Title:
CREATING AN EMPLOYEE-CENTRIC CULTURE IN ORGANIZATIONS

Authors:
Samuel Bonsu, PhD , USA

Abstract:
The high employee turnover rate, job related stress, and the need for innovation and improved performance to gain competitive advantage are reasons to create an employee-centric culture in organizations. Bureau of labor statistics revealed that in January 2019, there were 5.6 million employee turnover in the United States. Of the total number of turnovers, 3.5 million employees quit, and 1.7 million were either laid off or fired, in the month of January alone. Organizational leaders have the responsibility to reduce turnover and optimize employee potential. Scholarly articles focus on employee performance, innovation, strategic management, and leadership, however there is limited mention of the creation of an employee-centric culture that favors followership, and instills loyalty and commitment in employees, to reduce turnover. This article seeks to provide a general framework to guide corporate leaders to create an employee-centric culture. The author reviewed scholarly literature and relied on experiential knowledge to provide theoretical and empirical guidelines for the creation of an employee-centric culture.Factors such as trust, information sharing, autonomy, community relations, play time, and family-like atmosphere are important towards reducing turnover rates and improving employee creativity and innovation acumen