India’s Contribution to Management portrays a
holistic, spiritually-based contribution that India can make to the
field of management. It consists of three parts.
The first part examines past and contemporary world movements,
primarily historical and geographical, to conclude that world
attention is about to focus on India. Further, developments within
India herself are examined, to conclude that India too, in a manner of
speaking, has been withholding knowledge, until that point when the
world will be ready to receive her true light.
Simultaneously, there have been a number of developments along the
individual, organizational, and economic fronts that demand a more
holistic, spiritually-based approach to management. This is the
material of the second part of the book. Several managerial
limitations to the running of companies are examined. The emergence
of the Digital Economy and the complexities inherent in it, with its
simultaneous need for a far more sophisticated individual and
organizational perspective and attitude are examined. Trends in
management, with the gradual refocusing from external to internal
concerns are examined. Each of these separate examinations leads to
one conclusion – the need for a more enlightened, holistic,
spiritually-based framework for management.
India’s Contribution to Management will extrapolate from these
independent observations to conclude that India indeed will provide
the framework required for fulfillment of numerous managerial problems
the world is facing. This framework is based on the deepest knowledge
of reality that India has been privileged to uncover time and time
again through the unfolding of history.
One omnipresent Being & Consciousness informs and sustains reality.
All are expressions of this underlying reality and if the power, love,
knowledge, joy, and harmony of that underlying reality are not felt,
or is not apparent in materialistic life, this is because we do not
take the trouble to enter into contact with it. In fact, all
movements, whether individual, managerial, scientific, or social, will
find their fulfillment and more rapid flowering if they orbit around
this deeper reality, and turn to it to consciously inform and sustain
their own development and seeking.
Fulfillment in all fields will be arrived at on this foundation.
India possesses the knowledge of approaching, experiencing,
identifying with, and being mobilized by this reality.
Part Three examines what an organization may become if the light of a
spiritually-based management framework is indeed followed. A method
for predicting which of the many arising management techniques will
endure, based on their inherent alignment with the spiritually-based
framework, is suggested. Further, contemporary companies are examined
for their adoption of futuristic, widening practices, which align them
with the spiritually-based framework. Profit is redefined, and a new
management paradigm, based on the deeper reality is examined.
Finally, a practical set of questions is presented which help an
organization assess to what degree it may already be aligning with the
deepest reality as reflected by the new management paradigm.