Employee Development

• To mitigate external and internal pressures, we have worked toward building vitality and visibility in our talent pipeline. We leverage the talent we bring into our organization through our futurefocused, individualized performance management practices.
• Our people deserve more than a rating, so we empower them to own and drive their personal and professional development within the context of our overall business plan so that real needs, not rules, are met. We use accomplishments, aspirations, and challenges to qualitatively determine development needs.
• Our Leadership Development strategy, “Leading, The Kimball Way,” is grounded in research about effective behavior change and leadership development.
• Since the initial rollout of Leading, The Kimball Way in 2018, we have successfully assessed more than 1,182 employees through the Predictive Index tool and managed over 800 personal development plans via our human resources information system, Workday.

Workplace Flexibility

We apply workplace and work time flexibility strategies (dependent care leave, hybrid or remote work, compressed work weeks) and focus on reducing part-time work assignments to promote and support our team members’ physical, mental, and financial well-being.

Open, Non-Defensive Communication

• In support of open, non-defensive communication, our Guiding Principles, and our Open Door Policy, employees are encouraged to report potential violations of our Code of Conduct via various company management contacts. Or they can utilize an anonymous, confidential, third-party ethics “hotline” reporting system.
• Our investigatory process is prompt, impartial, and transparent to those involved.
• For each of the five reports to our hotline during 2022, we opened dialogues with the reporting parties, began investigations within 24 hours of receipt, and completed necessary investigations and actions in less than seven days.
• KE promptly investigates all reports and does not retaliate nor tolerate retaliation against any person or entity who, in good faith, makes a report or cooperates in an investigation.
• Any person or entity that retaliates or threatens retaliation against anyone who makes a report or cooperates in an investigation is subject to discipline, up to and including immediate termination of the relationship with KE.
• Within the framework of law, regulations, and prevailing labor relations and employment practices, we respect each employee’s right to make an informed decision, free of coercion, about membership in associations and/ or labor unions. Where employees are represented by a legally recognized labor union or other employee organization, we establish a constructive dialogue and engage in negotiations or consultation as required with their freely chosen representatives. We provide written documentation to our employees about their wages and terms and conditions of employment, and we do so wherever possible in their native languages.

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