HR Management Tools for Ag Advisers

1. Change Management

How to make a proposal to an employer in order to effect change

2. Personnel and Positions: The HR component to business planning

a. Organizational charts

• Concept Summary
• Examples
• Worksheets
• Resources

b. Job descriptions

• Concept Summary
• Example and Worksheet #1
• Example and Worksheet #2
• Powerpoint "Job Descriptions as Tools for Communication"
• Resources
• Job Description Generator
• Job Description Newsletter Article

c. Help Wanted ads

• Concept Summary
• Tipsheets and Worksheets #1
• Tipsheet and Worksheets #2
  
• Resources

d. Recruitment and selection of qualified workers

• Employee Recruitment and Selection: How to Hire the Right People (pdf)
  
• Powerpoint "Employee Recruitment and Selection"
  

3. Performance Management - Organizing the workplace to support employee performance: standards, procedures, and feedback systems

a. Standard operating procedures

• Concept Summary
• Tipsheets and Worksheets #1
• Tipsheets and Worksheets #2
  
• Newsletter Article
• Resources
  

b. Performance reviews

• Concept Summary
• Tipsheets and Worksheets #1
• Tipsheets and Worksheets #2
• Tipsheets and Worksheets #3

c. Motivation

• Concept Summary
• Tipsheets and Worksheets #1
• Tipsheets and Worksheets #2
• Newsletter Article
  
• Resources
  

d.Training programs for safety and productivity

• Orientation and Training Presentation
• Orientation and Training from the Ground Up

4. Leadership

a. Move the Team from Me...To We (ppt)

b. Coaching

5. The Hispanic Workforce

a. Developing cross-cultural understanding

• Resources

b. Meeting employee needs

• Resources

c. Regulatory compliance

• Resources

6. Immigration Reform

a. Offshore labor sources

b. Paperwork to understand

c. Enforcement

7. Succession Planning

a. Management development

b. Succession Planning