INDIAN ETHOS & VALUES

Prof. Thomas V George DCSMAT

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TEXTS FOR REFERENCE

  

William Shah, Business Ethics Bajaj & Agarwwal, Business Ethics C V Bakshi & Ajit Prasad, Corporate Social Responsibility R Nandagopal & Ajith Prasad, Indian Ethos & Values in Management John Huntsman, Winners Never Cheat

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INDIAN MODEL OF MANAGEMENT & WORK ETHOS NECESSITY TO BE AWARE OF INDIAN ETHOS IN MANAGEMENT SOCIO POLITICAL EVIRONMENT THAT INFLUENCED INDIAN WORK ETHOS INDIAN HERITAGE IN PRODUCTION & CONSUMPTION

INDIAN ETHOS

RELEVANCE OF INDIAN ETHOS SPIRITUALITY AT WORK

BHARAT S GREAT GIFT TO MODERN WORLD, MAHATMA GANDHI AND THE INCREDIBLE TRADITION OF SPIRITUALITY FROM WHICH HE CAME HAD BEEN MY INSPIRATION ALWAYS. MICHAEL NAGLER, Prof. OF CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY ETHOS GREEK WORD MEANS CHARACTER
CONTD

QUALITIES ASSOCIATED WITH A PURE BEING : SHRIMAD BHAGAVATHAM

               

TRUTHFULNESS PURITY RADIANCE COMPASSION FORGIVENESS INGENUITY SELF SATISFACTION CONDEMNMENT SIMPLICITY STEADY MIND CONTROL OF SENSE ORGANS INDEPENDENCE SKILL LOVE HUMILITY PATIENCE

               

AUSTERITY EQUALITY ENDURANCE TOLERANCE EQUANIMITY FAITHFULNESS EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE DETACHMENT LEADERSHIP COURAGE VIGOUR REMEMBRANCE FIDELITY FAME KIND HEARTEDNESS INTEGRITY

DHARMA

MOKSHA

PURUSH ARTHA

ARTHA

KAMA

INDIAN WORK ETHOS FOCUSES ON BUILDING INTERIORITY : SATHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV



INTERIORITY INTERVENOR

INTERIOR CONDITION OF

SPIRITUAL PURPOSE OF WORK IS TO SERVE OTHERS, MAKING A CONTRIBUTION TO THEM AND TO THE SOCIETY THAT SUPPORTS US : WILLIAM MILLER C, CO FOUDER GLOBAL DHARMA CENTRE

FUNDAMENTAL PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF WORK CHITTHASHUDHI



CHITTHASHUDHI PURITY OF MIND WHERE MIND DEVOID OF EGO, GREED, ANGER ETC.

RESEARCHERS FOUND EVIDENCE OF CULTURAL VALUES LIKE

     

YOGIC SPIRITUALITY NON ATTACHMENT INTER CONNECTEDNESS WITH OTHERS NON VIOLENCE TOLERANCE SENSE OF DUTY

IN INDIAN MANAGERS

EPICS (RAMAYANA & MAHABHARATA) LAID THE FOUNDATION STONES OF THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF INDIA WHICH INFLUENCED GENERATION OF INDIAN MANAGERS. INDIAN ETHOS TAKES INTO ACCOUNT A WHOLE MAN RATHER THAN TAKING MAN IN PARTIAL FRACTIONS. EKAM SAT VIPRA BAHUDA VADANTI = TRUTH IS ONE, TOLD VARIUOSLY BY THE WISE.

THE SEEKING TO UNRAVEL THE I MAY BE TERMED AS SPIRITUALITY : AMBER CHAND, FOUNDER OF WOMEN S PEACE COLLECTION. SPIRITUALITY IS OF UNIFYING NATURE.


