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INTRODUCTION
WHY VALUES?
IPCL
BILWARA
IMPLICATIONS OF WORKSHOP
LIMITATIONS OF WORKSHOP
CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
Man in a manager, man in the worker is primarily a spiritual and mental
being, or in other words a soul and a mind, and only instrumentally a vital and a
physical being or a mere life and a body. In a similar way, the long term viability
and progress or the sustainable all round development of a nation depend not so
much on its material, ecological or technological resources but primarily on its
human resources having ample potential energies spiritual and psychological
resources of our people.
Fortunately, in India we have the immense potential of our insight, and
culture for motivating, managing and leading of our abundant human resources.
Values and ideas in our ethos and culture are based on and evolved form the
deepest truth of Man, Life and Nature, i.e., on holistic approach.
WHY VALUES?
Our effectiveness at work is tied to exercising intrinsic human values i.e.,
moral and ethical values. These human values support established business
values such as service, communication, innovation, creativity, excellence,
credibility and co-ordination. The human values help self- development.
Managerial functions such as direction, control, supervision and communication,
integration and co-ordination are much easier. These values help good
interpersonal interactions. They reduce conflicts and disputes. They are the
part and parcel of achieving accelerated process improvement, customer,
workers and citizen satisfaction. They enhance reputation and goodwill of the
organization.
We seek fulfillment, happiness and success. It is a combination of inner
and outer achievement. Inner fulfillment is related to our spiritual, mental,
emotional and physical enrichment. The outer achievement is related to
achieving set goals, using one's talent and experience for the benefit of others
(employees, customers, clients and public). Self- development is the
development of the whole being.
TELCO
The author Sarosh J. Ghandy shares his thoughts and his experience on
the value system prevailing in the TELCO. He starts with the most important
value of the organization which is the trust and the belief which the Tata
leaders have held in their men. They believe the best can be achieved only
through this mode. Here the author presents an encounter where J. R. D. Tata
confers full trust on Mr. Charles Perin, a geological surveyer. J. R. D. Tata
entrusted full responsibility of site selection of steel plant on Mr. Perin. This
was the trust J. R. D. Tata held on Mr. Perin thus reflecting the value system of
the organization.
And thus the leaders at Tata allow their men to act on their own and thus
providing them immense opportunities to become leaders and thus give scope to
their creative impulses.
One of the values that Tata's have inculcated among their men is that of
environmental protection. They have constantly adopted villages for the
purpose and thus staying with the commitment of social responsibility.
Tata's also encouraged workshops to help their men search for their own
values as well as help them augment their knowledge about the value system of
Tatas. Thus the values of the organization and the values of the individuals
were homogenized. After the program the employees were surveyed and the
values were ranked according to the significance the employee attach to them.
2. Commitment to productivity
3. Development of personnel
4. Corporate ethics
5. Customer affection
6. Environment development
And thus it can be said that world class modernization, high sales
turnover is supported by a strong value system. Therefore rightly said in the
words of Robert D. Hass of Levi Strauss,
"Values provide a common language for aligning a company's leadership
and its people."
BILWARA
Bilwaras value-system efforts began in 1980, when the author MR.L.N.
Jhunjhunwala was introduced to this subject by a monk of the famous
Ramakrishna mission. Mr. Jhunjhunwala had spoken to Ramakrishna about the
disturbing trends in industry today; he narrated that today the atmosphere was
such that honesty could not co-exist with industrial & business prosperity. He
has also given examples of lot of people who had reached the peak of prosperity
through wrong ways.
The monk has narrated the story of Jamshedji & Swami Vivekananda,
that once J.R.D. TATA & Swami Vivekananda was together travelling on ship
from India to Japan. J.R.D. Tata talked to his companion about the necessity of
science & technology in India & his ambition for creating a big research
institute in Bangalore. He wanted Swamiji to implement this vision in order to
build up our backward country. But Swamiji told that he could not join him, but
influenced him to go ahead & complete his vision. Which brings Mr.
Jhunjhunwala the light of inspired value system & character of Tata Empire,
which is still surviving.
