Human Resources
Barriers to Communications
Publish Date: April 19, 2012
Communication plays a most important role in employer-employee relationships on farm operations. It also affects the relationships among family members on the management team. Although effective communication does not guarantee success of a farm operation, its absence usually assures problems. A communication problem may soon become a disaster or it may linger on for years. No matter how good the communication systems in an operation are, communication barriers can and do often occur. This may be caused by a number of reasons that can usually be summarized as being due to physical barriers, system design faults, or additional barriers.
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Conflict Management Skills
Publish Date: April 18, 2011
Whenever choices exist there is potential for conflict. Such conflicts, when handled correctly, can result in effective, creative solutions and interactions. But unfortunately, it is difficult to consistently turn conflicts into opportunities for growth and improvement. When conflicts are inadequately dealt with, the result can be controversy. Controversy creates a sense of emotional distance between people, such as feelings of dislike, aggression, competition, alienation, and disregard.
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Creating a Job Application For Your Company
Publish Date: September 24, 2007
The job application form is usually the first step in the selection process when hiring employees. Job applications allow you to learn more information about the skills and abilities of the applicant. Completing a job application also helps the applicant to view this as a serious job. The purpose of this paper is to provide the information needed to create a job application for your company.
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Creating a Job Description
Publish Date: July 2, 2007
The main purpose of the job description is to provide the employee with an outline of their overall responsibilities.
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Creating an Effective Recruitment Advertisement
Publish Date: September 24, 2007
An effective recruitment advertisement can attract a prospective employee’s attention and should properly describe the position to be filled. Pork producers should use a variety of recruitment venues include print and web sites to enhance the probability of success. You want to give job applicants every possible option available to apply for the position. Make sure that all of your recruitment advertising provides more than one way for applicants contact you and submit resumes. Often writing an ad can seem difficult when starting from scratch therefore this publication includes sample ads to help get you started.
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