-
1Towards Human Excellence and Creativity in Management Education: A Personal VoyageIn Michael Thate & László Zsolnai (eds.), Humanities as a Resource and Inspiration for Humanizing Business, Springer Verlag. pp. 211-221. 2023.The over-arching influence of the widespread and all-engulfing phenomenon of globalization along with the dominance of the forces of market capitalism and the gospel of fierce competition have limited the quest for Creativity and Human Excellence in global business scenario to mere techno-economic pursuits. Deeper, higher and nobler aspects of life and work are hardly taken into consideration while pertinent questions on meaning of work and purpose of life are pushed beyond the margins of everyd…Read more
-
26Non-conventional Entrepreneurial Learning: Spiritual Insights from IndiaJournal of Human Values 13 (1): 23-34. 2007.Spirit connotes the life-breath that enlivens both individuals and organizations. The role of a leader is to unleash in followers this primal creative energy and guide it towards enlightened governance. Although learning organizations grow and evolve in knowledge, conflicts also arise between material knowledge and spiritual wisdom. Using insight from classical Indian wisdom, a more harmonious pursuit of both personal fulfilment and organizational enrichment will be addressed. This article will …Read more
-
38Dialogues from the land of love and deathAI and Society 21 (1-2): 121-140. 2006.Knowledge and action constitute two important and inter-related domains of human existence. The very pace of our modern life with all its material abundance hardly allows us space for the dawning of higher knowledge or scope for imparting deeper meaning into the endless series of our mechanical actions. The limitations of linear thinking, binary logic and specialized disciplines of knowledge prevent our access to a holistic perception of our life-world. The article draws insights from three clas…Read more
-
7Book Reviews : Ananta K. Giri, Values and Ethics in Business. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 1998, 246 pp. Rs. 450 (review)Journal of Human Values 5 (2): 176-178. 1999.
-
43Cultural Diversity and Management Learning: A Study on Tagorean Leadership in Philosophy and ActionPhilosophy of Management 15 (1): 51-64. 2016.A development in Management research is observed in recent years: interface of literature and management. The paper highlights the possibility of constructive impacts on human development through philosophy and experiments of Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel Laureate literary genius from India (1913), in the field of education. The essential equality of all, preservation of cultural diversity, and the infinite possibility of deepening our understanding of each other form the core of Tagorean value…Read more
-
2Book Reviews : Stephen R. Covey, Principle-Centred Leader ship. London: Simon and Schuster Ltd., 1992, pp. 326, £8.99 (review)Journal of Human Values 1 (1): 141-143. 1995.
-
5Chapter 5 Suicided by A Life: Deleuze, Terror and the Search for the ‘Middle Way’In Anindya Purakayastha (ed.), Deleuze and Guattari and Terror, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 104-131. 2022.
-
14Book Reviews : Raff Carmen, Autonomous Development— Humanizing the Landscape: An Excursion into Radical Thinking and Practice. New Delhi: Vistaar Publications, 1996, xii + 244 pp., Rs 295 (review)Journal of Human Values 3 (1): 133-136. 1997.
-
2Creative Spirit in Management Education: Insights from Rabindranath TagoreIn Ora Setter & László Zsolnai (eds.), Caring Management in the New Economy: Socially Responsible Behaviour Through Spirituality, Springer Verlag. pp. 243-262. 2019.Excessive predominance of analytical, logical and quantitatively oriented left brain activity has led to the numbing of creative, intuitive and holistic right brain development. Creativity and joy in the learning experience has been sacrificed on the altar of this fossilized system just to ensure the ‘rigor’ of pedagogical methods and processes. The victims of this mechanized and often mindless, utilitarian knowledge are not only students but also faculty, who are hard-pressed in the rush for ru…Read more
-
18Book Reviews : Ananta K. Giri, Values and Ethics in Business. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 1998, 246 pp. Rs. 450 (review)Journal of Human Values 5 (2): 176-178. 1999.
-
11Book reviews : P.L. Dhar and R.R. Gaur, Science & Humanism: Towards a Unified World View. New Delhi: Commonwealth Pub lishers, 1992, xii + 139 pp, Rs 70 (review)Journal of Human Values 1 (2): 269-271. 1995.
-
39Book reviews : P.L. Dhar and R.R. Gaur, Science & Humanism: Towards a Unified World View. New Delhi: Commonwealth Pub lishers, 1992, xii + 139 pp, Rs 70 (review)Journal of Human Values 1 (2): 269-271. 1995.
-
3Book Reviews : Raff Carmen, Autonomous Development— Humanizing the Landscape: An Excursion into Radical Thinking and Practice. New Delhi: Vistaar Publications, 1996, xii + 244 pp., Rs 295 (review)Journal of Human Values 3 (1): 133-136. 1997.
-
26The Relevance of Spirituality and Corporate Social Responsibility in Management Education: Insights from Classical Indian WisdomPhilosophy of Management 19 (4): 469-497. 2020.In this technology-driven Digital Age, Management Education is primarily engaged in development of skills and techno-economic competence of students with dominant thrust on sharpening their rational faculties and quantitative ability. Deeper questions and nobler qualittative issues like Spirituality, Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics are naturally assigned low priority in the rush for money, career, fame, power and position both at the individual and organizational levels. The present p…Read more
-
34Book Reviews : Stephen R. Covey, Principle-Centred Leader ship. London: Simon and Schuster Ltd., 1992, pp. 326, £8.99Journal of Human Values 1 (1): 141-143. 1995.
-
2Management and Liberal Arts: A Transformational Odyssey with Rabindranath TagoreIn Luk Bouckaert, Knut J. Ims & Peter Rona (eds.), Art, Spirituality and Economics: Liber Amicorum for Laszlo Zsolnai, Springer Verlag. pp. 139-156. 2018.The need for mainstreaming inputs from literature, poetry and music in MBA curriculum and corporate training modules arises from the acute inadequacy to deal with the complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity and turbulence in the business scenario today. The art of managing people is not just a matter of deployment of a set of skills or use of stereotyped formulae but awakening and unleashing our creative potential energy in its deepest and widest sense. In the twentieth century Rabindranath Tagore, t…Read more
-
17Managerial Transformation for TQM: Indian InsightsJournal of Human Values 4 (1): 77-93. 1998.The paper outlines an indigenous approach to managerial transformation for TQM primarily based on the classical wisdom literature of India. It lays emphasis on the transformation of the subjective domain of the individual as a prior requirement for ensuring quality in other dimensions of the organization. An indepth exploration of a model of the human being, purpose of life and meaning of work have been attempted with specific methodological implications for the individual and the organization. …Read more