Fundamental Management Objectives

Facilities Management Fundamental Management Objectives are guidelines employees are encouraged to use in their relationships with co-workers and the campus community.

  • Be fair but firm
  • Foster a trusting relationship
  • Encourage
  • Speak frankly and directly
  • Be consistent
  • Cooperate
  • Be confident and self assured
  • Act calmly under stress
  • Employees are our most valuable resource
  • Recognize individual employee strengths and weaknesses
  • Capitalize on strengths
  • Support/improve upon weaknesses
  • Treat others as you expect to be treated
  • Expect and respond constructively to mistakes
  • Never shoot the messenger
  • Explain more than defend
  • Ask a lot of questions and elicit alternatives in order to make informed decisions
  • Expect and respond constructively to change
  • Question and evaluate processes, even those that appear to be working
  • There is always room for improvement
  • Recognize, thank and reward people