
linked
with
effective
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performance
appraisal,
could
increase
the
productivity
of
BEPZA
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SECTION 4
MANAGING CAREERS IN BEPZA
3.1: Managing Career:
Careers now are very different than they were in the last century.
Organizations
like
BEPZA
can
help
with
institutional
support
for
Goal-setting
Listening effectively
Speaking to groups
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orientation
program
new
employees
are
allowed
to
work
all
departments on rotation basis. This provides them ample ideas about their
organization and their role towards the organization.
Motivation
The employees who are frustrated here are then motivated through the
better prospects of BEPZA. This influences them to take tough challenges
which lead to the overall organizational success.
Training
BEPZA arranges international training programs on foreign investments
such as training on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment
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Promotion etc. These training programs enrich the Knowledge and skills of
employees and develop leadership skills
Be innovative:
Innovation is about making changes and improvements to the way things
are done. Its developing a new idea or a new use for an old idea that will
add value. It is a skill involving actively scouting the future generating
new ideas, choosing the best, rapidly implementing them and then
learning the lessons from successes and failures in order to begin again.
Being innovative enables you to:
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Many changes, particularly those that have been imposed on us are not
easy, but they can be rewarding. Your attitude will determine how you
experience the result of change.
To help you practice planned happenstance in the workplace, here are
some things you can do:
Observe the connections between what you have learned and whats
actually happening in the workplace
When you start a job you will notice some skill gaps, find out what
can you do to close the gap - dont wait for someone to tell you
Keep track of what you have learned since you started the job
Ask yourself Is this how I expected this role to be? If not, how is it
different and what can you doing about it?
Keep track of the challenges youve had in the job and how have you
managed them
Consider the environment you are working in - What role does the
culture of the organization play in your everyday working life?
could
enhance
or
further
your
career
development.
Career
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and fulfill your career goals at the same time as meeting the needs of your
employer. Consider the following:
Assess your role and situation periodically. Is this working for you? Look
out for critical signs along the way. Ask yourself the following questions:
performance, the employees may search the route cause and discuss the
matter with their coworkers and senior executives to overcome the
problems. Besides, BEPZA patronizes various training programs which are
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useful to build capacity and enhance existing performance of the new and
existing employees.
Build and maintain network contacts:
It is all about your network. Building and maintaining relationships with
people in your field and people who are in a position to help you move
forward in your career is imperative. Start with your university professors!
Find other mentors, advisors and coaches along the way to help you
expand your network. Stay connected to colleagues from past jobs that
may be able to help you in the future.
Maintaining communication with people of different position is very much
useful for the employees in order to move to the higher position in BEPZA.
Document your achievement:
Employers are increasingly looking to what youve accomplished rather
than the titles youve held. Seek jobs and assignments that provide
increasing amount of challenges and offer objective evidence of your
competencies.
BEPZA acts as open door window for investors both from home and
abroad. Here exist steep challenges in jobs of different fields, especially in
engineering, commercial and industrial relation department. Labor unrest
is a common scenario in different EPZs. The persons who are courageous
enough to take these challenges have greater possibility to move to the
higher positions.
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Keep current:
Develop specific skills and abilities in high demand. Avoid learning
organization specific skills that dont quickly transfer to other employee.
BEPZA provides orientation programs where new employees in different
department receive opportunities to work in all departments rotationally.
This in fact increases their ideas about the diversity type of works involved
in BEPZA.
Balance your specialist and generalist competencies:
Stay current within youre your technical specialty, but also develop
general competencies that give you the versatility to react to an ever
changing work environment. Overemphasis in a single functional area or
even in a narrow industry can limit your mobility.
Most BEPZA officials are now involved in performing education side by side
their regular works to achieve higher degree that may develop general
competencies. Besides many employees are achieving MBA, in addition to
their regular professional degrees for better future and to adapt with
changing work environment.
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acquired in a takeover. Hope for the best but be prepared for the worst
may be clich, but its still not bad advice.
BEPZA provides all necessary supports for those who are involved in
challenging projects to execute contingency plans to meet the crisis
period.
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SECTION 5
RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION
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