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People First Isn’t a Slogan: What Compt, Buurtzorg & Costco Get Right

People First Isn’t a Slogan: What Compt, Buurtzorg & Costco Get Right

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Almost every company says its people matter. But saying you're "people first" and designing an organization around people are two very different things.In this episode, Kristine and Monica look at three organizations that challenge conventional assumptions about how work should operate and demonstrate different ways organizations can put people-first principles into practice.Compt: Choice and AgencyTraditional employee benefits often start with an assumption: the organization knows what employees need.Compt takes a different approach. Its Lifestyle Spending Accounts allow employers to establish budgets and eligible categories while giving employees greater freedom to choose benefits that fit their own lives—from wellness and caregiving to professional development and home-office expenses.The cultural lesson isn't simply about benefits. It's about agency. When employees have different lives, needs, families, cultures, and circumstances, treating everyone "equally" doesn't necessarily mean giving everyone exactly the same thing.Buurtzorg: Trusting the People Closest to the WorkBuurtzorg (Dutch for "neighborhood care") offers a radically different model of home healthcare.Instead of building layers of management and highly prescribed processes, Buurtzorg organizes nurses into small, self-managing neighborhood teams. The professionals closest to patients have significant authority to organize their work, coordinate care, and make decisions.The result is a powerful lesson about trust: You can't tell employees you trust them while designing systems that require approval for every meaningful decision.Trust becomes real when it is reflected in decision rights, processes, and the structure of the work itself.What would happen if more organizations allowed skilled professionals to spend their time doing the work they were actually trained to do?Costco: Investing in People for the Long TermCostco offers a more familiar but equally important example.Its Code of Ethics explicitly prioritizes obeying the law, taking care of members, taking care of employees, and respecting suppliers before rewarding shareholders. The premise is important: shareholder returns are an outcome of taking care of the other stakeholders, rather than the only objective.Costco reinforces that philosophy through competitive pay, benefits for eligible part-time employees, employee development, and a long-term approach to its workforce.That investment matters because turnover isn't just an HR metric. When experienced employees leave, organizations lose institutional knowledge, customer insight, productivity, and the investment required to recruit and train replacements.What These Three Companies Have in CommonCompt, Buurtzorg, and Costco operate in very different industries, countries, and organizational contexts. But they share something important:Their commitments to people are connected to their operating decisions.They challenge assumptions that employers always know what employees need, that managers should make the important decisions, or that investing more in employees necessarily comes at the expense of financial performance.Instead, they build their beliefs into the way work actually happens. Culture isn't something separate from the business. It's embedded in who has authority, where money is spent, how employees are treated, and how work gets done.Questions to consider:• How much agency do employees have over decisions that affect their work?• Are you designing programs around what employees actually need or what leadership assumes they need?• Where could the people closest to your customers, patients, or work make better decisions if you gave them greater authority?• If someone examined your organization's systems, budgets, and decision-making authority without seeing your values statement, what would they conclude that you value?Companies mentioned in this episode:Compt Buurtzorg Costco Thanks for Listening!We’d love to hear from you.Kristine Gentry, PhDkgentry@culturegrove.com🌐 www.culturegrove.com🔗 LinkedIn: Kristine McKenzie GentryMonica M. Smithtradewindscareerconsulting@gmail.com🌐 www.tradewindscareerconsulting.com🔗 LinkedIn: Monica Mary SmithIf you enjoyed the show, please: subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who cares about building better teams. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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