MILWAUKEE — Harley-Davidson Inc. said Tuesday it will reduce its salaried workforce by several hundred positions, mostly by the end of the year. The company has about 3,775 salaried employees, including 1,060 at its Milwaukee headquarters. “An early retirement incentive program will be offered to eligible employees in advance of what we believe will be
Congratulations – you’ve landed a new job! It’s easy to think that after having aced the interview, negotiated a great package and set your start date that the hard work is done. Of course you should celebrate your victory, but don’t spend too long basking in the glory of your success because there is still
Sometimes the signs that you’re in a poor work situation are unclear. After all, not every employee/employer misfit is as telltale as the 2011 comedy Horrible Bosses. So, we’ve put together five straightforward signs that you’re in the wrong job. Take a look and, if you find that one or more apply, it just might
It’s safe to say that like many of us, your ultimate goal is to get ahead in your career. Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to do that – without stepping on others to get where you want to be! The truth is, mental toughness is typically a foregone conclusion in the professional sports arena, entrepreneurial
Would you say your career trajectory parallels that of climbing a ladder? Or one strategically driven by selecting more lateral opportunities? According to Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg, this answer is often determined by your gender. Just shy of its one year anniversary in circulation, people are still talking about Ms. Sandberg’s New York Times best selling book
All of our life we are told to WORK HARD. In America, part of the collective narrative is if we work hard good things will happen for us. Well, what happens when hard work is not enough? The world is littered with the broken dreams of ambitious people who worked hard and never achieved their
The recession has affected almost every industry, including the financial industry. It’s a smart move to get in a career that has some longevity in our changing future. Here are five careers in finance that have a bright outlook. 1. Risk Management Analyst Risk is a significant word in the financial world. The importance of
An aging population, deteriorating environmental conditions, and the government’s push for making sure everyone has medical insurance all contribute to enormous job growth in the healthcare field. Even some careers you may never have heard of are well on their way to becoming common in medical facilities. Here are the top five emerging careers in
Are you bored in your current role, but aren’t quite sure how to get promoted? Do you look at your boss and think you could do his/her job? Perhaps you’re already thinking of the next move. The most obvious route for career progression is still the tried and tested linear approach, where you strive to
Q: Two years ago, our department got a new director who came from another business. “Rick” gradually brought in more employees from his previous company, and they now make up a rather large group. These people all enjoy socializing and often attend parties and ballgames together. After awhile, I began to notice that Rick’s friends
Business writer Tom Peters once said, “A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand.” At the heart of expanding your social graph and reinventing yourself is an unquenchable desire to learn—a mindset that
Do Today’s Grown-Up Workers Still Care About Their Childhood Dreams? What Was Your Dream Job? “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Children are asked this question even before the start of kindergarten. They speak longingly and sincerely of becoming doctors, teachers, astronauts, ballerinas, rock stars, professional athletes and jet pilots. But
Knowing Your Hiring Personality Makes You a Better Interviewer People Relate to Themselves Whether you recognize it or not, most hiring managers have a hiring style that is more reflective of who they are as a person, and not necessarily reflective of the companies for which they work. However, like a duck drawn to water,
How to Handle the Departure of Irate Employees Exit Interviews with Irate Employees Are Tricky For the most part, exit interviews are an excellent opportunity for employers to have a final conversation with their departing employees. They can be used to gain perspective from an employee on how well the team is working together and
Handled the Right Way, Problem Employees Can Become Valuable Contributors Fix the Problem the Right Way For the most part, your team is great. They like to collaborate and share ideas, they’re supportive, and they’re (fairly) punctual. (They even got you a Happy Birthday Colossal Crumbs cupcake for your birthday!) But there is one employee
Employees Who Work from Home Need Your Time & Energy Too Create and Maintain a Remote Workforce While it may seem like a massive challenge to manage remote employees, it can actually be quite similar to overseeing an in-office staff. Find out how to effectively manage a remote workforce with these tips. 6. Implement a
Conflicting Personality Styles Could be the Cause of Workplace Strife Managers, Not Babysitters Research shows that 60-80% of trouble in the workplace is due to strained relationships among employees, not from issues with their skills or motivation. Not surprisingly, as a result, typical managers spend 25-40% of their time dealing with conflicts. No one wants
What a Waste Your employees are paid to provide a service, so ideally they would clock in for a designated number of hours and work as hard as they can in that time to produce maximum productivity and results. But since we’re dealing with human beings and not robots, we all know that’s not the
The intent of this article is to explain the components of an Employee Stock Option Plan to Human Resources professionals and managers that may need to explain the complexities of a plan to employees. Stock option plans are the large contracts that govern stock options programs. Stock option agreements are the individual options grants, vesting
Pay Structures A company’s pay structure is the method of administering its pay philosophy. The two leading types of pay structures are the internal equity method, which uses a tightly constructed grid to ensure that each job is compensated according to the jobs above and below it in a hierarchy, and market pricing, where each
