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The three-day long “Bangladesh Economics Summit” organised by Economics Study Center on the theme of “Inclusive growth and sustainable livelihood: In Bangladesh Perspective” began with the opening ceremony on 31st October 2019 at Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium, Social Science Building, University of Dhaka.

Every year brings in unique and sometimes unusual trends in the workplace. These emerging workplace trends impact the business strategies and can bring about changes in the organisational culture. The dynamic clock speed of technology, demographic shifts, increasing mobility, etc. affect the business and subsequently the larger industries. Businesses today are adapting to these changes and trends.

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Performance appraisals are regular reviews of an employee’s job performance and overall contribution to a company with the aim of evaluating their skills, achievements and growth. Companies use these appraisals to understand employees’ strengths and weaknesses, provide feedback and development plans, and justify any promotion or termination decisions. Company policy decides how often they are conducted but they tend to be annual, semi-annual or quarterly. Here are a few steps to ace your next one.

Consider your boss to be just another assessment test or hurdle that you have to overcome in your job and see if meeting their choices or preferences can be foreseen with the amount of knowledge/insight you’ve gained thus far in the job. Is the boss quick to make decisions or rather slow? Do they keep to themselves or does communication come easy? Match your style with that of your manager, and you’ll get by better.

Gone are the days when sexism in the workplace was normalised, leading to a huge wage disparity along with all sorts of discrimination against women. Bangladesh is currently the country with the lowest gender pay gap among the lower middle income countries, according to ILO Global Wage Report 2018. But women, even till this day, are subject to a lot of sexist practices in their workplaces, which stem from the patriarchal thoughts and views that have been deeply rooted in our society for many years.

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Economics Study Center (ESC) is proud to present the 2nd Bangladesh Economics Summit (BES) 2019. The event will take place from October 31 to November 2, 2019 in the social sciences building at the University of Dhaka. After the event’s successful debut in 2018, ESC is determined to make the second season even grander.

From a target marketing perspective, the job of a data scientist is to gain insights on the products, craft product recommendations and use data to improve existing products.

Dhaka’s booming scene of online businesses & freelance modelling is a good indicator of how our economy is moving steadily towards e-commerce more and more every day.

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One of the new concepts brought about by the advent of the fourth industrial revolution that is greatly impacting the modern workspace is IoT, broadly known as Internet of Things.

Public speaking is perhaps one of the few soft skills with universal utility. Every individual needs to have a firm grasp of public speaking skills regardless of their stage of life and area of work.

If your higher-up or manager makes you want to have anxiety pills every alternate hour of the day at the office, it might be a good time to have your guards up in dealing with the case of a horrible boss. Additionally, you may see the following signs.

Just like people, businesses too have personalities that we call organisational culture. A company’s culture can be seen as the values and beliefs of the company’s founders through the collective force of employees, interactions between management and subordinates and the work environment.

Abdullah Chowdhury started Royalty Bangladesh with a simple yet challenging mission to unify privilege programs all over the Bangladeshi market.

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Online courses have appealed to people globally due to their autonomous learning characteristics. In the second part of the series, we will introduce you to some of the most popular learning sites, offering a wide range of courses for people from all backgrounds.

“Study Abroad with MACES” held a discussion about the reinstatement of United Kingdom’s two-year work permit after graduation at their office at Navana Tower on Tuesday, 1 September 2019.