B4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 5,1980
Fringe benefits are big factor in dairy wages
BY PAT KAUFFMAN
LANCASTER - Farm
employee relations are once
again the topic of an in
terview with Lancaster
dairy agent, Glenn Shirk.
Glenn talks about people
managers.
Glenn, in a dairy farm
employee relationship, what
are the problems farmers
often encounter 9
I think that farmers run
into difficulty when they fail
to put themselves in their
44 When you underpay a fellow,
you invite poor performance ...
workers’ shoes. Farm
laborers are people. A
dairyman must deal with his
employees as people. They
respond to the same com
pliments and rewards as any
other person. A dairyman
must ask himself what he
would expect in recognition,
compliments, challenges,
fringe benefits, working
conditions and time off.
What steps should a
dairyman who works with an
employee take to ensure a
successful relationship?
When working with people,
a dairyman must realize
that an employee will have
more desire to do his best
and put forth the extra effort
required when he’s offered
some kind of bonus or in
centive.
A dairy employee is not
just a farm laborer or lured
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help, he’s an essential part of
the business and must feel
important and take pride in
what he’s doing.
I think it’s worth men
tioning here that when you
underpay a fellow you invite
poor performance and
dissatisfaction. A good man
well paid doing a good job
can be very inexpensive. A
man underpaid doing an
unsatisfactory job and
dissatisfied can be much
more costly to the operation.
Are there any attitudes
that a dairyman could
develop that would ease the
road to better employee
relations’
Extra help gives the
dairyman time to manage
and to look at ways to build
and improve his operation. It
gives him time to get outside
and explore. If he needs a
vacation, it gives him a
chance to get away and
come back rested and ready
to do the job.
A dairyman should choose
competent employees and
tram them well. Then he
must resolve himself to the
fact that things may not get
done exactly as he would do
them. This is part of the
price he pays for his time off.
He must resolve himself not
to worry about it. If a
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must go with the confidence
that the milker can take care
of it.
Rather than worrying
about the operation, the
dairyman should use his
tune to best advantage. For
instance if he is in the cow
breeding business, he can
use his breaks to develop and
market his cattle. He can get
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