With few meetings with monk, the author has experienced instances of
house of Ambalal Sarabhai & house of Birlas.
Also, Swami Buddhananda tried to explain that businessman was not an
exception to the law of truth & that the prosperity of the span of house
depends on the Tapasya of the founder & the team which creates the
organization.
In 1983, the first corporate experiment on INDIAN INSIGHTS FOR
VALUES seminar was organized in the forest of Siriska in the atmosphere
similar to that of hermitage.
The workshop lasted for two nights & three days with 7 hours of
expositions & discussions in 3 sessions each day followed by intensive
practice sessions.
The workshop was attended by Bilwaras top ten people, including Mr. L.N.
Jhunjhunwala & his three family members.
Everybody was spellbound by the end of seminar & found themselves better
human beings than what they had stated. In this way the seminar continued, 3-4
times in a year & non- residential courses for four years till the end of 1986.
The second session was taken very lightly by three profit center heads.
whereas the third session was ignored by the profit center heads. But there
was atleast 3 out of ten who were serious about it.
The three profit center heads hint that all these talks of INDIAN
INSIGHTS FOR VALUES were for those who could not deliver the goods. They
have no relevance to corporate life. The programme did not seem to be valued
by the company.
At this, the workshop was resumed from 1987 onwards where other
colleagues were asked to initiate the particular subject. The workshop was
based on three pillars of Indian ethos doctrine of karma, the theory of
samskars and the dynamism of guna system. This is how the efforts
continued on limited scale. This has helped in the last two years. Their centers
of operation are now much more profitable. All this had happened for the best.
In a nutshell it can be said that the values & dedication automatically
brings skill & raises employees efforts & improve their behavior.
Managerial Effectiveness
Value
Orientation
Pure Mind
Four traditional methods of
1. Janna
Yoga
2. Raja
Yoga
3. Bhakti
Yoga
4. Karma
Yoga
Yoga
Self surrender to the Lord and emotionally one can reach the goal of pure
consciousness or Divinity. For e.g. Patanjalis Yoga.
BRAIN STILLING:
Improved cooperation
Increased creativity
Improved quality
Enhancing generosity
CONCLUSION
Chakraborty's innovative approach to value education for practising
managers is impressive. He has culled out selected psycho-spiritual values from
the traditional wisdom literature of India, suitably reinterpreted them and
woven them together to form a coherent theory of human values. This theory is
then utilised to explain the problems and tensions of both personal and work life
of modern professionals and to indicate the way for a better quality of life.
That this approach finds deep resonance in the hearts and minds of Indian
managers is evident from our observations of the course participants'
enthusiastic, and at times deeply moving, articulations at the conclusion of the
workshops.
"At the beginning of section II we raised the question whether human
values can be taught and with what degree of effectiveness". Judging from the
course participant's responses, Chakraborty's approach seems to have met with
mostly deep appreciation. Such response undoubtably provides a fertile soil for
reexamining and developing one's human values. To that extent it is evident that
the workshops have been effective in influencing the human values of the
course participants. However, it is difficult to reach any conclusion as to what
extent the course objectives have been interiorised by the course participants
and the general learning effects of the workshops in the daily lives of the
participants. What are the effects in the managers' work and family lives, and
do their decisions reflect an increased awareness of human values? Neither can
we draw any conclusions about the duration of the effects, i.e. whether it will
last for a day or week and then vanish, or if the effects are stable and
enduring.
It is also evident from the responses and the stated objectives of the
course that the main focus is on the self; self-awareness, self-analysis and
self-development. It is consistent with the view that the individual is the
cornerstone of all changes and transformations at the organizational as well as
the societal levels. While the necessity of this self-development as a
precondition for the value transformation in society may not be in doubt, the
emphasis on it may convey the message that it is also sufficient for all the value
problems of today's living. At the organizational level the difficulty may be
posed in terms of two distinct, though related, categories of intra-personal and
inter-personal values. The latter are of vital significance to managers'
organizational role of a team leader, a change agent or a member of a work
group. A heightened sensitivity to personal virtues, which is very effective at
the intra-personal level, in itself may not be sufficient for values needed for