Peculiarities of human resources management in sustainable and ecological farms

Abstract

Human resources management in agricultural farms is of particular importance in the context of the particularities of labor in agriculture, which is different from other economic sectors. Since labor is the most important production factor of any economic activity, labor productivity is the most used in the evaluation of economic efficiency. Accelerating the productivity growth is related to understanding content and its meaning, major factors of influence and way of exploitation. To emphasize human resource management and to illustrate the way of calculation of labor productivity, the study was conducted in an ecological farm with a vegetable profile of Iaşi County, Romania. The labor productivity has been used in the evaluation of economic efficiency, for three major crops: wheat, maize and potatoes. We used three indicators: average efficiency factor of production land use, WPm; the average productivity of labor in physical units, WLm; labor productivity, WH; labor productivity in monetary value, WV. To increase the labor productivity and efficiency of human resources there were organised training courses and programs both of managers and directly involved productive staff, but also there were introduced new production technologies that lead to ease and make efficient the staff work.