Participants need to be rewarded for achievements through the efforts of the team. The team leader is a facilitator and is not expected to have all the answers. The purpose of the team is to be more effective than an individual. Too many times managers spend time doing the jobs that someone can be hired to do at the minimum wage rate and letting critical marketing and financial management decisions go undone. Employees cannot be neglected.
Successful management begins with employee considerations.
The best trained and most motivated personnel often do not stay in agriculture. This makes participatory management even more valuable. Continued training, employee reward systems, benefit packages and living conditions that make a ranch job as favorable as possible will pay off in employee retention. Often it's the spouse and children and their education that have to be part of the total package. The high cost of maintaining employees means they have to be efficient and effective in their jobs.