Business View Magazine | July 2022

64 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 7 Jamaluddin adds, “We have a very flat organization. My father has always said that he wants to have an open door policy. That he doesn’t want a lot of hierarchy. So, I think that really lends itself to the kind of family values that any employee knows they can walk into the CEO’s office and talk about something that’s bothering them. That is very different from the international oil and gas companies based in the Houston area. The majority of our employees understand that. Being a small business, they don’t have to go through the layers of procedures and HR to talk to somebody. I think that really helps people feel like they are understood and heard and that they have an impact.” Education is vital to innovation at Epcon. In that regard, the company offers tuition assistance for their employees and they also have an internal training program for safety training, forklift training, and OSHA training. They pay for online