Recording working time in farm management - a casual-empirical approach
2004
Moriz, C.(Agroscope FAT Taenikon, Eidgenoessische Forschungsanstalt fuer Agrarwirtschaft und Landtechnik, Ettenhausen (Switzerland))
Farm-management activities are of growing importance in agriculture. In contrast to produc-tion-related tasks, however, there is little work-organization data available for farm-management activities, making it difficult to formulate reliable statements for work-planning purposes. Based on a systematic farm-management system, the present study aims to identify target time elements and influencing factors for all farm management tasks by means of a new methodological approach. This method involves a separate recording of influencing factors, which are determined on the basis of an empirical analysis, and target time elements, which are quantified within the scope of work experiments. The data collected is then used to calculate working time in farm management by means of calculation models. At the same time, work journals should be kept to determine the actual time spent on farm management. In addition, influencing factors and target time elements are extracted from the work journals in order to integrate this data into the model. The applicability of the new method is validated by comparing the collected data.
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