Exploring HRM in Agriculture: An Annotated Bibliography Study

This annotated bibliography examines Human Resource Management (HRM) within the agricultural sector, focusing on key aspects such as strategic HRM, recruitment and selection, and the importance of human capital. It presents critical analyses of five peer-reviewed journal articles, each addressing different facets of HRM in agriculture. The articles cover topics including the need for a globalized approach to HRM, succession planning in family-owned agribusinesses, strategic HRM in small and growing firms, UK selection practices across various industries, and the impact of HRM approaches on agricultural productivity. The study emphasizes the necessity of educated and skilled labor, innovation, and effective HR planning for achieving optimal agricultural productivity and competitive advantage. The findings highlight the crucial role of HRM in addressing the challenges and complexities of the agricultural sector, offering insights into improving HRM practices and organizational performance. This resource aims to enhance understanding of HRM strategies and their application in the agricultural industry.

Annotated bibliography
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Introductio
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Agricultural industry has been the most important industry. Agriculture is
defined as the science of cultivating plants, animal and other life forms for food,
fibre, and fuel. The retail business is currently a developed industry and is
exceptionally focused. This study will show investigation and research on HRM
on agriculture part through the medium of annotated bibliographies. It will
introduce distinctive journals displayed by various authors and will likewise
show a basic reasoning on that. Five peer-reviewed journals will be exhibited in
this examination. The principle motivation behind the study is to assess the HRM
perspectives in the agricultural sector.
Article 1 Zachrison, M. (2012). Human resource management in agricultural sector.
Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
256395313_Human_resource_management_in_agricultural_sector
Keywords: Human resource management, agricultural field, education,
globalisation
The main objective of this study is to highlight the requirement for a globalised
approach to HRM and the role of educational development for the HRM in
agricultural sector. According to the authors, HRM could be defined as the set of
interrelated and distinct functions, activities and procedures which are attracting,
developing and maintaining company’s human resources. The author of the study
is completely based on the HR planning in the organisational performances. The
article consist both the conceptual and empirical assistance.
The study concluded that to prepare the agricultural workforce and to meet the
challenges in the agricultural sector, more educated and skilled labour force is
required. It also highlights that the social construction and nation history also
have great impact on the development of agricultural education and training. It
also stated that for achieving optimistic agricultural productivity, innovation
thinking is required from both the private and public agricultural institutions.
As the investigation is connected towards public sector, its discoveries are
valuable in my investigation of the agricultural sector. It will help me to be more
capable in HR. The investigation has extended from the HRM practices to impact
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of low-skilled labours in agribusiness; it wills without a doubt helps me
recognizing the improvement procedure of HRM rehearses. The areas said in the
investigation, for example, the aptitudes enlarging HRM approaches, domains
improving HRM practice and expanding HRM practices will help in
understanding the genuine idea of HRM. I will use the discoveries of the
examination in the agricultural segment and the thorough investigation in the
article will help me in improving my insight towards the HRM approaches.
Article 2 Bradley, F., Hill, P., & Connolly, A. J. (2012). An Agribusiness HR Issue:
Succeeding at Succession in the Family Business. International Food and
Agribusiness Management Review, 15(A).
Keywords: disruption of succession, human resource issue in agriculture, family
agribusiness, leadership in HR
The authors of the study have presented the concerned article on t he issue of the
succession in family owned agriculture businesses which might be a contentious
matter. The study states that at the early stage, companies need to improve their
succession by strengthening HR leadership in the company and by focusing on
internal and external people. The discussion and findings of the study is mainly
based on the HR issue in family business, though, it could be used to identify the
HR issues. The findings of the study contribute both towards the agricultural
sector and theoretical perspectives on it. The study concluded that managerial
succession in the company is often neglected. Planning for succession in any
organisation is the procedure for developing and recognising the internal people
with key leadership positions in the firm. It identified that HR planning is a very
necessary concept for agricultural businesses.
The expressed article is moderately critical in its approach. This is useful to me
as it gives me data with respect to the HRM in family agribusinesses. It is will
help in my examination of HR strategies. The idea of what occurs in HRM unit
of organizations and how it is identified with the organization's execution will be
exceptionally useful to me in understanding the concerned idea in the agricultural
showcase. It will help me in understanding the perception from HRM division.
The discoveries of the article and the complete study will help me in upgrading
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my insight towards the business. It will likewise help me to comprehend the
techniques actualized by agricultural associations towards their staffing
procedure.
