Pros
The Ewing office is a nice facility. Summer hours and casual Friday's help employees rationalize their decision to stick it out. The employee bonus program helps the overall compensation package to be competitive with the peer marketplace. The stock options for managers reward total corporate performance, which has been good on average for the last 15 years. Perhaps not as good recently unless the CEO can convince the board to accept a plan that is just high enough to be credible, but also low enough to be beatable.
Cons
CHD Openly criticize their large and effective competitors as a strategy to illustrate to Wall Street and their own staff that they are not going to lie down and be pushed around. Sales management intimidate and bully their own staff in addition to all other departments to act like a bigger company, without the necessary resources. As a result everyone tip toes around the top sales leader in fear of public humiliation, demotion or termination if they can't pull rabbits out of a hat. Mercurial behavior at the highest level make it hard to focus on business problem solving without serious consideration pertaining to retributive consequences. The Sales team openly blame their failures on marketing incompetence and marketing blame sales for inability to execute effectively. Too much time is spent on attacking and defending internal issues. HR, while doing an effective job of administrating employee benefits, are powerless to intervene in the political infighting and bad behavior demonstrated at the highest levels.