Relation of Large Agricultural Holdings Towards their Employees

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Relation of Large Agricultural Holdings Towards their Employees

Original language description

The number of agricultural workers in the Czech Republic has been decreasing due to increased productivity and partly perceived unattractiveness of the sector. Besides, the workforce in the agricultural sector is ageing and most agricultural businesses are struggling to recruit workers, especially large agricultural holdings. Hence, attracting new people or retaining of employees is important. This can be done by both financial and non-financial incentives. Relation towards the employees is a part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) concept and stakeholder theory as workers are important internal group that is influenced by the company and at the same time influence the company. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to examine the relation of the large agricultural holdings in the Czech Republic towards their employees. The article is based on the data from the survey mapping the socially responsible behaviour of large agricultural holdings in the Czech Republic with 133 representatives of the farms. The data was collected in October 2018. Almost all respondents acknowledged the importance of their employees. They communicated with them their decisions (mostly at the meetings) and provided them benefits to increase their satisfaction. The feedback was gained mostly by informal meetings. Considering the difficult situation on the labour force market, it was surprising that majority of agricultural holdings did not have elaborated strategy on attracting young people. The answers did not depend on the size of the farm which implicated that social responsibility towards the employees was very important for all of agricultural holdings for many reasons. Employees are understood not only a as production factor, but also represent important stakeholder from social point of view, because over half of companies stated that they employ some local people in agriculture also for the social reasons

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Agrarian perspectives XXXII. Human Capital and Education in Agriculture

ISBN

978-80-213-3309-3

ISSN

1213-7960

e-ISSN

2464-4781

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

249-259

Publisher name

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Place of publication

Praha

Event location

Praha

Event date

Sep 6, 2023

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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