STAFF MANAGEMENT IN THE YEAR 2,000 (POSTER)

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’.

Horticultural Economics and Marketing, XXIII IHC

J.A.H. Nicholson

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1991.295.28