OPERATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT II BHT327

Learn how to manage the operations of a horticultural enterprise, from employee interviews and staffing through to financial management

In this course, you'll learn about aspects of law affecting horticulture, how to manage staff, basic legal practices. You'll also complete a problem-based learning project on financial management, followed by a case study — both designed to help you put theory into practice.

Horticultural enterprise is a vast field, encompassing everything from hobby farms and vineyards to cultivar hybridisation and development. Unlike other management courses, Operational Business Management II focuses on horticulture and the concerns surrounding it, such as laws surrounding:

  • Soil additives – including chemical, biological and organic agents
  • Pesticide/herbicide use – to protect the health of consumers, users and the environment. Conditions are set to ensure that (predetermined and accepted) chemical residue in food or in the environment are not at harmful levels
  • Food handling (harvest, post harvest aspects) – hygiene and quality
  • Food labeling – open and honest
  • Marketing – standards e.g. for fresh fruit and vegetables; fair trade
  • International trade – import/export restrictions, trading with developing countries, trading within and outside of the EU, trading with developed nations

In this course, you'll learn about aspects of law affecting horticulture, how to manage staff, basic legal practices. You'll also complete a problem-based learning project on financial management, followed by a case study — both designed to help you put theory into practice.

 

COURSE STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS

This course is broken up into seven lessons

  1. The Law and Horticulture
  2. Contract Law
  3. Employment Law
  4. Financial Management (PBL)
  5. Staff Performance Management
  6. Motivating Employees in Horticulture
  7. Management Case Study (Problem Based Learning)

Duration: 100 hours

 

Aims

  • Discuss, examine and evaluate legal systems and laws that are relevant to the management of horticultural enterprises.
  • Examine, evaluate and debate the elements that comprise the making of valid contracts in the horticulture industry.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the principal areas of employment legislation
  • Compare financial management requirements for a series of optional horticultural enterprises in two or more different countries.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the principal areas of performance management and staffing within a business environment.
  • Determine and apply an understanding of motivation theory to better manage staff performance within a horticultural business environment

     

Resourcing Professionals

Companies often use resourcing professionals to:

  • Analyse job applications
  • Interview and select appropriate applicants
  • Pass on the ‘best’ to be interviewed by the company.

For small business however this is often financially prohibitive so they must develop their own selection criteria. In either case the resourcing policies, procedures and systems must correlate with the strategic goals of the business.


How This Course Could Help You

This course builds on and extends the financial planning aspect of running a business which was introduced to students in our Operational Business Management I (Horticulture) module. It includes legal aspects of running a business which are applicable to higher levels of management in larger businesses but also relevant to smaller business operators. Students can tailor their exploration of legal and financial aspects of business operation through special projects within the course. The course will suit people in the following areas:

  • Horticulture Retail & Wholesale
  • Horticulture Supplies
  • Landscaping
  • Nursery
  • Parks & Gardens
  • General Horticulture

 

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