Horticultural Resource Management

There are 10 lessons in this course:

1. Horticultural Business Structures
2. Management Theories and Procedures
3. Horticulture & The Law
4. Supervision
5. Financial Management
6. Staff Management
7. Improving Plant Varieties
8. Productivity and Risk
9. Managing Physical Resources
10. Developing an Horticultural Business Plan

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

• Compare the organisational structure of different horticultural enterprises.
• Determine the value of a business plan to a specific horticultural business.
• Determine the significance of consumer law to a specified horticultural business.
• Determine the duties of different supervisors, in a specific horticultural enterprise.
• Describe how a budget is applied to managing a specific horticultural enterprise.
• Determine the criteria for selecting staff to work in an horticultural enterprise.
• Explain the system for controlling the collection of royalties on a plant which is covered by plant variety rights.
• Monitor and recommend improvements to a specified work task in a horticultural enterprise.