Workplace
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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Absent and Tardy Employees
Publish Date: November 8, 2010
Employees that are absent and tardy to work are major concerns for farm owners, supervisors and managers. Too much management time is spent on problems related to attendance and too many farm supervisors and managers tend to be casual about it. That will not work. You need a plan. Here are things that actually encourage poor attendance: • Out of date leave policies under which employees lose unused leave. Scrap the old“use it-or-lose it”policy. • Employee awareness of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) • “Flexible scheduling”that makes it hard to see who is tardy and who is absent
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