Human Resource Management in National Agricultural Research. Report of a Workshop held in the Hague, the Netherlands on November 7-11, 1988

摘要

Human resource management approaches and tools developed by the International Service for National Agricultural Research are presented in the collection of papers, case studies, and exercises from a recent workshop on the subject. The first section provides a global overview of human resource commitments to agricultural research and the levels of financial support they require to be productive. The second section discusses information management in human resources activities and describes ISNAR's computerized Agricultural Researcher Information System. Subsequent sections focus on six specific aspects of human resource development: staffing, including the development of job descriptions and the practices related to recruitment, selection, assimilation, and deployment of personnel; formal and on-the-job training; compensation, including the development of grade structures, promotion policies, and monetary rewards; performance appraisal and setting performance goals; performance improvement through nonmonetary factors; and (6) special project experiences involving research-extension linkages and on-farm research.