Jill Jusko

Senior Editor
IndustryWeek

 

Focus: Operations & Workforce

Email: jjusko@industryweek.com
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Senior Editor Jill Jusko covers strategies and best practices in manufacturing workforce and operations leadership. She provides information about workforce compensation strategies, education and training, employee engagement and retention, and teamwork. Her coverage of operations excellence spotlights companies that have achieved world-class results in quality, productivity, cost and other benchmarks by implementing the latest continuous improvement and lean/Six Sigma strategies.

Jill also coordinates IndustryWeek’s Best Plants Awards Program, which annually salutes the leading manufacturing facilities in North America.

Jill has also served as the editorial project director for the IW/MPI Census of Manufacturers. She received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University. 

Articles by Jill Jusko
2013 IndustryWeek Salary Survey (slideshow)

The average base salary breached $100,000 in the 2013 IndustryWeek Salary Survey, and pay raises were the norm, not the exception. This slideshow accompanies "Salaries Remain Upward Bound," IW's March 2013 article on manufacturing management salaries.

2013 IW Salary Survey: Readers Comment on Pay, Talent Crisis
Survey respondents were happy, sad and angry about their manufacturing compensation, and concerned about the need for skilled workers.
manufacturing industry salaries
2013 IW Salary Survey: Salaries Remain Upward Bound
It is all about forward momentum when it comes to salaries and pay raises for manufacturing management, according to the 2013 IndustryWeek Salary Survey. Or perhaps the better description is "upward momentum."
Michelin North America onboarding process
Workforce: Successful Employees Require a Solid Start
Don't scrimp in onboarding new recruits. Doing so sets you and your new hire up for failure.
Reliability centered maintenance
Operations: A C-level Look at Maintenance
Maintenance is not typically the topic of a C-suite conversation. Indeed, its impact on manufacturing operations frequently is underappreciated altogether, some would argue.
employee recognition programs
Workforce: The ROI of Employee Recognition
If your company’s reward and recognition program does not boost corporate performance as much as you would like, it may be your own fault.
Performance Metrics, the levers for process management
Operations: The High Cost of Poor Decisions 1
Metrics may be a bedrock of operational improvement, but using them wisely continues to be a challenge.
preventing workplace violence
Operations: Review Workplace Violence Procedures, For Safety's Sake
According to the most recent data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, violence caused 780 fatalities in 2011, 458 of them homicides.
NLRB
Appeals Court Finds 'Recess' Appointments to NLRB Unconstitutional
The ruling drew swift reaction from the National Association of Manufacturers and others organizations, which have argued that the federal labor board has been far exceeding its authority in recent years.
A Lockheed Martin team member applies sealant  to a Javelin missile body.
2012 IW Best Plants Winner: Engaged Teams Keep Lockheed Martin Delivering On Time, Every Time
Lockheed Martin says the success of its Pike County Operations is due in large part to an engaged workforce. "People make it happen here," says David Anderson, site director.
CNH manufacturing plant
2012 IW Best Plants Winner: A World Class Approach to Performance
Today, World Class Manufacturing is driving CNH's continuing performance improvements.
IW Best Plants Slideshow
2012 IW Best Plants Winners [SLIDESHOW]
View a slideshow of the winners of IndusryWeek's 2012 Best Plants program, including La-Z-Boy, Ethicon, Harris Products Group, and more.
IndustryWeek Best Plants 2012
2012 IW Best Plants Winners: Amazing Efforts, Amazing Achievements
For the 23rd consecutive year, IndustryWeek is pleased to present its annual salute to manufacturing excellence. The 2012 class of IndustryWeek's Best Plants winners demonstrates that operational excellence continues to prosper in manufacturing -- and manufacturers continue to strive for even greater performances.
Smaller companies must now comply with Dodd-Frank
Workforce: Say Hello to 'Say on Pay'
The deferral is over. For the past two proxy seasons, public companies have had to abide by SEC rules regarding shareholder approval of executive compensation -- so called "say on pay" votes -- under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
workplace bullying
Operations: New Year's Resolution - Stop Workplace Bullies
Do you have a formal workplace bullying policy in place at your company? If not, it may be a corporate resolution worth considering for 2013.

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