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Agriculture Industry Management


 


 


Introduction


 


The agriculture industry evolved during the 20th century as one of the important and stable industries the society and the people has ever need most in the involvement of industry management in the workforce as certain changes in the context is relevant for a better establishment of management theories and practices within the organizational understanding, people management, complexity and the use of scientific theory in management. Moreover, the evolution of management in dealing to the agriculture industry in its respected changes is a critical indication that the industry is adapting to certain innovative aspects of change in lieu to its management development and other focal points needed for the realization of explanation and discussions of relevant information data to be used for the completion of this research presentation.


 


Discussions


Generally, agriculture industry is unique in terms of its economies as the farm sectors comprise highly competitive businessmen, producing a relatively homogeneous commodity in a market with conscious consumers. In other words, agriculture would appear to be the ideal industry evolved from the twentieth century in which to realize steady competitive market to the benefit of both producers and consumers. The demand for food in developed countries is more static: unlike demand for motor cars, consumption of food does not increase if its price falls as productivity and production increases.


 


Thus, agricultural production is determined to a great extent by climatic factors of support and expense to the agriculture industry. Recently, there is no longer a great need for such countries to protect their agriculture industry in order to secure food supplies because agricultural technology has ensured that farming has become a business of people that can produce food supply along with the spread of new technology (Hunt, 1991; Zackary, 1996).


Organizational Understanding


 


The concept understanding organization involves the key issue within management and organization studies as it provides a useful and comprehensive guide to understanding agriculture industries from a range of contexts and business sectors as well as the exploration of perspectives and the expansion of the management process and change and providing a new framework for industry research and development assumptions drawing upon the range of relevant theories within the industry.  2000;  2000) Thus, organizational understanding provides great breadth within its process approach covering a wide spectrum of management and organization while developing theoretical approach to the culture of organization. The recognition of the relevance of certain advances for understanding industries in the workplace within the issues ( 2000; 2001)


 


 


 


People Management


Managing people can be considered as the most crucial part in the agriculture industry as it involves a greater emphasis on the attitude of people in dealing to their performance and effectiveness in determining complex roles in various industry situations along with the status of good values and character. (2003) In people management, enough process of communication is a requirement in developing camaraderie within individual workers and team composition. (2003)


Since in the agriculture industry, the presence of people are an important factor mostly in various scientific processes so, proper handling and management of people is totally needed to achieve goals and objectives of the industry to be able to increase and maintain such growth and stability. (  2003) Thus, performance demands on how people are managed within change across organizations and changes in the critical competencies for management development programs including a better understanding of such efforts from the integrated management how dramatically the industry culture has changed in the past years. These changes have a significant impact on organizational efforts in order for the agriculture industries to be successful. (2003)


 


 


 


Complexity


The complexity theory helps agriculture industry as it informs the people involved on how to think regarding its evolutionary processes along with implications for understanding organization industries and for directing where and how the inquiries should take place by means of active research on organizations, management, strategy, reintegrating strategy and organization theory to a simple discipline to a different kind of discipline. (2002) Henceforth, management involves strategy in dealing with people and people are much more difficult to understand and deal with than of the machines though few management theories attempt to model people simply as machines. . (2002)


Moreover, complexity is to be understood as complexity must be accepted within the environment in which the agriculture industry finds security in the business. It is not necessary to introduce applied complexity to the business world. Science says that complexity cannot be controlled in the way people would like, but it can be influenced. . (2002) Thus, complexity builds on the industries and incorporates aspects in specific ways. The management guided by complexity research is not merely sitting back and waiting for good things to emerge as it will not work. (2002) There needs to supply a structure within which creativity can develop around the industry people.