Article 3 Hargis, M. B., & Bradley, D. B. (2011). Strategic Human Resource Management
in Small and Growing Firms: Aligning Valuable Resources. Academy of
Strategic Management Journal, 10(2), 105+
Keywords: small and growing business, HR practices, HRM
The article was set up by Bradley and Hargis which is divided into the vital parts
of the HRM practices. The authors contend that when business administrators
and visionaries build up a strategy for success, they have to perceive the line of
the organization's merchandises which encourages associations to accomplish
their destinations. The authors of the study focus on to demonstrate that without
productive human capital, organizations are at risk to influence their business
work adversely and will have almost no income. Prestigious organizations, for
example, Zappos.com and Coyote logistics have considered over for the
examination. The authors concluded that an organization is productive, when it
indentifies the importance of HR. The investigation presumed that when a
business plan can adjust an aggressive way to deal with a deliberately and
composed HRM, it has the vital segment to bring clients. The investigation is
extremely elegantly composed and offer key understanding to the strategic part
of HRM in business.
As the investigation is connected towards public sector, its discoveries are
valuable in my investigation of the agricultural sector. It will help me as it
incorporates the idea of HRM and its complete approaches. It will help me to
recognize the development procedure of HRM approaches in associations. The
techniques said in the article will enable me in dissecting the techniques and
systems at the time of applying HR practices. I will use the outcome of the article
in the agricultural part and the complete examination in the study will help me in
improving my insight towards the HRM. The examination will likewise help me
in tending to the complexities an association needs to look amid its selection
procedure. The study will extremely helpful to me as every techniques,
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strategies, methodologies and approaches are specified with respect to the HRM.
Article 4 Zibarras, L. D., & Woods, S. A. (2010). A survey of UK selection practices
across different organization sizes and industry sectors. Journal of Occupational
and Organizational Psychology, 83(2), 499-511.
Keywords: recruitment and selection, HR planning, UK business sectors HR
practices, industry sectors
The authors of this study means to conceptualize the term, HRM. It expects to
build up a model to gauge the current literature on the HRM in the UK industry.
The authors additionally need to approve the input of the retail business keeping
in mind the end goal to expand the commonsense and the hypothetical
measurement of the business. The author’s plans to dissect what strategies
association need to use to choose their employees. It plans to break down at what
degree to organizations applies the formalized strategies for HR practices. The
study diagrams the consequence of an investigation grabbing the strategy used to
select 579 associations in the UK. It gives a definite investigation of the output of
the effective HR practices which should be incorporated into the implanted
administration segment. The result of the examination gives a detailed disclosure
of the idea of HRM practices. A detailed analysis has been provided to different
industry in UK. The main constraint of the examination was the absence of
availability from the multinational organisations. The discoveries of the
investigation showed that utilization of different recruitment method is
comparable in retail firms and other industry. The investigation additionally
examined in connection to the implications of the recruitment strategies.
The article is a public sector study and its results are helpful in my investigation
of agricultural sector. It will help me in understanding the idea of recruitment as
the examination gets its reality from the HR method of in excess of 500
companies. It gives me data about the financial need for understanding the
compelling HR process in the agricultural segment. The discoveries of the
investigation is conceptualized towards the HR rehearses. In spite of the fact that
the investigation was directed on the grounds of one country, the result of the
examination could be attempted towards the noteworthiness of any association. I
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will use the discoveries of the examination in my HRM practices. The findings of
the study will assist me in tending to the complexities an association needs to
look for its HRM.
Article 5 Antle, J. M. (2015). Agricultural productivity: measurement and explanation.
Routledge.
Keywords: agricultural productivity, human capital, agricultural research
The reason for the article is to build up the impact of HRM approaches on the
introduction of an agricultural association. The investigation distinguished that
HRM condition matters to the business execution of an agricultural firm. The
main objective of the study is to deliver an understanding on the agricultural
productivity in terms of its conceptual development. The study is done by
presenting a collection of essays which reflects the present research on
explaining the agricultural productivity through human capital investment. The
article is organised into three different topics. The first part of the study contains
recent theoretical developments related to the agricultural productivity
measurement. Under the second part, there are four parts which aims to provide
information on the technical and productivity change in the agricultural sector. It
identifies the sources of productivity alteration, such as human capital,
investment and others. The result of the study could be utilized by agricultural
associations to gain competitive advantage over other organisations. The
outcomes talked about in the investigation could be utilized as a part of the
connection of both present and future HRM research. It states that human
resources are indispensable for the success of an organisation. The study
concludes that the human resources could be understood as the activity where the
focus is on staffs of the company.
This article would be useful for me to comprehend the ideas of HRM in
agricultural sector. As the market for agriculture has turned out to be
exceptionally important, the discoveries of the examination would help in
understanding the significance of retaining workers in the agriculture sector. In
view of the result of the examination, I would have the capacity to exhibit the
systems which should be actualized for firm rivalry. The study stated that the
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quality human resources are very crucial for the success of organisations. On the
basis of this perspective, the study will help me acknowledging the facts about
the agricultural productivity in relation with the human capital. The data and
sources used in the study will help me in understanding the paradigm of
recruitment and selection procedure in agricultural sector.
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