Onboarding Dairy Employees 2020: Safe, Productive and Engaged from Day One

August 18, 2020
Onboarding Dairy Employees 2020: Safe, Productive and Engaged from Day One

Onboarding Dairy Employees 2020: Safe, Productive and Engaged from Day One

The first days and weeks on the job set the course for a new farm employee. Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development is seeking dairy farmers to participate in the second year of an onboarding project funded by the New York Farm Viability Institute.

Farms in the Onboarding Project work closely with an adviser to customize a professional and legally-compliant new employee onboarding process, and to improve farm human resource management practices. Well planned onboarding leads to a successful long-term manager-employee relationship with higher employee retention, safety, productivity, and job satisfaction.

Use Employee Onboarding to achieve:

  1. COMPLIANCE. Basic compliance with regulations and policies.
  2. CLARITY. Training on safety, work procedures, and expectations.
  3. CULTURE. Communicate your farm's procedures, values, traditions and norms.
  4. CONNECTION. Help employees forge relationships at work and find their place to engage and thrive.

Over the next year, the Ag Workforce Development Team will partner with 25 farms in a three-session Zoom series to develop onboarding materials, trainings and methods.

If your farm is looking for a way to improve employee retention and increase overall productivity of employees, contact your local Cornell Cooperative Extension Educator or Richard Stup, Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development, at res396@cornell.edu.




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