 


 


 


 


Scientific Theory in Management


 


Management is perhaps the youngest science between managers and workers as neutralized by systematic study of both the work involved and the management required. (1947) The role of management must be and direct the agriculture laborers and establish an appropriate industry scheme which promoted the idea that scientific theory in management could be analyzed from a theoretical standpoint as it continues to be an influential framework as well as to create a new body of scientific knowledge to be of relevant use by agriculture business. (1947)


There is still principle which underlies management theory as the best idea that it is both possible and worthwhile to codify theory of management into a series of agriculture industry rules to include activities which feed off management theory in the process of its development outlook per se. There have been assumptions behind management action in business, as it can have an impact the criticism which emphasizes scientific management development to a narrow process that has better connection with what effective managers actually do in considerably complex in development and practice which underlie changes in the management theory from describing a situation to formulating a scientific understanding of it. (1947)


 


 


 


 


What most industry mangers think of as scientific management is based on a conception of science that few current scientists would defend with the volatility of the business environment, scientists have also become preoccupied with the inherent of nature and with the dynamics of unstable systems in the natural world with ample opportunity for fruitful dialogue between the world of management and the world of science and that the theory in management has opted for industry strategy and has outsourced research and development function. Thus, seldom theory is applied in management development because industry gives much wait to certain applications for the desired outcome. Theory can help the industry people learn what can be generalized from one unique experience and applied in such situation and be able to select and adapt from past learning to meet current needs and conditions. (The Taylor Society, 1972)


 


Furthermore, management development is a combination of theory and practice as well as the learning theory as it tends to simplify complex relationships by removing from consideration variables thought to be of lesser concern to permit focusing on the variables of greater interest. (The Taylor Society, 1972) However, management development seeks to integrate the flow from useful industry sources as well as utilizes management theory in order to determine program content needed by industry managers in specific situations. It integrates the content with the most effective development approaches to motivate and help people acquire and utilize the competencies effective in the workforce. (The Taylor Society, 1972)


 


Changes in the Industry in terms of its Evolution in Management


Management development is necessary because the agriculture industry may have a wealth of practical managerial experience along with the changes in the agriculture industry in understanding such behavior and scientific management of its essential per se. Moreover, given the rapid changes in the business society and technology, management development needs to be a lifelong process. (000) This is important in order to prevent the individual and the industry from becoming obsolete in integrating its management approaches to the business. ( 2000)


Henceforth, to the general belief that management development is a vital necessity for participating into programs because the nature of managerial behavior constantly changes as the result of research findings and the development of an impressive array of management techniques and approaches in special management development programs. (Capra, 1991) The development of effective concepts to the increasing use of management development programs throughout the different career and organizational levels. Furthermore, modern management development changes the agriculture industry with the integration of theory, knowledge and business experience and attempts to provide solutions to meet such industry needs. (Haas, 1990) Thus, management development is an effort to develop and improve industry competencies with impact on attitudes and change behavior of what is expected in the future and the needed to carry out industry tasks no matter how the managerial role changes over time.


 


 


 


Discuss the development of scientific management


 


Modern scientific management is fully planned out by the management in most cases describing in detail the task as well as the means used in doing the work. The task specifies not only what is to be done but how it is to be done and the exact time allowed for doing it so that both good and careful work are called for in their performance, but it should be distinctly understood that in no case is called upon to work at a pace. (The Taylor Society, 1972)


 


Thus, in order to prove that the best management is a true science, resting upon clearly defined rules and principles and to show that the fundamental principles of scientific management are applicable to certain human activities from simplest individual acts to the work of established industries for the most elaborate cooperation as well as to convince the society that whenever the management principles are applied then results must follow which are truly astounding. (The Taylor Society, 1972)


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


Evaluate early attempts to develop business efficiency


There was an early attempt to develop agriculture industry efficiency which was truly far-reaching. It can help business countries to improve their resource productivity, encourage them to reach their full potential without depleting their material resource heritage and provide industry sectors with the essentials to develop innovative ways that energize and enable society to become sustainable. (1990) The important point is that the paradigm is different as business efficiency can be measured while controlling for the influence of management process and development within the organization context of product quality measurement. (1983) Instead, the focus was set on recent developments those dealing with the measurement of total factor productivity and the relationship between industry management and its efficiency with the emphasis on its consideration of the process. Thus,  such changes in business efficiency is understood to be the change in how far an observation is from the frontier of technology and the latter is understood to be shifts in the production frontier as well as technical change  and change in efficiency. (1983)


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


Describe the development of Human Resource Management


 


