INDIAN WISDOM FOR MANAGEMENT AND ITS RELEVANCE IN MODERN MANAGEMENT: A REVIEW

KEYWORDS 
Indian Wisdom for Management (IWM), Work Ethics, Managerial mindset.

In this modern world, the art of Management has become a part and parcel of everyday life, be it at home in the office or factory or in Government. A Manager constantly strives for managing the organizational affairs in a superior and ethical manner. For achieving this objective one requires to have a superior skill set and excellent mindset. Although modern-day management training focuses on skill-building yet as far as shaping an excellent mindset is concerned it severely lacks the know-how. This paper focuses on how the complexities of the modern management system can take lessons from our ancient Indian thoughts and wisdom. Be it the Ramayana or the Bhagavad Gita they are relevant in the 21st century for us because of these principles of management implicit in them are not objects of archives but living lessons for generations to come, without over sighting the fact that they at best supplement or support existing principles or practices of management

Ritvik Dubey
The author is Dean (Academics) and Chairperson-BCEIP at Sri Sharada Institute of Indian Management-Research, New Delhi. He can be reached at dr.ritvikdubey@gmail.com