FOCUS ON RITES AND RITUALS CAUSES DISHARMONY AND RELIGIUOS RIFT

SPIRITUALITY IS THE SINGLE ESSENCE OF ALL RELIGIONS SPIRITUALITY IS INCLUSIVE AND NOT EXCLUSIVE

SPIRITUALITY ALLOWS PEOPLE TO WORK TOGETHER IN HARMONY

MODEL OF MANAGEMENT IN THE INDIAN SOCIO POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT

NURTURING VALUES LIKE TRUTH, RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE, LOVE AND NON VIOLENCE IS TRUE INDIAN CULTURE  MATRU DEVO BHAVA PITRU DEVO BHAVA ACHARYA DEVO BHAVA ATHITHI DEVO BHAVA : TAITTRIYA UPANISHAD


INDIAN SOCIETY REVERES TEACHERS



TEACHER
IS THE ARCHITECT OF HAPPY HOMES, PROSPEROUS COMMUNITIES & PEACEFUL NATIONS.  TEACHER EQUIPS HIMSELF AND TRANSFERS SKILL, VISION AND INSPIRATION TO STUDENTS THEREBY MOULDING THEM INTO ROLE MODELS OF EFECTIVE AND VALUE BASED LEADERSHIP.


EVERY ACTION IN INDIAN SOCIETY IS CONSIDERED SPIRITUAL, INCLULDING POLITICS.

SWARAJ (SELF RULE) MOVEMENT BY GANDHIJI IS VITALLY CONNECTED WITH THE CAPACITY FOR DISPASSIONATE SELF ASSESSMENT, CEASELESS SELF PURIFICATION AND GROWING SELF RELIANCE. TWO STRONG PILLERS OF BHARAT S SANATAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY TYAGA AND SEVA (RENUNCIATION & SERVICE). THESE WERE PRACTICED BY GREAT KINGS LIKE HARSHAVARDHAN (590 AD 657AD) SARVA BHOOTHA SAMAN HOW LEADER SHOULD THINK ABOUT OTHERS: VEDAVYASAN

NON ATTACHMENT AND HUMILITY ARE THE QUALITIES OF INDIAN LEADERS AS PASSED ON FROM GENERATION. INDIA IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF ARTHASHASTHRA (KAUTILLYA) AND THE BOOK SPEAKS OF
     

CONQUERING THE TEMPTATIONS OF THE SENSES CONTINOUSLY IMPROVING SELF DISCIPLINE AND LEARNING BEING AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS IN PRACTICING DHARMA CULTIVATING INTELLECT BY ASSOCIATION WITH ELDERS PROMOTING WELFARE AND SECURITY OF PEOPLE ENRICHING OTHERS LIVES BY DOING GOOD TO THEM

INDIAN WORK ETHICS & PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT

FACTORS THAT INFLUENCED INDIAN WORK ETHSIC

       

PAROPAKAARTHAM IDAM SAREERAM ATMANO MOKSHARTHAM JAGAT HITAYACHA YAGNAYACHARATAH KARMA PARASPARAM BHAVAYANTAH SREYAH PARAM AVAPSYATHA YOGAH KARMASU KAUSHALAM SATYAM NAASTI PARO DHARMAH SVASVA-DHARME NIDHANAM SREYAH NA HI KASCHIT KSANAM API JATU TISTHATY AKARMA KRT

PAROPAKAARTHAM IDAM SAREERAM

PAROPAKAARAAYA PHALANTHI VRIKSHAHA PAROPAKAARAAYA VAHANTI NADYAHA PAROPAKAARAAYA DUHANTHI GAAVAHA PAROPAKAARTHAM IDAM SAREERAM ALL THE ELEMENTS OF NATURE PERFORM THEIR ACTIVITIES WITHOUT ANY CALCULATION OR EXPECTATION OF REWARD OR APPRECIATION

 

WORK SHOULD BE SELFLESS OCD CONCEPT ORGANIZATION CITIZENSHIP DUTY BEHAVIUOR



AN INDIVIDUAL MUST WORK FOR INTRINSIC SATISFACTION BY DEONTIC MOTIVATION TRANSCENDING JOB RESPONSIBILITY
INTRINSIC = INTERNAL  DEONTIC MOTIVATION = EXCELLENCE AT WORK BEING THE MOTIVATION TO WORK BETTER


ORGANISATIONS WITH SUCH PEOPLE EXCEL IN PERFORMANCE

ATMANO MOKSHARTHAM JAGAT HITAYACHA

 

RIGVEDA MEANS FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE SELF AND GOOD OF THE WORLD OUR ACTIONS SHOULD BE GUIDED BY THEIR IMPACT ON THE WORLD BALANCE BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY HAS TO BE MAINTAINED

YAGNAYACHARATAH KARMA
 BHAGAVATH

GITA, CHAPTER 4

 WORK

HAS TO BE DONE IN THE SPIRIT OF YAGNA (SACRIFICE)

