EditorialContractor Achieves Good Employee Retention by Avoiding Micromanaging

Contractor Achieves Good Employee Retention by Avoiding Micromanaging

A Michigan electric company strays from its origins to find significant success in plumbing and sewer work

  • Appeared in print as "Shifting Gears"
  • By Ken Wysocky
  • July 2024
  • Cover Story
Contractor Achieves Good Employee Retention by Avoiding Micromanaging
Contractor Achieves Good Employee Retention by Avoiding Micromanaging Contractor Achieves Good Employee Retention by Avoiding Micromanaging Contractor Achieves Good Employee Retention by Avoiding Micromanaging Contractor Achieves Good Employee Retention by Avoiding Micromanaging Contractor Achieves Good Employee Retention by Avoiding Micromanaging Contractor Achieves Good Employee Retention by Avoiding Micromanaging Contractor Achieves Good Employee Retention by Avoiding Micromanaging Contractor Achieves Good Employee Retention by Avoiding Micromanaging Contractor Achieves Good Employee Retention by Avoiding Micromanaging Contractor Achieves Good Employee Retention by Avoiding Micromanaging

Order Digital Reprints

Want a PDF of this article as it appeared in print?
Order Here!

Filed Under

Michigan Plumbing Drain Cleaning Business Growth Pipe Lining Pipeline Rehabilitation Pipe Bursting Supreme Corporation Spartan Tool LLC ServiceTitan RIDGID Picote Solutions Perma-Liner Industries Morgan Corporation Milwaukee Tool J&M Products Isuzu Commercial Truck of America American Pipelining Supplies

Sign Me Up!

Join your colleagues who already get great content delivered right to their inbox.

Sign up Digital!
If you don't want to bring your iPad into the bathroom, we can send you a magazine subscription for free!

Subscribe to Print!
Contractor Achieves Good Employee Retention by Avoiding Micromanaging

Marcus Piwonski, co-owner of Hoover Electric, Plumbing, Heating & Cooling, with some of the company’s 74 employees at the Hoover shop in Troy, Michigan.

When Gary Hoover established Hoover Electric back in 1980, the company only did new-construction electrical work.

But in the ensuing decades, the company — now owned by Hoover’s sons-in-law, Marcus Piwonski and Matt Hedges — has completely reinvented itself, as evidenced by...

Please login or register to view Cleaner articles. It's free, fast and easy!

Popular Stories

June 27, 2024 Get Accurate, Reliable Landings With HammerHead's HELIAM Scrim Liner
Get Accurate, Reliable Landings With HammerHead's HELIAM Scrim Liner
June 27, 2024 Employee Empowerment Translates to Employee Retention
Employee Empowerment Translates to Employee Retention
June 25, 2024 Minnesota Contractor Singles Out Pipe Lining as Smartest Technology Investment
Minnesota Contractor Singles Out Pipe Lining as Smartest Technology Investment
June 20, 2024 SewerAI Completes New Round of Funding to Further Modernize Sewer Inspection Using AI Tech
SewerAI Completes New Round of Funding to Further Modernize Sewer Inspection Using AI Tech
June 19, 2024 Addressing America's Water Insecurity: 46 Million Without Safe Drinking Water
Addressing America's Water Insecurity: 46 Million Without Safe Drinking Water
June 19, 2024 Keep Your Nozzles Organized With This Customer-Focused Solution
Keep Your Nozzles Organized With This Customer-Focused Solution

Discussion

Comments on this site are submitted by users and are not endorsed by nor do they reflect the views or opinions of COLE Publishing, Inc. Comments are moderated before being posted.