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| Title | Farm business management |
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| Creators | Nuthall Peter |
| Collection | Электронные книги зарубежных издательств ; Общая коллекция |
| Subjects | Farm management ; Farm management. ; EBSCO eBooks |
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| Language | English |
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| Record create date | 2/4/2019 |
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- Farm Business Management: The Human Factor Second Edition
- Copyright
- Contents
- The Author
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 Introduction
- General Overview
- The Case Study Farmers
- Introducing Margrave
- Introducing Hank
- 2 What Defines Management Ability?
- Introduction
- Personality and its Links to Management
- Personality and Tests
- Attitude to Risky Situations
- SET OF QUESTIONS TO ASSESS A FARMER’S RISK ATTITUDE
- ANSWERS
- Intelligence and its Links to Management
- Intelligence and Tests
- Motivation, Objectives and Emotional Intelligence
- Learning Style
- The diverging style
- The assimilating style
- The converging style
- The accommodating style
- Concluding Comments
- Appendix 2A. Managerial Style Test
- Appendix 2B. Managerial Aptitude Test
- Instructions
- I. MEMORY
- II. EXPERIENCE
- III. CREATIVITY
- IV. GENERAL
- V. SHAPES
- VI. CALCULATIONS
- Instructions
- 3 The Origins of Managerial Ability
- Introduction
- Objectives
- GOALS AND AIMS
- Locus of Control
- QUESTION SET TO ASSESS A FARMER’S LOCUS OF CONTROL
- Relating LOC to Managerial Factors
- Modelling Managerial Ability
- Factors giving rise to ability
- Modelling results
- Concluding Comments
- Appendix 3A. Observation
- Introduction
- Test – Reality check
- 4 Decision Processes and Goals
- Introduction
- Decision Processes
- Linear approach
- Decision rules
- Problem recognition
- Dynamic approaches
- Modifications to the processes
- Constructs
- Intuition (or tacit knowledge) and experts
- Innovations and their adoption
- Objectives and Their Impact on the Managerial Processes
- Maximization
- Satisficing
- Multiple goals
- Integration
- Complications
- Concluding Comments
- 5 Skills Required
- Introduction
- The Questionnaire, Sample and the Respondents
- Managerial Attributes
- Entrepreneurial Skills
- Personal Attributes
- Bringing Together the Farmers’ Views on Competencies
- Summary of Skills Required
- Introduction
- Risk management
- Observation
- Negotiating
- Anticipation
- Planning
- Learning from experience
- People skills
- Implementation
- Technology
- Solutions
- Analysis
- Case farmers’ views
- Introducing Two Consultants, and Their Views on Skills
- Bruce and his dairy farming interest
- ‘Prof’ and his comments about the skills required
- Concluding Comments
- Appendix 5A. Survey on Managerial Factors
- A. GENERAL
- B. IMPORTANCE OF MANAGERIAL ATTRIBUTES
- C. IMPORTANCE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS
- D. MANAGERIAL STYLE
- E. GOALS AND AIMS
- F. COMPUTER USE
- G. IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- H. PERSONAL FEATURES
- I. MANAGERIAL TRAINING
- 6 Biases and Stress
- Introduction
- Areas of Bias
- Observation
- Forecasting
- People relationships
- Decision principles
- Implementation
- General
- Stress and Decisions
- Introduction
- Combating stress
- The Case Farmers’ Thoughts on Bias and Stress
- Margrave’s case
- Now Hank’s views
- Concluding Comments and Bias Reduction
- 7 Intuition
- Introduction
- The Background to Intuition
- Experience
- Decision systems
- Modelling intuition
- Introduction
- A model of intuition incorporating the variables highlighted
- Details of the variables and data collection
- Analysis of data and results
- The SEM model
- A comparison of farmers with high as against low intuition abilities
- Productive efficiency
- Improving farmers’ intuitive skills
- Concluding Comments
- 8 The Influence of Farmers’ Personal Characteristics on a Range of Issues in Management
- Introduction
- Farm growth
- Introduction
- The data
- The analysis
- Comparison of the managers on large as against smaller dairy farms
- Messages
- Ownership Systems
- Background
- A generalized model of the variables likely to impact on the choice of ownership and governance
- The results from the analyses
- Messages
- Property Succession
- Introduction
- Model
- Data and analyses
- Messages
- Farmer Anxiety
- Introduction
- Anxiety modelling
- Results of the analyses
- Messages
- Concluding Comments
- 9 More on Objectives: Family Influences, Origins and Modification
- Introduction
- The Family Influence
- The Influence of a Spouse
- The Origins of Objectives
- Quantifying the Origins of Objectives
- Introduction
- The important factors
- Some quantification
- Locus of control
- Entrepreneurship
- Concluding Comments
- 10 Methods of Improving Managerial Ability
- Introduction
- Learning Processes
- Benefits of Changing
- Topics and Resources Available
- Training Methods
- Overview of methods
- Mentoring approaches
- Case farmer views
- Professional consultants’ views
- Concluding Comments
- References
- Index
