Abstract

The poultry industry is one of the agricultural sectors that distance has been distanced from peasant and traditional farms and able to attract a lot of capital and applying new technology to earn a special place in production and employment in the country. For this purpose it needs to adhere to modern management methods and is consistent with the economic and management principles. Given the importance of this industry, especially in meat supplies needed by the consumer society, the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of management skills on the productivity of lying farms in Isfahan province. Managerial dimension evaluated in a three-category typology of skills: technical, human, and conceptual. For this purpose, factor analysis was used as a structure detection method for creating indexes. Furthermore, productivity as a dependent variable was measured by using Fisher productivity index. Information for this study was gathered from a survey of 70 lying farms in Isfahan province through face-to-face interviews, based on a structured questionnaire. Validity and reliability of measurement instruments using Alpha chronbach and K.M.O respectively was 0.712 and 0.803. Fisher index results show that the efficiency of poultry in total is between 1.0721 and 0.9642 and the average of it is 0.993417. The results show that, there is a positive correlation between the cognitive, human and technical skills of managers and poultry productivity at the 0.01 significance level. Moreover, the results of multivariate regression analysis showed that the managerial skill, economic decision-making, poulet age, farm size and farm characteristics have the most impact on the productivity.

Keywords: Management Skills, Productivity, Lying Farms, Fisher Index.

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