Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2023, 69(6):223-233 | DOI: 10.17221/153/2023-AGRICECON

Human potential of talents in agriculture and forestry in context of Agriculture 4.0Original Paper

Milo¹ Hitka ORCID...1, Lenka Li¾betinová ORCID...2
1 Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technology, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia
2 Faculty of Technology, The Institute of Technology and Business in Èeské Budìjovice, Èeské Budìjovice, Czech Republic

Agriculture 4.0 creates a challenge for agricultural and forest enterprises in the form of changes in the processes and strategies set up to now. The ability for flexibility, personal development, and further education will be critical in transforming agriculture and forestry organisations. The transition to Agriculture 4.0 will also affect the need for human resource management in terms of their need and competence structure. This work aims to identify a group of employees in the environment of the Slovak Republic’s agricultural and forest enterprises with the prerequisites to acquire additional work competencies and the interest to develop flexibly. The mentioned group of employees, understood as progressive, will be examined from the point of view of motivational preferences and the level of satisfaction with them. The presented outputs follow searching the sample unit of 2 193 employees in agriculture and forestry organisations. Based on inferential statistics, it was confirmed that the progressive group of employees is identifiable in terms of their education and, compared to other groups, has a significantly higher perception of the importance of motivation factors with the highest difference in the case of factors related to career aspiration and social needs.

Keywords: agriculture and forestry organisation; competence change; identification of talented people; human resource management; retaining talented people; talent motivation

Received: May 3, 2023; Revised: May 24, 2023; Accepted: May 25, 2023; Prepublished online: June 19, 2023; Published: June 27, 2023  Show citation

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Hitka M, Li¾betinová L. Human potential of talents in agriculture and forestry in context of Agriculture 4.0. Agric. Econ. - Czech. 2023;69(6):223-233. doi: 10.17221/153/2023-AGRICECON.
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