Don’t Get “Cooked In The Squat!”

Kevin Grindle

Kevin is a Leadership Strategies, LLC partner and has over 20 years of operations and human resources management experience in the automotive aftermarket industry. Kevin has owned and operated multiple businesses and serves as an active Board member. He holds Sociology and Communication degrees and is certified as a Professional in Human Resources from The Society for Human Resource Management. Some of Kevin’s primary areas of specialty are organizational design/effectiveness, employee relations, executive search, training and development, coaching and mentoring, career transition, total reward system design, human asset analysis, mergers and acquisitions, employee assessments and human capital retention

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Many organizations make the mistake of knowingly or unknowingly rewarding the wrong types of activities. We are aware of one organization that rewards its buyers for purchasing distressed inventory that sits in warehouses never to be sold, so that the organization can receive six figure kickbacks from vendors that are then posted to their financial statements in some cases. Beyond the legal and ethical implications of this practice, the message that this activity sends to rest of the organization regarding how the business should be run is devastating.

Recommended Solution: Reward systems must be structured in such a way as to reward rightful behavior. Rewarding behavior that has a negative impact to the financial success of the organization cannot be allowed to happen. Reward systems that we develop always have a direct connection to the organization’s bottom-line results and reward employees who contribute to the organization’s short and long-term success.