One factor that seems to be receiving more attention is the people who work for agriculture industries that are realizing the likelihood of sustained success on learning to get the maximum out of their employees as it had a significant impact on the practice of human resources management (HRM). (Williams and Huber, 1986) Thus, industries entering the business environment today require both an understanding of the importance of human resources and effective HRM to industry success. In the process of HRM, there is an increasing emphasis on the personal needs of the industry and its members. How effectively employees contribute to organization goals depend to a larger extent upon the ability of its HRM staff. (Zukav, 1992) Moreover, human resources management efforts are planned, systematic approaches to increasing business success and aimed at developing HRM strategies for the total structure with an eye toward clarifying an industry’s current and potential problems and developing solutions for them. Human resources management then emphasizes that HRM planning needs to be closely related to the agriculture industry’s basic goals and plans. (Zukav, 1992)


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


Discuss the development of organizational theory


An organizational theory involves a useful invention but it is a figment of the imagination representing a partial explanation. It should be used cautiously beyond being explanatory; organization theory should have plausibility and a reasonable degree of testability of usefulness to obtain agreement on criteria for demonstration of usefulness. (Campbell, 2000) However, there is no guide to moving from general models to specific application of transferring learning from one experience to another. This, there is a considerable emphasis, on the development of organizational theory as well as the management theory on the importance of recognizing pattern of the industry to work activities and the roles at work. (2001) However, no useful organization theory can be derived from an assumption of uniqueness and situation must be taken into account to maximize management and development in agriculture industries learning within the framework of general theory as presented respectively. (2001)


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


Evaluate the Hawthorne Studies


The Hawthorne Studies (1924-32) are one of the most important contributors to the human relations movement within organizational behavior.  The studies were undertaken at the Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne Works in Cicero, Illinois, USA.  (Mayo, 1949) The studies were originally started in 1924 by Western Electric industrial engineers who examined the effect of various lighting intensities on worker productivity. It was concluded that illumination intensity was not directly related to group activity, in fact, the engineers were quite mystified as to what had caused the increase in productivity in both groups being used in the experiment. (Berkeley, 2004) Proponents of the Hawthorne effect say that people who are singled out for a study of any kind may improve their behavior not because of any specific condition being tested, but because of the attention they receive. As the recent attempts to re-evaluate the Hawthorne experiment demonstrate, the studies continue to serve as a kind of Rorschach test for managers and industrial psychologists, enabling them to find evidence to support many different and often conflicting theories of how to motivate the modern industrial worker. (Berkeley, 2004) The Hawthorne Studies enjoy primacy in such matters because the topic is covered in textbooks and authors often add interpretive commentary about the complex causes of behavior and appropriate experimental design and that Hawthorne become part of shared knowledge that is part of the unique professional culture. (Berkeley, 2004)


 


 


 


Physical Layout of the Bank Wiring Room


 



 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 



 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


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Describe the Evolution of people and organizational development


The ever expanding technology has irreversibly altered the world in ways which people still tying to understood as characterized by the proliferation of information within the basic assumptions regarding society and organizations. More correctly, the Hawthorne effect is an example of the observer participating is the construction of reality. The act of observing by itself is sufficient to change reality. (2001) The implication for managers of organizations is that focused attention can initiate change. In any stable organization, the resonant frequency of the individuals must be similar. When theorists speak of a vision, they often refer to a statement of purpose handed down by the high level management. (2001) It should be no surprise that individuals often fail to resonate with a vision, since resonance only occurs when the vision is sufficiently close to one shared by the individuals. The goal of management is not to develop a vision, but rather, to find a common vision that will create resonance in individuals. The task of management is to discover the similarities in order to find a vision that is shared by the individuals in the organization. (2001)


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


Conclusion


 


Therefore, the agriculture industry grows its management development and complexity can be apparent that such support of practice in groups has engage in sharing and learning through management development in terms of improving ways of understanding organizational performance and the whole management process and context in the industry as well as creating value between its learning outcomes and the underlying industry mechanisms as an engine for the scientific theory in management and development that will positively influence industry and business performance in the agriculture language and context that can be shared by the society and the acknowledgement of business practice through changes in  management



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