Author: S K Chakrabortty
Contributor(s)/Artiste(s): Debangshu Chakraborty
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195692233
Description
Spirituality pervades every sphere, be it business, management, governance, health care, or any other secular engagements. This book explores and analyses how spirituality can stall degenerative trends in these areas.
After pioneering the indigenization of the ‘soft’ aspect of management in India and four-and-a-half decades of teaching, S.K. Chakraborty, along with his co-author Debangshu offer glimpses of the deep-structure relationship between ethically healthy performance and spirituality. The volume is enriched with illustrations from the long history of spiritually inspired leadership practices that provide positive inspiration to Indian businesses and everyday life.
The study cautions against a casual or glib approach to spirituality that can never be another instrument or programme for the single-minded pursuit of unquestioned business goals. It should also not be treated as just another new pasture for so-called research. It is essentially not an intellectual landscape. It is, first and foremost, an experimental-realization journey for the sacred.
READERSHIP
This book offers critical insights into spirituality-in-action that will be useful for leaders and managers of enterprises, scholars and researchers in management, sociology, and psychology, and post-graduate students in these areas.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Values for Spirituality in Organizations: Some Common Doubts and Problems
Spiritual Psychology for Leaders
The Spiritual Law of Ethical Work:
Crumbling Values and Ethics: What Scientists See and Say?
Human Stress: Secular and Spiritual Approaches
Sustainable Economics: 'Spirinomics' in Hindu Thought and Experience
Human Relationships in the Workplace: A Few Spiritual Clues
A Few Architects of Indian Industry: The Architecture of Their Minds
Leadership Truths: Kautilya, Harshavardhana, Kalidasa
Will-to-Yoga, Ego and Leadership: Research or Realization?
Afteword
References
Index