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Irina Panibratets, director of recruitment company «AgriPersonnel»

 One of the most pressing issues of agricultural market is companies’safety. Previously, we have written about such problems of agricultural markets: lack of qualified personnel, peculiarities of the Ukrainian mentality, failure of technologies, as well as other factors on which the outcome depends on.

Studying the dynamics of the Ukrainian agricultural market and constantly communicating with the owners, top managers and leading experts, we can conclude that many companies have learned to implement new technologies effectively, to achieve high performance productivity and to build effective work of their enterprises. Unfortunately, not all enterprises are successful and profitable.

Working on projects of optimizing organizational structure, we often hear from managers something like: «What do they still need? We created all the conditions, brought new techniques, buy original seeds and products, but the yields is twice lower than neighbours’ one».

In such cases, the reason is likely to be in the methods of new technologies implementation, low staff qualification and insufficient control of businesses.

It is worth to bring to notice the last detail. This article was based on personal experience in looking for the head of security department for a large agricultural holding. During these searches we were able to communicate with many heads of security leading agrarian companies.

Safety is important for every enterprise, regardless the size, activity and ownership. Only means and methods of protection against external and internal threats will differ.

So what does it mean «company’s safety»? What is it? What should we pay attention to first? Regarding security as a purely physical security (which now exists) is not quite correct, especially for agriculture. Today the business’ security is primarily the detection and comprehensive analysis of possible threats to the enterprise, planning and creating a whole system of measures to protect and minimize business risk. There are measures to safeguard business:

  • identify, prevent internal and external threats;
  • analytical evaluation of risks to business (financial, legal, political, information, etc.) with the following definition of methods and means to minimize them;
  • operational analysis, getting the necessary information to make better management decisions on issues of strategy and tactics of economic activity;
  • protection of property and information that are commercial secrets;
  • physical and technical protection of buildings, structures, territory, vehicles, products, etc.;
  • partners business reputation and staff monitoring, fighting against internal fraud, unsubstantiated claims of tax or law enforcement, etc.

 

Read the full version in the magazine Milk and Farm № 3 (6) September 2011.

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