Study on Employee's Management in Agriculture

1995 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 05660245
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Agro-economics
• Research Institution: NAGOYA UNIVERSITY
• Principal Investigator: TAKEYA Hiroyuki Nagoya University, Agricultural Science, Professor, 農学部, 教授 (10023491)
• Project Period (FY): 1993 – 1995
• Keywords: agricultural employment / employment management / management of working process / agriculture with employee / employment conditions

Research Abstract

Study on employee's management in agriculture can divide the subjects into three sub-subjects ; 1) management of labor ability such as a) employment, training, location, b) working hours, working density, safety, c) wage, leadership, work motivation, etc. 2) management of working process such as a) production planing, working methods, b) amount and hours of work, c) working conditions of equipment, building, environment, etc. 3) function division among head, his wife, son, employee, etc.
The investigation in this study was mainly done in Aichi prefecture where had been developing entrepreneurial farming with many emploee very much. There are many capital intensive farming such as green house farming and animal husbandry. These type of farming usually employ several workers as employee. They used to face the problems of employee's management.
Although they are surely characterized as entrepreneurial farming, they have very small capital and they face to unstable yields under natural condition. As agricultural workings are usually affected seasonally, it is not easy to employ labor steadily. Competition of labor employer between industries. In most cases, house wives are usually employed as part-time workers in agriculture. Wage and working condition in agriculture are almost the same as non farming sectors. If there are big gap, employers can not get any employee.