Skilled horticultural managers are in demand to manage strategies appropriate to specific enterprises in the horticultural industry, both private business or public enterprises. This course has been developed to provide horticulture businesses with resource management skills that help to ensure a successful horticultural enterprise.
Covers planning for efficient and economical management in horticulture: including such things as work procedures and programming, budgeting and staff supervision. The course is relevant to all areas of horticulture including nurseries, parks, private gardens, market gardening and fruit production.
COURSE STRUCTURE
There are ten lessons in this course as follows:
- Horticultural Business Structures
- Management Theories and Procedures
- Horticulture & The Law
- Supervision
- Financial Management
- Staff Management
- Improving Plant Varieties
- Productivity and Risk
- Managing Physical Resources
- Developing an Horticultural Business Plan
Examples of things you may be doing:
- Compare the organisational structures of different horticultural enterprises.
- Determine the value of a business plan to a horticultural business.
- Determine the significance of consumer law to horticultural business.
- Determine the duties of different supervisors, in a specific horticultural enterprise.
- Describe how a budget is applied to managing a specific horticultural enterprise.
- Determine the criteria for selecting staff to work in an horticultural enterprise.
- Explain the system for controlling the collection of royalties on a plant which is covered by plant variety rights.
- Monitor and recommend improvements to a specified work task in a horticultural enterprise.
