Abstract of Published
Papers
Vol III, No. 1, Jan, 2010 (Special Issue on Leadership)
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Rajarshi Paradigm
for Modern Business Leadership
Amit Kr. Giri, Atish Khadse & Sunit Kumar Mishra
Abstract:
Presently the world is facing leadership crisis. This article
tries to give the solution for the ideal type of leadership
required in the present times. Rajarshi leadership which is
an ancient Indian concept of ideal leadership is offered as
a solution for the modern business world and this conclusion
is drawn by getting the insights from the evolution of society,
business, and leadership theories. The remarkable aspect that
comes to the surface from the study of evolution is that society,
business, and leadership theories all are converging towards
the spirituality and have started seeking solution in spirituality.
Now the time has come for India which has been the land of
spirituality for ages to offer the spiritual solution to the
ailing modern world. This article offers the leadership solution
for the modern world from the ancient Indian tradition of
spirituality.
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Responsible Leadership: Qualities Required
and Roles Performed
Mohd.Zohair & Mohd. Wamique Hisam
Abstract:
This paper tries to establish the need of the time to practice
responsible leadership in the globalised work environment.
It sheds light on the qualities needed for responsible leadership
such as moral and ethical as well as emotional and relational.
This paper also unfolds the important value based leadership
roles as a citizen, a servant, a steward and visionary and
operational roles as a change agent, a coach, an architect
and a storyteller.
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Dharma Intervention Model for Developing
Ethical Leadership
Amitabh Pandey & Shivani Mohan
Abstract:
These days corporate scams, corporate frauds and corporate
crime have become a very common and regular phenomenon. We
often wonder why people commit fraud, why they steal things
that do not belong to them and what goes through their minds
when they do such awful things. The answers can be explained
with the help of descriptions given in the ancient Indian
scriptures, which were written centuries ago. Not only this,
these ancient Indian scriptures also offer the remedial measures
for curing the ailment of unethical and devilish behavior.
This paper is an attempt to understand the reasons of unethical
behavior and prepare a model for developing ethical leadership.
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Right Personal Conducts for Effective Leadership:
Learning from Bidur Neeti
A.K.Mishra
Abstract:
Corporate managers know the importance attached to values,
ethics and personal conducts. Their values and personal conducts
are reflected through their leadership style and actions.
Personal conducts of a corporate manager is well visible to
the employees who work under him. A consistency in the saying
of managers and their actual personal conducts play a dominant
role in creating trust between them and employees. Any inconsistency
may lead to a state of mistrust between them. A proper understanding
and deep rooted trust help in enhancing competency among the
managers as well as employees. Such an environment will, no
doubt, motivate employees to yield their maximum output. This
type of environment just cannot develop automatically. Every
manager needs to exhibit a good practice of personal conducts.
Managers who exhibit positive ethical behavior can influence
the actions of employees to a great extent. Personal conducts
of a manager include many things or qualities. It reflects
leadership abilities, individuality, integrity, responsibility,
vision accuracy, respect, dedication, diversity, loyalty,
credibility, honesty, innovativeness, teamwork, accountability,
efficiency, empathy, accomplishment, courage, independence,
security, challenge, influence, learning, compassion, friendliness,
discipline/order, generosity, optimism, dependability, and
so on….As a manager select personal conducts that are
most important to you and exhibit such practices in real actions.
Integrate the values and ethics so that they define your character.
Then live up to your own personal conducts. India is rich
as far as ancient literature is concerned. There are many
ancient Indian literatures available even today. They are
written on different aspects of life and society. One such
great contribution is Bidur neeti.
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Kautilya on Ethical Leadership and its
Relevance for Modern Business World
Sandeep Singh
Abstract:
Kautilya is famous for making Chandragupta Maurya as the king
of Magadha in 4th century B.C. and for writing Arthashastra
which deals with building of a nation on sound economics.
In Arthashastra and many of his other works leadership aspect
has been dealt by him quite emphatically and the ideas and
recommendations expressed by him gathers importance simply
because he himself was responsible to groom a small child
to become the king of Magadha and the empire later on extended
to the whole of present India and Afghanistan to the border
of Persia. This article is an attempt to find out the relevant
concepts of ethical leadership mentioned in the works of Kautilya
and its relevance for the modern business world.
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The Rama of Tulsi: The Leader Beyond Parallels
R.N.Singh & Ms. Meghna Singh
Abstract:
There are several theories today, which explain and define
Leadership in vivid manner, but do they inculcate the concept
of Purushartha in their theories as defined and explained
so clearly in our ancient Indian literature like Vedas, Puranas
or in epics like Ramcharit Manas and Mahabharata . This paper
is an attempt to figure out the true characteristics of Leadership
from ‘Ramcharit Manas written by Tulsi. Ramcharit Manas
reflects that leadership does not come only when you are in
the power, leadership can also be shown when you are in very
odd conditions maintaining the balance of four Purusharthas-
Artha, Dharma, Kama and Moksha. This was exemplified by Rama
of Tulsi when he was exiled soon after the enthronement.
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Management and Leadership Lessons from
Bhagvad Gita for Intensifying Consciousness
Shruti Jain & Kriti Swarup
Abstract:
Believed by some to be over 5,000 years old, the Bhagavad
Gita is one of the world’s oldest known texts. The
manuscript, believed by Hindus to have been inspired by
God provides unique perceptions and prescriptions for modern
day leaders. The Gita offers advice on humanistic and inclusive
leadership, and tells managers to seek a higher level of
consciousness when seeking to influence others. The manuscript
is useful for Hindus, and non-Hindus alike, and represents
an early form of the Western theory of servant leadership.
