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18 THE RURAL VOICE
the management team or among
members of the management team,
and 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 personal blowups,"
Erven cautioned.
Managers must lead, he wrote.
Planning, organizing staffing and
controlling can substitute to some
extent for leadership and delegation
of authority and responsibility and
empowering employees can decrease
the need for leadership but "No
group of people comes close to its
potential without effective
leadership."
On the subject of discipline, Erven
wrote that employees must have clear
rules and regulations and know what
the disciplinary consequences are of
potential misconduct. Managers need
to understand the steps in progressive
discipline and how to discipline
without the emphasis being on
punishment.
Human resources management
tools required include:
• Job analysis and job design
• Wt iting job descriptions
• Recruiting
• Interviewing and using other
selection tools
• Orientation and training
• Motivation
• Performance appraisal
• Compensation and benefits
If all efforts to encourage
employees have been exhausted and
the employee must be let go, Jim
Loucks of Clearwater Pork, Inc. at
Port Elgin provided information on
how to make the break.
"We procrastinate about getting it
done. It's very painful," he said, "but
when you get it done its better.
Production is better."
The key to preventing this kind of
painful experience is proper hiring,
Loucks said. If you don't interview
properly you may hire people who
aren't suitable and aren't going to
like the work. "If they understand
what's expected they will walk away
if they don't fit your needs."
Loucks advocated an employee
manual including the job description,
the wages and benefits, policies and
procedures and employee