Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- What defines management ability? -- The origins of managerial ability -- Decision processes and goals -- Skills required -- Biases and stress -- Intuition -- The influence of farmers' personal characteristics on a range of issues in management -- More on objectives: family influences, origins and modification -- Methods of improving managerial ability.

This book provides an understanding of a farm manager's characteristics and why a particular person reacts in a defined way when faced with a range of situations. It has 10 chapters which cover: the psychological and personal characteristics of a farmer that defines his management ability; the decision processes and goals of farmers; the skills required for successful farm management; biased decisions and the role of stress; farmers' use of intuition in decision making; the influence of farmers' personal characteristics on a range of management issues; the influence of the farm family on a farmer's objectives and decisions; and methods of improving managerial ability.

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