Handleman Reviews

Pros

Good company to work for. The atmosphere was conducive and allowed people to do their best. Great talent at Handleman.

Cons

Corporate strategy was Handleman's demise. Their strategy of being the last people in the distributing physical music (CDs) lead them to bankruptcy. It's a shame because so many talented workers.

Advice to Senior Management

My advice would have been to diversify their company portfolio. Senior management was too interested in their retirement versus doing what was right to change in the industry and to do what was right for their lifelong employees.

Pros

Great people, great environment. Loved working at my branch

Cons

The company is downsizeing and going out of business

Advice to Senior Management

Open up communications wider within the company, The biggest reason the company is having problems is that it seems to try and keep everything under the hat at corporate

Pros

Going to work every day and enjoing the work

Cons

Non, no complaints here at all

Advice to Senior Management

non

Pros

There are absolutely no pros to working for Handleman Company unless you are/were one of the chosen few. If so, you would be given "vice president" titles and obscenely disproportionate salaries based not on merit but on who you knew in the power seats.

Cons

No loyalty to employees
No upper management integrity
No career development program
Employee contributions not recognized or valued
No work/life balance
Poor benefits

Advice to Senior Management

Handleman needs to look at the damage they've done to hundreds of key employees by handing over the reins to the group from REPS LTD. The people who comprise upper management at REPS are a looked at with disdain by legitimate players in the industry and have run Handleman into the ground.

Pros

Great work employer, very supporting management, small company so lots of opportunities to work in other departments

Cons

Not very nimble. Hence good ideas are not picked and implemented quickly.

Advice to Senior Management

Get more innovative managers into the ranks. There are lots people who have been working for years and seem to be out of ideas for the current business model

Pros

Fair to employees; Treated people with respect

Cons

Company has been disintermediated by trends in music distribution

Advice to Senior Management

Need to get out in front of industry trends that can affect long-term viability of company