A former Costco executive was tired of attacking the DEI policy of the grocery club, saying that critics did not understand the company's culture.
Former Costco Internal Division Senior Vice President Roger Campbell told Fox News
The 82 -year -old Campbell retired from the company in 2015. His career began Costco in 1986. He served as a training student in the store manager and was promoted in the executive team. He spent 29 years in Costco and had a strong defense for this because grocery chain stores faced attacks on attacks because it refused to abandon its DEI initiative.
The former executive claims that even before the word "DEI" exists, Costco has always evaluated the principles of diversity, fairness and tolerance. Costco's executives regard the company's culture as a key factor in success, and in his ear, DEI is synonymous with the company's business method.
Although Campbell emphasized that he did not represent the company or any current executive or a board member endorsement, he felt that Costco firmly defended his DEI policy because the board of directors regarded him as an attack on the business itself.
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Campbell said: "Our whole idea is to take care of employees. Our whole idea is a very simple thing-if you hire a good person, pay a good salary and give them good benefits, then good things may happen."
Costco's board of directors recently rejected a shareholder's suggestion to analyze the risk of its DEI policy. In response, the chief prosecutor of 19 states issued a letter to Costco CEO Ron Vachris, asking the company to give up its DEI plan to meet President Trump's recent administrative order. The federal government is prohibited from prohibiting DEI.
Trump's administrative order is why many companies announced the reason for the strong public opposition to terminate the DEI initiative. Facebook, McDonald's, Boeing, Harley-Davidson, and everyone else are planning to plan or work directly.
However, unlike other companies, Costco has the principles of diversity, fairness and inclusiveness. This principle incorporates it into DNA. Campbell claims that although it is no longer political fashion, Campbell claims that the principles claim do not need to give up these. plan.
Campbell claimed: "This is the rule of a certain point in time. Some people say 'Okay, everyone must enter DEI', you see that all these companies have entered it, and then get rid of it because they have never started. "" Call it what you want to call, but we have some effective things. "
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Campbell said that in recruitment, Costco always tried to ensure that the employees of their warehouses and stores reflected their communities where their population statistics were. He said that Costco effortlessly achieved this goal and never consciously changed its recruitment approach to meet certain quotas.
"Diversity is a word used, but this is never my God. We need to get a program. We need to train diversity. '"
Campbell claims that Costco's promotion is based on advantages, not race or gender, and added that he has never heard that someone complains that they have lost opportunities because they are white. However, he acknowledged that when he decided to be promoted, if both candidates were "also qualified", he would consider the game.
"If I absolutely look at this diverse person, it is an opportunity, not to stop them, '' Campbell acknowledged.
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When Campbell left the company, Costco introduced its formal DEI plan, but in fact, he did not observe and he had never heard of any changes in the company's core value.
He said, "(Board) associate DEI with the history of our company." "If it is in our books or our plan, it is just because it exists. We never call it DEI, and we have always regarded it to see it. "For our culture" "
Costco faces the potential strike of union employees in some stores, and has always had the image of parenting. According to Harvard business reviews, the turnover rate of grocery chain stores is 8 %, and it is reported that its average hourly tax rate is $ 31.
Hamilton E. James, chairman of the board of directors of grocery clubs, donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Democratic PAC in the last election cycle and followed several other members of the board of directors.
Campbell believes that he is a conservative, and he rejected the idea of the board of directors to force his industry.
Although Campbell insisted that Costco's commitment to diversity was long, it did not seem to be transformed into the company's highest ranking. According to the Wall Street Journal, 72 % of their supreme managers are men and 81 % of white people.
Campbell acknowledged: "We need more diversity."
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