Human Capital Development: The Harley-Davidson Way
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Case Details:
Case Code : HROB096
Case Length : 14 Pages
Period : 1992-2007
Pub Date : 2007
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : Harley-Davidson
Industry : Automobile - Motorcycles
Countries : US
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"The biggest takeaway [to my experience in a circle
organization] is that ... [positive] change will happen as long as you don' try
to force it your way. If you lead participative change, it will work."
- Richard F. Teerlink, Former CEO, Harley-Davidson Motor
Company, in February 2003.
"The recovery of this company since the 1980s has been
truly remarkable... According to management and labor, one of the reasons you're
the best-managed company in America is that you have a genuine partnership
between labor and management, where all employees are valuable and expected to
make good decisions on their own for the benefit of the common enterprise. And I
thank you for setting that example. I wish every manufacturer in America would
model it."
- Bill Clinton, Former President of United States, in his
Speech at Harley-Davidson Assembly Plant, York, Pennsylvania on November 10,
1999.
Introduction
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In 2006, Harley-Davidson Motor Company (H-D), the leading manufacturer of
heavy-weight motorcycles in the United States (US), implemented the 'Accenture
Human Capital Development Framework' (HCDF).
This initiative was undertaken by H-D in order to bring about improvements in
its human resource (HR) functions, and thereby attain improved business
performance.
This was the second time that the HCDF framework was being implemented in the
company, the first time being in 2004.
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Another major HR initiative that H-D adopted to encourage greater employee
participation and collaboration in 1992 was the circle organization.
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The rationale behind creating such circles was to
come out of the command-and-control leadership style of management
and foster teamwork among the employees. H-D took these initiatives
after the company's new management realized that in order to survive
in a highly competitive market in the long run, it was essential to
make the company a continuous learning and improving organization
where there was free and open communication between all levels of
the employees.
Each and every employee, it felt, should be able to comprehend their
roles in the company and the consequence of their roles to the
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