Thought Tweet #549 You can help your employees maintain and grow a positive mental attitude. Here's how...

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

For example, here's an excerpt from Boyé Lafayette De Menthe's ‘The Japanese Samurai Code’, (2004)

Talking about how Japanese companies go about building positive mental attitude...

“These companies follow a set of four principles in creating the mental attitude they want their employees to have.

These four principles are: (a) to have a basic business philosophy that provides a clear reason for the existence of the enterprise, along with management practices to fulfill this philosophy; (2) the precepts of the company philosophy must be ingrained in the minds of the employees to the point that they will instinctively behave according to the precepts; (3) that employees must be trained to work without constraint, have a strong sense of responsibility and be creative in their approach to everything they do; and (4) that all employees be trained to develop a sense of social responsibility.”