ISHS Acta Horticulturae 135: VII Symposium on Horticultural Economics, XXI IHC
A QUANTITATIVE MODEL FOR MEASURING MANAGEMENT LEVEL (PART I) |
| Author: | J.M.F.H. Achten |
| Abstract:
A great number of researches has been done and a lot of books has been published about theoretical and practical aspects of management. Peoples like Ansoff, Argyris, Drucker, Humble, Koontz and O'Donnel, MacGregor, Simon and many others are wellknown authorities in this field. Also a lot of research has been done and is still doing in horticulture. Different management aspects were already subject of previous meetings of the ISHS, for instance of the sections Labour and Labourmanagement and Horticultural Economics. Contributions have been made by many peoples from the Research Stations, the Universities, the Advisory Services, Training centres and practical growers. At the end of 1979 in Holland a workinggroup was installed called the "Werkgroep Management Ontwikkeling tuinbouw" (WMO). The WMO consists of members of the Advisory Service, the Research Institutes, Schools, the Agricultural University, Practice and the Agricultural Government. The objective of this group is "to develop activities by the Research Institutes, the Advisory Service, the Government, the Agricultural Schools and the Practice with the aim to increase the management level of specific horticultural enterprises". The means of the group are inventory, initiation and coordination of the mentioned activities. The WMO has published some booklets for instance about the different study and training courses. Another booklet descripes the several planning methods in the different countries of Europe and another takes care of the coordination and development of the different information and planning systems in Holland. To be able to initiate and coordinate the most effective activities, the WMO feels it necessary to get an overall view into the aspects and relations of management into Horticulture. Especially she was interested into the most effective factors and moreover into the specific and collective contributions of the earlier mentioned institutions of the WMO to increase the management level of individual enterprises. In Spring 1980 the WMO decided to develop a management model especially aggravate to glasshouse enterprises. With help of the model the WMO should be able to measure the management level on a specific enterprise and to suggest the enterprises how and with help of which institutions measurements could be taken to bridge the rift between the actual and the ideal level of the WMO. | |
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