"False Vairagya has ruined more men then even atheism has ever done." Swami Chinmayananda        
 
 


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Basic Principles of IEM – Indian Ethos in Management
   
There are 3 basic principles that guide the Indian Ethos in Management. They are:

1. Unleashing Infinite Potential
Tat Tvam Asi – You are That (Supreme). Each one of us have immense potential. We were born with a supercomputer(our brain), a stereosystem(the ears), audiovisual unit and the best camera(the eyes). Are we using these to their full capacity? Mahatma Gandhi, Amitabh Bachhan, etc. discovered their potential, translated their potential to performance and performed to their potential.
2. Holistic Approach
Health of a company does not depend upon the economy or productivity but on one important aspect that is, how best it can satisfy the customers. In helping the society achieve its goal a company also seeks to maximize its personal interest. This is the application of holistic principle – Atmano Mokshaya Jagat Hitaaya ca (For one’s own emancipation or development and for the good of the humanity). The more closely a
  

company concentrates on any of the problems of the society, the better it is able to solve its own problems.
   
Chemical fertilizers erode the soil and spoil vegetation. Excel industries started making manures, treating garbage with microbes and thus helped the society to solve two problems at the same time. This is holistic approach.
  
     

3. Subjectivity:
Sukshma or the subtle subjective, intangible factors are equally important than sthula or gross, concrete, objective, tangible factors. In Hinduism, Lord Shiva has three eyes. The third eye is the eye of Wisdom & intuition. A manager must develop this third eye – vision, foresight and insight.

Management is NOT ‘getting things done by others’ but ‘helping ordinary people to produce extra-ordinary results.’ Productivity of men’s capacity is more important than plant capacity.

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Six Principles of Indian Ethos for Management(IEM)
   
1. The Basic Principles:
Each soul is essentially Divine. Discovering Divinity is the purpose of work.
a.Tat Tvam Asi: You are That(Supreme) - Everybody can make himself a Genius.
b. Aham Brahmasmi : I have immense potential. I can make the impossible possible.
2. Why Work ?
a. Atmano Mokshaya Jagat Hitaaya Ca:
- For my personal growth
- For the Welfare of the World (Synchronise your private benefits with public benefits)
3. What is work?
a. Yagnayacharatah karma: Work is to be done with the spirit of Yagna(Teamwork, Selflessness).

b. Parasparam Bhavayantah: Nurture each other (Win-win approach).
4. How to work?
a. Seva + Tyag:
Serve others. Give your best for the good of others.
5. Spirit of Work:
a. Yogah Karmasu Kaushalam: Dexterity & Excellence in action is Yoga.
6. The Resources:
a. Sukshma/Subjective or subtle factors are more important than Sthula/Objective or gross factors.
b. Karma-Kshetra is Dharma-Kshetra, Making the workplace sacred, clean and bringing orderliness and regularity.
   

Today there are many professionals and industrialists who are great achievers but unfortunately suffering from stress, competition, jealousy and psychological problems along with heart diseases and diabetes. On the other hand there are many who are contended and happy but are not achievers. What is needed today is a combination of these two qualities. One should be a great achiever and at the same time should live a peaceful life. IEM can offer this blending.

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Team Work or Yagna
   

TEAM - Together Everyone Achieves More

Yagna means sacrifice. In a Yagna conducted in the Vedic period, the members of the community came together in a spirit of dedication and sacrifice for the purpose of a co-operative spiritual and divine endeavor to invoke the grace of the Presiding Deity for the blessings of the community, for the peace of the world, for the prosperity in wealth etc.

In modern context, a yagna means

a. Any self-sacrificing work undertaken in a spirit of self-dedication, for the blessing of all.

b. Any social, communal, national or personal activity into which the individual is ready to pour himself forth entirely in a spirit of service and dedication.

