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Ethics and Indian mangement


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Indian Intellectual Traditions

Arthasastra Tradition

Vedantic/Psycophilosophical tradition

Liberation from Oppression

Syadvada

Gandhian Tradition

Communism

Confluencism

Cultural Nationalism

OSHO Tradition


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Arthsastra

Artha is important goal of human existence

Throws light on how to develop good

subordinates

Provides ideas that appeal to modern day

managers and administrators

Contributed by Kautilya


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15 GREAT THOUGHTS BY CHANAKYA

1) "Learn from the mistakes of others... you can't live long enough to make them all

yourselves!!"

2)"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are

screwed first."

3)"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."

4)"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without

self-interests. This is a bitter truth."

5)" Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing

it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and

find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."

6)"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."

7)"The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman."


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8)"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and

don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."

9)"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But

the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."

10)"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is

your temple."

11) "A man is great by deeds, not by birth."


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12) "Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such

friendships will never give you any happiness."

13) "Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scoldthem. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children

are your best friends."

14) "Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person."

15) "Education is the Best Friend. An Educated Person is Respected Everywhere.

Education beats the Beauty and the Youth."

Success is no accident; it results from well thought actions aligned with focused

vision

Fearlessness, perseverance and patience are the key attributes of any leader. This

helpsin setting lofty goals and fuels the determination to achieve them by executing

against the well-laid-out plan.Another great quality exhibited by the leader is in

spotting talents and grooming them to take bigger challenges


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Vedantic/Psycophilosophical tradition

Delas with divinity oreinted view of human

nature

This tradition emphasises the value based

approach to management and administration.

Contributors to this tradition are Ramakrishna

paramhansa and Swami vivekananda, Daya

nand saraswati etc


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Liberation from Oppression

Social reformers have drawn ideas from this

tradition

Concern for downtrodden is the essence

Survival of the weakest and of all life forms.


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Syadvada/Multiple perspectives

A theory of the relativity of knowledge

Problems should be viewed from multuiple

perspectives

Suggests a holistic approach to reality through

relativist view of things


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Communism

Considers common man as the pillar of the

social drive

Implies change sin government policies as well

as functioning of the government under the

directorship of masses.

Futuristic view implies the creation of socuiety

in which individuals are at peace with

themselves.


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Confluencism

Implies creation of new ideas as a result of

interaction with different ideas

Emphasises the ability to assilimilate ideas and

transform them creatively

A two way process of the flow of ideas ,

rejecting forced dominance


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Cultural Nationalism

Social change brought through the process of

social regeneration

Argues for restoring self pride and self dignity

of the individual society

Positive ideas to be borrowed , negative

influences must be avoided for social

regeneration


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OSHO tradition

Ideas of Rajneesh, who rejected most of the

current ideas of the world views about man,

state and society

An overarching tradition

Futuristic vision and hope for transformation

of the society in his new man who is an

enlightened being

Its is very vast and controversial


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The 3 Gunas

The three primary gunas are generally

accepted to be associated with creation

(sattva), preservation (rajas), and destruction

(tamas).

The entire creation and its process of

evolution is carried out by these three major

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All creation is made up by a balance

composed of all three forces. For creation to

progress, each new stage "needs a force to

maintain it and another force to develop itinto a new stage. The force that develops the

process in a new stage is rajo guna, while

tamo guna is that which checks or retards theprocess in order to maintain the state already

produced, so that it may form the basis for the

next stage".


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Sattva(originally "being, existence, entity")

has been translated to mean balance, order,

or purity.

Rajas(originally "atmosphere, air, firmament")

is also translated to mean change, movement

or dynamism. (Rajas is etymologically

unrelated to the word raja.)


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Tamas(originally "darkness", "obscurity") has

been translated to mean "too inactive" or

"inertia", negative, lethargic, dull, or

slow. Usually it is associated with darkness,delusion, or ignorance. A tamas quality also

can refer to anything destructive or entropic.


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In his Translation and Commentary on

the Bhagvad gita, Maharishi Mahesh

yogi explains "The nature of tamo guna is to

check or retard, though it should not bethought that if the movement is upward tamo

guna is absent".


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Case Study :The Three Gunas

"A person wandering in the forest meets a Sage. Attracted by the good nature ofthe Sage, this person seeks the Sages association. The Sage through his dhrishti

(clairvoyance) finds out that this person has committed many sins like having lust

and anger, money mindedness, disrespect to Sages etc... . But out of compassion

the saint offers him a place to stay in his ashram. But the person denies the offer

and says that he could not imagine staying with the Sage full-time, rather he

wanted to meet the Sage once in a while according to his own convenience. TheSage gently smiled and agreed. Over a period of time this person displays his

attitude of laziness, anger and disrespect to the Sage. He would go to the extent

of questioning the Sage whenever the Sage advised him. But out of compassion to

fellow human beings the Sage always continued to show him the path of

dharma".

1. What is the guna of the Sage? Why?

2. What is the guna of the person? Why?

3. What did you learn from this story?

4. What should the person do to transcend his guna?


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Gandhian Principle of Trusteeship:

Trusteeship principle advocated by Gandhiji provides a means of

transforming the present capitalist order of society into an

egalitarian one. It is in many ways different from the concept from

socialism as Gandhiji did not believe in using force either by the

individual or by the state. Trusteeship, as a concept is not absolute

but relative in time and space to the needs of the society.

Trusteeship Management - Gandhian

Philosophy of Wealth Management


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According to the trusteeship philosophy, though

wealth belongs to the owners and proprietors of

business, morally it belongs to the society and to the

community.

Gandhijis philosophy implied that management wasthe trustees of , not only the wealth of the

organization and of the society and consequently of

the nation, but also of the material and moral

welfare of the labour class working in their

organizations.


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Seven Sins

Politics without principles

Education without Character

Commerce without Morality

Pleasure without conscience

Wealth without work

Science without Humanity

Workship without Sacrifice

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