Using contextual analysis, this paper explores the leadership
implications found in this classic text.
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Exemplary Ethical Leadership of Jamsetji
Nusserwanji Tata
Rohit Singh & Shouvik Sanyal
Abstract:
Tata is arguably the most recognized name in India as far
as business organization is concerned. Its founder Jamsetji
Nusserwanji Tata was an exemplary leader who demonstrated
ethical leadership in all his business endeavours in his
lifetime. This paper attempts to highlight his ethical leadership
which is an example for present business leaders. Dimensions
of his ethical leadership included religious ethics, nationalist
ethics and business ethics. Moreover this paper also shows
how the legacy of his ethical leadership is still pursued
by the Tata Group which he founded.
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Plato’s Perspective on Leadership
Rahul Rajan & Amit Kishore Sinha
Abstract:
Leadership was the most talked topics in the classical thoughts.
The early civilization required a great leader to build the
city state. A pioneer in this field, a classicist; was Plato.
The purpose of this paper is to identify the various perspectives
of leadership emerging in Plato’s classical works: The
Republic, The Statesman, and The Law. This paper tries to
focus on the necessary virtues prescribed by Plato for the
making of an ideal leader and the extremes to be avoided to
become a great leader.
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Sacrificing Dimensions in Organizational
Leadership
Sanjay Saxena & Purnima Awasthi
Abstract:
The aim of the article is to embrace sacrificing dimensions
in leadership repertoire and elicit its implications in organizational
leadership in order to generate intrinsic motivation among
individuals working in the organization. Intrinsic motivation
refers to motivation that comes from inside an individual
rather than from external rewards. The sacrificing dimensions
are discussed in the context of values and morality that emphasizes
on ‘sacrifice rather than satisfying the lower order
needs’, charity rather than acquisitions, sense of contribution
rather than achievement, and sense of excellence rather than
completing the work for materialistic rewards. The roles of
a leader are to develop gracious work culture in the organization
which is the sustainable source of intrinsic motivation among
employees of the organization, to shift the focus of employees
from mode of obsession to mode of graciousness, and to generate
higher level of satisfaction and peace of mind.
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The Hubris Syndrome: The Ethical Failure
of Successful Leaders
Raghunath Jha, Shubhagata Roy & Usha Tripathi
Abstract:
Lack of ethical principles and economic pressures are often
cited as reasons for ethical failure of successful leaders.
This article attempts to highlight that apart from lack of
ethical principles and economic pressures “Hubris Syndrome”
is also responsible for ethical failures of many successful
leaders. “Hubris Syndrome” signifies the state
of a leader where he feels he can get away with anything however
immoral and unethical it may be by virtue of his power and
influence. This article also offers certain guidelines to
overcome this syndrome.
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Spiritual Leadership for Overcoming Karoushi
and Negative Aspects of Overtime Work Cultures in Business
Organizations
Rishi Raman Singh & Pallavi Pathak
Abstract:
The culture of working long hours has become highly prevalent
in the business organizations across the world. Karoushi (death
from overwork) and Overtime Work Cultures (OWC) have both
ethical and financial dimensions. This paper discusses the
phenomenon of karoushi and OWC and its impact on the employees
and organizations. Then spiritual leadership is explained
and offered as a solution to karoushi and the negative aspects
of OWC. This paper argues that spiritual leadership is the
intervention that is most suitable for negative aspects of
long working hours and for enhancing employee wellbeing without
sacrificing profitability, revenue growth, and other indicators
of financial performance.
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Universal Message from Krishna on Leadership
Vinod Solanki & Priyanka Gupta
Abstract:
Lord Krishna, through Bhagvad Gita and his own personal
conduct, has given to this world the universal message on
leadership which has perennial significance irrelevant of
the time and situation. This paper tries to extract some
aspects from the Bhagwadgita and his own personal attributes
which are relevant from the leadership point of view.
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Ethical Leadership and Customer Co-creation:
A Case Study of Tata Nano
K.K.Agarwal & Arun Kumar Rai
Abstract:
Going by the utilitarian principal of the greatest good
of the greatest number, the manufacturing of TATA NANO,
has demonstrated the ethical corporate leadership of Ratan
Tata Tata has created an organizational culture for innovation
and has utilized modern technology with the Gandhian frugality
and developed inconceivably low cost products which find
immediate market in the lower segment. They have fragmented
the entire value chain in such a way that it not only creates
a better value at much lower costs but also involves the
customer with the manufacturing process and thus provides
customer co creation experiences. They have transferred
a part of the assembly process to various assembly points
in the country which would be owned and operated by a new
group of entrepreneurs. This modular design incorporates
for the manufacturing of kits which can then be assembled
locally by thousands of entrepreneurs. This will not only
save on costs and provide an efficient distribution network
of small manufacturers but will also provide jobs in the
country. This fragmentation of their manufacturing process
and transferring a part of it to the group of entrepreneurs
all over India is a novel way of dispersing wealth in the
society.
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Stress Management for Effective Leadership
Through Indian Spiritual Tradition
Srinarain Sharma
Abstract:
Stress is a common phenomenon felt by business leaders.
Today when many business organizations have taken the form
of huge corporations the nature of leadership responsibilities
very often make the leaders running these corporations stressful.
This paper attempts to provide a solution to business leaders
derived from Indian spiritual tradition for effectively
running their business organizations without any stress.
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