Human Resources Management and Education in Hungarian Agriculture

The question of quality and value of human resource has been coming to the front in the Hungarian agriculture for the past few years. The aim of our essay is to represent the surveys directed to examine the problems of the qualifications of labour employed in the agriculture, and the human resource management. We carried out our survey in the framework of the research program worked out. We conducted a questionnaire-based research series among managers of agricultural companies. On the basis of the results we worked out an equivalent calculation system suitable for reviewing and comparing the different qualifications. Using the qualification equivalent as a recalculation factor, the aggregate qualification value and the qualification index of companies can be calculated. From the qualification index we carried out different examinations in order to compare and analyse the human resource management of organizations. We stated that the qualification index is below 1 in the case of 50% of the involved companies which means that the qualification of the employees in agriculture is extremely low in Hungary. We demonstrated that companies employing higher educated employees operate more effective. In the case of companies with fewer employees the qualification indexes are higher. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer review under the responsibility of Prof. Dr. Andreea Iluzia Iacob.