Its Management and FPC

1. Flow of the session
A. Introduction
B. Review and Reflect on the previous modules/Sessions
C. Management Practices
D. Operations Management
E. Financial Management
F. Questions & Answer session
G. Closing

2. 1. Organizational structure
2. Human Resources Management
3. Work Organization
4. Monitoring and reporting
5. Management Information System (MIS)
Management practices
This training will broadly cover the following sub-topics:
6. Activities and process
7. Procurement
Operations Management
8. Financial and accounting system
9. Budgeting
10. Control/Audit (Internal and external)
Financial management

3. • Finalization of business assumptions
• Finalization of financial requirement
• Determination of return to members
• Preparation of business plan
• Estimation of production
• Identification of potential commodities
• Determination of marketable surplus
BUSINESS ASSESSMENT
B. Review/Reflection on FPO Business
BUSINESS PLANNING
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C Management Practices

5. Management practices
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Objectives
After completing
this session
participants will
be able to:
• Describe organizational structures, policies and systems.
• Describe human resource management and recruitment procedure.
• Explain steps of employees performance management.
• Understand need & steps of monitoring and reporting in FPOs.
• Establish Management Information System

6. Organizational structure
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CEO
Cluster head Cluster head Cluster head
Manager Operations Accountant
Board of
Directors &
committees

7. Name of the Policy Contents of the Policy
Membership policy Guidelines for adding and managing members/shareholders: Refer to
AoA/By-laws
Procurement policy Commodity procurement guidelines, procurement processes and
formats
Human resource policy Recruitment procedures, Employee Performance Management
Financial policy Expense policy, financial and accounting systems
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Organizational Policies
An organizational policy is a set of guidelines and best practices put in place to protect the FPO and its
stakeholders

8. Human Resource Management
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Recruitment of
right
candidates for
jobs
1
Building their
capacities from
time to time
Periodic review
and appraisal of
the staff
Setting clear
objectives to the
staff based on job
description
Using work
organization
and MIS to
perform
effectively
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9. Recruitment procedure
Employing staff fairly and expertly, ensuring they are properly inducted, and ensuring they are
aware of the required standards of business conduct including below steps.
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Prepare job
description
1
Get Board
approval for
vacancies
Call and Conduct
Interview
Advertisement of
post and
shortlisting of
resumes
Hire and give
contracts
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