PARASPARAM BHAVAYANTAH SREYAH PARAM AVAPSYATHA

 

BHAGAVATH GITA MAY WE ASSIST AND SATISFY ONE ANOTHER TO ATTAIN THE HIGHEST GOOD AND WELFARE OF ALL REFERS TO INDIAN ETHOS OF VIEWING THE WORLD AS ONE FAMILY VASUDAIVA KUTUMBAKAM

YOGAH KARMASU KAUSHALAM



BHAGAVATH GITA DEXTERITY AND EXCELLENCE IN ACTION ARE YOGAH (UNITY WITH THE SUPREME POWER)

SATYAM NAASTI PARO DHARMAH



NO DHARMA IS HIGHER THAN THE TRUTH GOD DOES NOT GO BY ONE S EXTERNAL ACTION, BUT BY HIS HEART, IE, GOD IS BHAAVAPRIYA. HUMANS ARE BHAAHYAPRIYA (EXTERNAL CRAVINGS)

YES, WE WOULD HAVE BEEN TWICE AS BIG AS WE ARE TODAY IF WE HAD DONE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT SOME OTHER GROUPS HAVE DONE IN THE 1960s AND 70s. BUT WE DIDN T AND WE WOULD NOT HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY. JRD TATA

SVASVA-DHARME NIDHANAM SREYAH

 

NO DUTY IS UGLY OR IMPURE. THERE IS AN EXPECTANCY REALITY GAP WHICH CAN BE OVERCOME BY A TRANSFORMATIONAL ROLE OF MAKING MUNDANE DUTIES INTO EXCITING ONES

NA HI KASCHIT KSANAM API JATU TISTHATY AKARMA KRT

DUE TO THE INFLUENCE OF LATENT QUALITIES , WE CANNOT REMAIN WITHOUT DOING WORK.

INDIAN HERITAGE IN PRODUCTION & CONSUMPTION

INDIAN HERITAGE EMPHAZISES



THE ESSENCE OF CIVILIZATION LIES NOT IN MULTIPLICATION OF WANTS BUT IN THE PURIFICATION OF HUMAN CHARACTER SIMPLE LIVING & HIGH THINKING DEFINED AS TRANSFORMATION OF INPUTS TO OUTPUTS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF INPUT
    

PRODUCTION


MEN MONEY MACHINES MATERIAL MANAGEMENT

CONSUMPTION


DEFINED AS USING FINISHED GOODS AND SERVICES TO ACHIEVE GOALS PRODUCTION IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO CONSUMPTION ECONOMISTS SAY THAT PRODUCTION FROM LOCAL RESOURCES FOR LOCAL NEEDS IS THE MOST RATIONAL WAY OF ECONOMIC LIFE PRODUCTION OF GOODS AND SERVICES FULFILL ONE S NEEDS, WANTS AND DESIRES. PRODUCTION OF USEFUL GOODS AND SERVICES SHOULD BE DONE ETHICALLY USING NATURAL RESOURCES

INDIAN HERITAGE IN PRODUCTION



INDIAN HERITAGE IN CONSUMPTION



CONSUMPTION INCREASED NUMBER OF PRODUCTION WAYS A MEASURE OF STANDARD LIVING IS JUDGED BY THE AMOUNT OF ANNUAL CONSUMPTION, SAYS ECONOMISTS CONSUMPTION IS MAINLY A MEANS TO WELFARE OF HUMAN BEING THE AIM SHOULD BE TO OBTAIN THE MAXIMUM WELL BEING WITH MINIMUM CONSUMPTION

LESSONS DRAWN FROM INDIAN HERITAGE FOR PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION & OTHER ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES


THE PRESENT TREND IS TO MOVE TOWARDS RELIABLE, EFFICIENT AND SAFE METHODS OF PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION PRODUCTION PROCESSES FOCUSES ON SOCIAL BENEFITS CONTD

IMPACT OF SPIRITUAL CONSIDERATION



IN THE PAST, THERE WAS CO-ORDINATION COBETWEEN ARTHA AND KAMA. WEALTH CREATION WAS IMPORTANT IN THE PAST, BUT THAT WAS NOT THE SOLE FOCUS TAUGHT THE PRESENT GENERATION MORE OF GIVING AND LESS OF GRABBING .

ROLE OF GREAT ECONOMISTS



 

INCREASE IN PER CAPITA INCOME USE OF RESOURCES

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