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ISHS Acta Horticulturae 295: Horticultural Economics and Marketing, XXIII IHC

STAFF MANAGEMENT IN THE YEAR 2,000 (POSTER)

Author:   J.A.H. Nicholson
Abstract:
The productivity of employees is influenced by technical changes, capital investment and many aspects of management style. It can be shown that the following factors may contribute in horticulture:

Growing methods Modernisation
  Computerisation
  Mechanisation

Method study Recruitment
Labour planning Team building
Ergonomics Skills training
Work environment  
Job design  

Supervision Staff appraisal
Setting targets Pay
Communications Incentives
Delegation  
Consultation  
Participation  

The importance of such factors depends on the nature of single firms and their immediate problems. But in Britain and The Netherlands there is increasing recognition of the need for ‘involvement’. As J.T.W. Alleblas has said at this congress (Workshop on Future Topics on Horticultural Economics):

‘Special attention should be paid to the possibilities to influence the firm's policy from the botom of the organisation’.

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