A STUDY ON HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES OF ORGANISED AND SEMI ORGANISED PLAYERS IN POULTRY INDUSTRY
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2024-02-14
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PROFFESSOR JAYASHANKAR TELANGANA STATE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
Abstract
The poultry industry is essential to the global agriculture sector and makes a
considerable contribution to both food security and economic growth. The
contribution of poultry sector to national GDP is one per cent in livestock 14 per
cent GDP(FAO,2021). The fastest-growing segment of the world's meat demand is
poultry meat.
The current study titled “A Study on Human Resource Practices of Organised and
Semi organised Players in poultry industry” is carried out in the host organisation.
This study attempts to look into how organized and semi-organized players in the
poultry sector use human resources. The present study documented the Human
resource practices followed by organised and semi organised sectors of poultry
industry. Human Resource Practices like selection, training and development,
promotion are far better in organised players than in the semi organised players.
Various job descriptions which are more common in the marketing and operations
divisions of the organised and semi organised players in the poultry industry were
studied. A note on the information flow and the co-ordination mechanism in the
selected departments of the host organisation was made. The information flows
through various levels of the hierarchy.
The relation between Human Resource practices and the employee satisfaction levels
in both organised and semi organised sectors of the poultry industry were studied.
Primary data on employee satisfaction was collected. 60 respondents from the
organised players and 20 respondents from the semi organised players were taken for
carrying the study. The research aims to offer useful insights into hiring practices,
training initiatives, pay scales, measures to decrease the attrition levels. Secondary
data on various job descriptions in organized and semi organized sectors of poultry
industry in the study area, human resource practices, followed and information flow
and co-ordination mechanism was collected from records maintained by the firms and
from the Human resource managers.
In order to improve operational effectiveness and sustain growth, this study looks
for best practices and potential areas for improvement in HR management within
the poultry sector.
The present study offers a comprehensive understanding of Human Resources
practices in poultry sector to the stakeholders of poultry industry, policy makers
and academicians.
From the study it was concluded that there exists proper Human Resource Practices
in organised sectors of the poultry industry. In organised sectors of poultry industry
there exists proper job descriptions and co-ordination mechanism was clear,
whereas in case of semi organised players of the poultry industry there exists a
deviation.
Semi organised players are suggested to use online portals like Indeed and Naukri
portals to recruit the employees. The outstanding performance of the employees
must be recognised and rewarded so that the employees keep motivate and
contribute better to the organisation.