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Why is it necessary to motivate employees on a poultry farm?
It is necessary to motivate employees on a poultry farm so as to:
 Promote labor efficiency and productivity.
 Reduce labor unrest/indiscipline among workers.
 Promote hard work.
 Promote retention of workers/to reduce labor turnover.
 Ensure production of quality output.
 Minimize on resource wastage.
 Enable an enterprise promote good public relations with its associates/publics.
 Maintain an organization at a competitive advantage over other firms.
 Effectively carry out sales promotion since staff motivation is a good tool of sales promotion.
 Enable workers meet their needs so as to live a better standard of life..
 Relieve workers of stress through organizing periodic staff parties, picnics and get togethers..
 Promote good employer-employee relations.
 Enable works positively contribute towards completing a desired activity or achieving a goal r a
set position..
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Encourage the employee start identifying him/herself with the business, ideas and objectives
which inspires him/her t even perform better.
Ways of motivating employees on a Poultry Farm
 By showing genuine respect to the individuality and dignity of workers.
 By praising workers (of course loudly) and blaming/punishing workers whenever necessary or
appropriate (punishment should, however, be done as the last resort).
 Avoiding leading employees to temptation.
 Involving workers in decision making.
 Promoting workers strictly on merit or objectively.
 Through job enlargement i.e. giving workers more interesting but challenging tasks to
accomplish.
 Assuring workers of job security.
 By giving workers non-monetary benefits or fringe benefits.
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