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Jim Tracy was out of baseball when Clint Hurdle called last October to talk to him about joining Hurdle's staff in Colorado. Tracy was focused on his duties as bench coach for the Rockies when he came to spring training.
Not many stories this year have touched a nerve with readers as much as executive compensation.
Female managers are 137 percent more likely to experience sexual harassment than their rank-and-file counterparts, according to a new study.
Two senior investment managers have been hired by the company overseeing Harvard University's endowment, which has absorbed a steep drop in value during the recession.
A judge has kept an asset freeze in place at two Detroit-area financial firms where managers are accused of orchestrating a $53 million Ponzi scheme.
Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith and St. Louis third base coach Jose Oquendo will serve as managers for the All-Star Futures Game.
The Treasury Department on Wednesday selected three management firms to handle bank assets obtained as part of the $700 billion financial rescue program.
Even in the best of times, teenagers face plenty of hurdles when they look for summer jobs. Would-be employers often worry that they’ll be undependable, late and generally flaky — and teens must convince prospective bosses that they’re actually reliable and responsible.
Stephen Staffieri of New York always considered himself pretty stylish, but he started to wonder about his look after several job interviews led nowhere.
The Boston Globe plans to eliminate bonuses for more than 200 managers and executives, including its publisher, as part of a cost-cutting effort at the struggling newspaper.
Business managers who are taken hostage at their companies by disgruntled workers must defy them and refuse to "start negotiations with a gun at the head," the leader of a French business federation said Friday.
Mary Ortega of Wilmington, Del., has been on 40 interviews for marketing and public relations jobs in the last 10 months.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could spray a magic potion on a hiring manager during an interview to make him or her fall in love with you? As a job candidate, that is.
Joe Maddon had a good reason for interrupting his honeymoon. About an hour after he landed in Rome, the newly married Maddon easily won the American League Manager of the Year award Wednesday for guiding Tampa Bay from baseball's basement to the World Series in one astonishing season.
For more than a decade, Ron Weston worked as an architect for Hillier Architecture, one of the biggest architecture firms in the United States. So he was a bit nervous about his future when a global architectural powerhouse, U.K.-based RMJM, acquired the firm last year.
Thomas, a 60-year old project manager for a construction company, knows there’s a possibility for layoffs at his firm because of the sagging housing market. And Brandon, a customer service representative for a phone company in Oregon that’s about to be bought out by a telecommunication’s giant, fears his days may be numbered.
Robert, a physical therapist from Wilmington, Del., says he doesn’t like to talk about politics at work because sometimes the discussions get “too volatile.” But in the same breath he launches into how interesting the race for the White House is this time around given that an African-American and a woman are running.
The day after Kate Massey’s grandmother died last September, the only thing on her mind, other than grief, was how she was going to take time off for the funeral and the wake.
Cleveland's Eric Wedge has been voted the AL Manager of the Year and Arizona's Bob Melvin has been voted the NL Manager of the Year.
Dog dies after being set on fire -Managers of an apartment complex say someone lit their dog on fire and they think it was meant as retaliation. The dog died one week after the incident.
There seem to be a number of people, here at Newsvine and elsewhere, you are hardwired to the belief that all is on the up and up with American business, that employers are benevolent masters who are merely looking out for the interests of the company as well as the welfare of th …
In the simplest explanation, managers are key bridges within organisations. They are the essential link between senior executives and the other employees and, as such, they play a pivotal role in the smooth running of any establishment.
After discussing Lou Piniella's first ejection of the season in my last entry, I can't help but show you the spectacular footage of Rome Braves manager Randy Ingle going absolutely nuts after being tossed from a Single-A game recently:
* Despite all the Cubs' problems, yesterday's ejection was amazingly Lou Piniella's first of the season. In fact, it was his first time being tossed since July of last year. Milton Bradley would probably disagree, but perhaps Sweet Lou is mellowing in his mid-60s?
I'm not a Mets fan. But if I was I would be calling for Jerry Manuel's head right now. This man should not be the manager of the team after that 9th inning.
By beating the A's last night Joe Torre moved past Hall of Famer Sparky Anderson for fifth place on the all-time wins list with 2,195.
* Former Yankees, Indians, Cubs, and Giants outfielder Mel Hall has been sentenced to 45 years in prison after being convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl who he coached on a basketball team.
Ozzie Guillen, on the White Sox's struggles offensively:
* Bobby Cox won his 2,000th game as Braves manager last night, becoming just the fourth manager in baseball history to reach 2,000 wins with one team. Connie Mack of the A's, John McGraw of the Giants, and Walter Alston of the Dodgers are the other three.
How do you feel today? Happy? Zippy? Valued? Neglected? Unappreciated? Depressed? Terrible?
Astros owner Drayton McLane, on speculation that manager Cecil Cooper is on the verge of being fired:
Q. What do you do when someone criticize you, your work, your behavior and attitude so much that you feel as if that person is literally tearing you into pieces?
Indians manager Eric Wedge, on speculation that his job may be in danger thanks to the team's 12-21 start:
A poll titled "Do Men or Women Make Better Mangers" is under way and sparking some interesting comments (link below). The logical next poll about gender differences in the workplace is this one.
These Big Companies Are Actively Hiringt's no secret that many big companies are announcing mass layoffs and pay cuts in the recession. With 5.1 million jobs lost nationwide since 2008, and the current unemployment rate at the 25-year high of 8.5%, it's easy to feel down about the battered labor market.
A recent MSN article suggests one gender "frequently has the edge" as managers. Participate in this poll to see if this holds true.
The checkout girl: abused, ignored and on a till near youNotice anything the last time you went to the supermarket? An irritatingly long queue, perhaps? Or a mispriced product? But what about the woman - it was almost certainly a woman - at the checkout, performing one of the most thankless tasks in modern society? Did you return her g …
Bad managers cited as top reason for quittingEven in an economy that is cutting jobs, executives still view employee retention as their No. 1 concern, but bad managers get the blame for most defections, according to a Robert Half International survey.
Survey says: You are a slackerA new survey of 9,255 employees, hiring managers and HR professionals has uncovered this shocker -- you slack off at work.
Expanding the Concept of "Labor"At present, there's a great trick afoot: the labor of the so-called working class and most of the white collar class enriches the executive few. Laborers and most managers, therefore, are brothers and sisters who just haven't realized it yet.
Joe You-Know-Who Gets a ManagerIf he gets his way, Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, also known as "Joe the Plumber," plans to enjoy a lot more than just 15 minutes of fame. Two weeks after emerging as the Republican Party's favorite proxy for the American working man, Mr.
Male bosses act like monkeys to assert their dominance Male managers act like members of the animal kingdom, particularly monkeys and chimpanzees, according to new research.
1 in 5 Employers Use Web, Social Networks to Research Job Applicants; 1/3 Dropped from Contention Afterwards... A new study reveals that one in five hiring managers utilize the Web and social networks to screen new potential applicants.
Foreign patients owe millions to the British NHS as treatment bills go unpaid |Hospitals' budgets stretched after having to write off huge overseas debts Foreign patients are costing the NHS tens of millions of pounds by giving hospitals false identities and addresses, or even leaving the country in order to avoid paying for their treatment.
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