Pro-Dairy MILK PRODUCTION RECORDS FOR MANAGEMENT CONTROL

A.E. Ext. 89-23This booklet contains a management control tool for measuring and reporting milk production. The tables and grids for recording and graphing daily milk production are on the following pages. The last page contains a table and grid for recording and graphing monthly information that can be obtained from your milk check

Pro-Dairy Farm Management Planner

A.E. Ext. 89-24MANAGEMENT Plans & Controls • Time cannot be managed. • Only peoples activities can be managed. 0 We have all the time there is. • We can waste it or use it productively. • If we make a plan and control the events of our lives day by day, we can look back and see the accomplishment of our objectives and goals

Management Control Clinic

A.E. Ext. 89-25Controlling is the function of management which is designed to ensure that events conform to plans. To be effective, a control system must focus on the presentit must be correction and solution centered as opposed to mistake centered, and it must be specific in the sense that it concentrates on key factors that affect results. Control is universal in that it covers all phases of the farm's operations. The four essential elements of a control system include: the presence of measurable standards in each goala system of reportinginterpretation and evaluation of informationand corrective action. In many cases, control systems have resulted in creating some unintended negative human responses both in ourselves and in those who work with us. When this occurs the reasons most often lie in the way the system is managed. For example, if a climate of punishment or "shoulding" on one self rather than a climate of help and support exists, people will react negatively. Similarly if people perceive a threat they will work to defeat the system. To prevent negative reactions to control systems requires that everyone understands the purpose of controls, that they work in a climate of help and support, and that they receive continual feedback