Timken reviews about "training"

Process has been very slow right from the begining

Culture which is so busy patting itself on the back for recent slow change it fails to realize that the real future challenges call for dynamic and innovative ideas. With retirements, unfortunately a (small) number of inept managers are being promoted to lead teams, but with little to no training, and often because they kept their head down, never challenged or question direction from above even if obviously flawed (in certain instances). But, there are others who have great potential to be leaders - Timken just needs a better system to get the right people in those positions consistently! Organization has a major issue with labeling those who leave the company, but are high performers, as 'they had a problem', or 'clearly it was not something wrong with Timken that drove them away'. This kind of asinine thinking is what happens when you recruit most of you managers from a 50 mile radius of the corporate headquarters in Canton, Ohio. Perhaps you can stem the revenue stagnation analysts criticize Timken for by challenging the status quo. I can only hope as a current employee that the leaders of the organization do this so the stock won't get hammered in the event we struggle to hit our lofty long term future growth projections reported to Wall St. Inappropriate management of incentives and allowance of old school culture to persist breed arrogance, perhaps unwarranted. If there is one thing that could bring down this company, it will be the allowance of people cheering for strategic market moves, forgetting that humility must be involved to some degree to capture and break into new markets to continue needed growth paths.

this is the worst company to work for. they treat their employees like slaves. forced to work long hours and long weeks while management get to be off with their families. they use temp agents to fill in at half the salary with min training with no hope of being hired in. the management talks down to the employees and this company has no ethics.

- Late adopter for new technology

Too much politics from the top of the organization down. There are some good people in middle and upper management positions, but most of the people should not be in those roles and simply got into those positions because they are a member of Timken's "old boys' network". The company does not do enough to retain good talent or provide good upward mobility. Succession planning is only done for top positions, but not mid-management levels. With the forced upcoming split of the company, most employees are told what positions they are going into and do not have the ability to have a say in whether they will go into bearing or steel and what they will do. Some do not even know what their titles or salaries will be when they are forced to work in steel. The company does not rid of employees who behave unethically. Their helpline, organizational advancement / HR and ethics departments are useless.