Förändringar i skogsbranschens organisation på 1990-talet

In 1993 Sweden introduced a new Forest policy, with a larger freedom of action for the forest owners, but in the same time the forest owners are expected to take greater consideration of the forests and the environment, that is required by the law. This is necessary to be able to obtain the goals of the new policy. Therefore the demand for competence and guidance is larger than before. At the same period of time organisations where slimmed and trimmed during a economic recession and the question is how this has affected the number of employees on different levels in the organisations, the competence of the employees and their internal education and if these changes affects the possibility of implementing the forest policy. This study contains three points in time where measures were made, 1990, 1995 and 2000. Totally 30 persons were chosen at the central offices at forest companies, at forest owner foundations, at trade associations and at church dioceses. They received a questionnaire by post and the answers were gathered by phone. 67% replayed on the questionnaire. The results were grouped by year, organisational level and by type of organisation. The study showed that the number of regions had decreased, with 80% at the companies and with 50% at the forest owner foundations, between 1990 and 2000. The number of districts had also decreased during the same period, hut not quite as much (-50 %). The number of employees decreased, with totally 77% between 1990 and 2000. The largest decrease occurred on the central level of the organisation and the least decrease at the regions. The decrease was largest between 1990 and 1995 and largest at the forest companies. The number of cutting teams decreased like the number of persons in every team. The number of employed with operative work in the forest have also decreased in al organisations. The number of employed with direct contact with forest owners at a daily basis have decreased as weIl, with exception from the forest