The Five Tenets

In management there are five tenets that Kepner-Tregoe believes would assist in people management. The first of these tenets is to focus on performance instead of personality. That is because when you focus on an individual’s personality, even if you not trying to, it feels like they are being attack. Where as when you focus on their performance you can also introduce ways for them to improve. This second tenet was a little confusing to me and it is to provide a base line against which to measure later results. To me this one sounded like it means to tell someone, your at this level when you should be here lets see if we can get you somewhere in between. Next is examining the environment in which the behavior occurs. The reason you would want to do this is because there may be some sort of evidence as to why your employee acts the way they do. Another reason is maybe there are too many objects around them that distract them in some way that could be removed. The fourth step you would implement the corrective actions need to improve work performance and the behavior of employees. Then after that you want to see if there were any improvements that have resulted from the changes in the fifth tenet. I would have to agree that if a lot more managers at business would implement these five tenets there business would be more successful. The reason I say that is because you have good morale then your employees will work harder, and the harder they work the more business