Attributing the ability to motivate people to nothing more than a natural gift understates how hard the best human resource managers work to develop this skill. Managers must learn to deal with conflict rather than avoid it. Avoiding the conflict and its causes simply postpones the pain and agony that come from personnel blowups. Conflict management strategies provide the management team positive steps for addressing the conflict. Effectiveness with the strategies is an essential skill.
Most employees have a fervent desire for information about their performance.
Many supervisors find it extremely difficult to share performance evaluations in an honest and helpful manner. Employees dread poorly done evaluations and evaluation interviews. Supervisors lacking evaluation skills combat their frustrations by postponement, inflated evaluations and vague communication. Conclusion People and risk are as integral to farming and ranching as are weather, prices and technology. Human resources must have careful attention if managers are to have a full understanding of their sources of risks and alternatives for handling risk.