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Personnel Management 
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Swami Dayananda Saraswati
P
ERSONNEL
M
ANAGEMENT
 
 
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PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
Everyone is a manager. A man may not have a big factories and unionsto manage, but he, as a house holder, may have a few children and somerelatives and friends to manage. Wife has to manage her husband andhusband has to manage his wife. Parents have to manage their childrenand children have to manage their parents to get things done. You findthat management is involved everywhere, whether one occupies amanagerial position or not. Thus everyone is a manager.
Set an Example
A manager is a leader and a leader must set an example. I find that thefollowing verse of the Bhagavad Gita is very relevant to this:
Yadyadàrati sresthaùñattadevetaro janaþ Sa yatpramàõam kurute lokastadanuvartate 
Whatever a leader does, another person does that very thing. Whateverhe upholds as authority, an ordinary person follows that.(Bhagavad Gita III 21)A
÷reùñha 
is a person who is looked up to by others: he or she issupposed to know, supposed to lead. In a family, the eldest personbecomes the
÷reùñha 
and all others look upon him or her. In factories,mills and commercial organizations, you have a person at the top, achairperson ~ who can be a man or a woman ~ who is also a
÷reùñha 
 because the position gives that status to the person in the setup.Then again, we find a hierarchy, a line of 
÷reùñhas 
. There may be agroup of people reporting to the chairperson and every person in thatgroup is a
÷reùñha 
for a few others working under him or her, and so on.Thus every person becomes
÷reùñha 
for some people and so it is clear
 
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that there is not just one person who is
÷reùñha 
. Everyone is a
÷reùñha 
fora few. Even if man is a nobody, an unemployed, he is still a
÷reùñha 
fora few family members who have not yet given up their looking up tohim.This
÷reùñha,
the one who is a leader, the one others look up to ~whatever he does, whatever life style he follows ~ is followed by otherswho look up to him. If a man works for eighteen hours a day, withoutany expectation of appreciation or applause, if he works day in and dayout in this manner, how can people who look up to him remain idle? If you are a
÷reùñha 
in a given setup and keep doing whatever is to be doneat a given time in a given situation, you find people who look up to youalso doing whatever is to be done by them.Again, whatever this
÷reùñha puruùa 
accepts as
 pramàõa 
, whatever heupholds as authority, whatever he considers valuable, people around himwill also follow that value.Thus, Lord Kçùõa, in effect says to Arjuna, "If you run away from thisbattle-field, I tell you, all others will also follow you. If you fail to dowhat is to be done, others will also do exactly that, because you a
÷reùñha  puruùa 
, whether you like it or not".If you are occupying a managerial position, you cannot afford to belackadaisical, you cannot be loose in your value structure, becauseothers will follow whatever you set as an example. If the top man in anorganization takes lakhs of rupees in bribe, the office peon will at leastask for five rupees to move papers from one desk to another !So, this is a very simple element in managing things ~ set an example.
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