The author wishes to thank Mervin Freeman and Erlin Weness, Area Extension Agents for their assistance in the development of these publications. With rapidly changing technology, farm job requirements will likely require more skills. Managing people is often more complex and less predictable than other management responsibilities. Current people management situation in farming. Importance of good personnel management.
Businesses succeed only when the people within the organization succeed at their individual job.
The size and type of your business. Outside factors such as your labor market, laws and regulations, etc. Each employee's goals, needs and desires. As a manager of your workers in this situation, there are a number of responsibilities that must be performed - see center box of Figure 1. Parts II to IV of this series will focus on helping you to carry out each of these responsibilities more effectively.