Features of a Yagna:

a. Inspiring goal for prosperity of everyone
b. Working together in team-spirit
c. Sharing the results

The yagna-spirit is seen everywhere in nature: The Sun shines, the moon appears, the sea throbs, the earth bears – all in a spirit of sacrifice and self-dedicated motherly love, never with even a trace of attachment or any kind of self-arrogating motives.

The law-of-seva is faithfully followed by every sentient and insentient member of the cosmos instinctively. Man alone is given the freedom to act as he likes and to the extent he disobeys this Universal Law-of-sacrifice(yagna), to that extent he comes to suffers because of his arrogant and egoistic actions, brings discord in the harmony of the existence around him.
   

The Purusha Sooktam describes the process of creation and how the entire creation has been created through the Yagna.

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Motivation
MAS Vs KOS
(Maslow Vs Koshas)
   
Abraham Maslow’s theory of needs is generally followed by many organizations to motivate their employees by fulfilling the different needs of the employees. The Pancha-kosha description in the Taittiriya
  
Upanishad of Indian Scriptures not only encompasses Maslow’s theory in itself, but also reveals the transcendental aspect of one’s personality. Mentioned below are the similarities and limitations.
   
Maslow’s Theory of Needs Pancha Koshas(Taittiriya Upanishad)
Physiological needs – food, air, water, sleep, sex & other basic needs.
Food Sheath – Body is made up of food, sustains, grows by food and at death goes back to food.
Safety needs – Home, Job security, insurance, pension etc.
Vital Air Sheath– consists of physiological systems which keep one alive – respiration, excretion, digestion, circulation, assimilation.
Love/Social needs – Need to be loved, to belong to social groups, status, recognition etc.
Mental Sheath– Faculty of emotion, feeling, sentiments etc.
Self esteem needs – Need for self-respect, sense of achievement, self-confidence, prestige etc.
Intellectual Sheath – faculty of thinking, discriminating, analyzing, decision- making etc.

Self Actualisation needs- Fulfilling one’s potential and being the best one is capable of.
Bliss Sheath – Experience of joy, bliss especially in dreamless sleep when one is not conscious of Body, Mind, Intellect
Nothing to represent Divinity
OM or Truth is subtler than the 5 sheaths.
Human beings are considered as “wanting” organisms.
Human beings are considered Divine and different from the 5 layers of matter.
One discovers one’s finite potential through self-actualisation.

One discovers one’s Infinite potential through Self-Realisation.

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Total Quality Management
Total Quality Management through Total Quality Mind
   

When an artist paints a marvelous canvas, objectively, it goes without saying that it must have been the creation of a highly sensitive and lofty mind (subjective mind) projecting externally what was within. This simple truth explains every form of human creation and indeed cosmic creation.
Total Quality Mind (TQM1) is the cause and Total Quality Management (TQM2) is the effect.

Quality always originates in the subjective realm. The purer and the more internally coherent and autonomous it can be for each employee, the better will be the chance of Management, delivering true and sustainable results.

Total Quality mind is a mind that –

1. Understands and pursues purification of the heart.

2. Strives to maintain inner poise

 
through recognition & denial, praise & blame, success & failure etc.

3. Adopts the discipline of stilling thoughts and regulating breath.

4. Commits itself to the task of learning to earn joy from co-operation and sharing, rather than from competition and grabbing.

5. Is willing to foster the natural inner affluence and contain the artificial outer attachments.

6. Seeks to learn and practice all duty as homage to the Cosmic Worker.

7. A mind that is learning to face the only certain fact of living - physical death, and preparing quietly and daily for this culmination as a noble finale, whenever and however it might come.
   
A mind that sets itself on TQM1 track will deplete less and less from psychological entropy. From past to our own times, it is such ‘total quality minds’ that have sustained Indian civilization.
       
         
   

What explains even in these hi-tech days the large markets abroad for Indian handicrafts produced in the backyard of poor villagers with the simplest materials and tools? What again explains the worldwide acclaim won by a C.V.Raman or a Satyen Bose in the field of science, working in the ill-equipped laboratories of Calcutta University?

Ans: Inner Quality, not merely external systems-structures.

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