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Management Practices in Indian Vedas

The document discusses management practices in ancient Indian texts like the Vedas, Bhagavad Gita, Vidur Niti, and Chanakya Niti. It outlines qualities of effective leaders such as being virtuous, intelligent, decisive, ethical, and able to identify and place the right people in roles. Principles like devotion to vision, right knowledge, perseverance, and ethical behavior are discussed as keys to success. Adaptation, consciousness of strengths and weaknesses, and learning from experience are also highlighted.

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Management Practices in Indian Vedas

The document discusses management practices in ancient Indian texts like the Vedas, Bhagavad Gita, Vidur Niti, and Chanakya Niti. It outlines qualities of effective leaders such as being virtuous, intelligent, decisive, ethical, and able to identify and place the right people in roles. Principles like devotion to vision, right knowledge, perseverance, and ethical behavior are discussed as keys to success. Adaptation, consciousness of strengths and weaknesses, and learning from experience are also highlighted.

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Management

Practices in Indian
Vedas
DR. ANSHUMAN BHATTACHARYA
Management in Yajur-Veda
Qualities of an Administrator Mentioned in Shukla Yajur
Veda :
1. August Personality (Ch7/Sl35)
2. Ethical,
3. Visionary, and
4. Performer of good deed
5. Vigorous in decisions, expressions and actions (Ch6/Sl35)
6. Possessor of prowess (Ch23/Sl20)
Psychological characteristics of a leader :
1. Virtuous (Ch8/Sl50)
2. Propitious (Ch15/Sl1)
Vidur Niti
 According to Vidur, a leader can control all stakeholders
by determining appropriate course of action using ones
wit (Vidur Niti. ch1, sl 49)
 There are three kinds of personnel – supreme, average
and inferior. All of these has their respective roles in the
administration, so they should be placed accordingly
(ibid. ch1, sl 68)

 The leader should have the quality to identify correct


persons to form his team. He should avoid less intelligent
colleagues, too lazy as well as too hasty persons, and
flattering ones while discussing any strategy (ibid. ch1, sl 74)
 Qualities of a successful leader include alertness, vigour, and
control on anger. He should not be lethargic or procrastinator (ibid.
ch1, sl 83)

 He should possess the virtues of truthfulness, responsibility, positive


approach in all circumstances, forgiveness and patience in every
business of life (Ibid. ch1, sl 86)
 He should have tamed six enemies of human being, i.e. lust, anger,
greed, delusion, arrogance and envy (Ibid. ch1, sl 88)
 Vidur further states that secrecy of strategy is the key to success
(Ibid. ch1, sl 124)
 A leader can earn respect in the society by his
intellect, aristocracy, self-control, knowledge,
vigour and by laconic expressions (Ibid. ch1, sl104)
 He can achieve a distinct position in the
community by benevolence, truthfulness,
tenderness and affection for all (Ibid.ch1, sl 125)
Bhagvad Gita

 According to Gita, the absolute (goal) can be attained by any of


the four paths – Bhakti Yaga (the devotion), Karma Yoga (the
action or deed), Jnana Yoga (the cognition) or Raja Yoga (the
meditation and self-control).
 The principles of modern management also adopt the same
means to achieve success in the business.
 Business can be led to the ultimate success only by devotion of
employees individually and collectively to the vision of the
organisation.
 Self-controlled and focused effort
 self-motivated team strictly focused to the common goal of the
organisation
 Not to get concerned too much about outcome of the effort - we have the
right to offer our action, but not to be concerned for the particular
outcome (success or failure) of it
 The organisation must perform the best of its effort to satisfy the customers,
but can never anticipate sure success against their effort. All business
schools accept that no business model guarantees success. Even the best
business model of one circumstance can fail in the other one.
Significant Managerial Lessons
Contained in Bhagvad Gita
 Appropriate decision making, i.e. placing of correct
person at correct position in the organisation, adoption
of correct business model and layout.
 Right knowledge, i.e. intelligence of market sentiments
and personnel sentiments.
Significant Managerial Lessons
Contained in Bhagvad Gita
 Symbiosis,
i.e. selfless and community effort can only
ensure progress and prosperity in the society.
 Renunciation of ego and bliss of infinity help
acceptance of presence and potential of the
competitors in the market. Thus, the perceiver can
envision distant future. Further, no business is eternal,
therefore a leader should always be aware of the
reality that adaptation in the system is indispensable.
Significant Managerial Lessons
Contained in Bhagvad Gita
 Consciousness - it connotes regular evaluation of SWOT.
 Live what one learn, i.e. a leader should always learn lessons from
past experience.
 Perseverance. One should never quit but always strive for
betterment.
 Value the blessings - resources and opportunities available to the
business must be valued as they are the key to future success.
 See the divine everywhere. There is a niche in each incident
whether apparently negative it may seem. A successful leader
identifies and capitalise on it.
Chanakya Niti
 happiness is rooted in ethics, i.e. one can be happy in life only if
he follows ethics in his thought and deed.
 resources are rooted in ethics that means ethical behaviour
cannot be expected from anyone who does not possess
resources.
 how can resources be generated? Enterprise (kingdom) is the
root to create resources and enterprise is rooted in conquering
organs.
 organs can be conquered by humility that is earned by serving
learned (experienced) people as they are the source of worldly
knowledge.
Chanakya Niti
 how can resources be generated? Enterprise (kingdom) is the
root to create resources and enterprise is rooted in conquering
organs.
 organs can be conquered by humility that is earned by serving
learned (experienced) people as they are the source of worldly
knowledge.
 Therefore, one should strive for acquiring knowledge. Thus,
Chankya endorses cognition (jnana yoga) as the best way to
conquer self that eventually leads to the desired goal through
accumulation of resources and ethical conduct.

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