Human and values constitute the wealth of character. Values express “dharma” or divine nature as understood in he East, particularly in the Indian ethos and insight, and ideas of “integrity” as understood in the West.
Our effectiveness at work is tied to exercising intrinsic human values, i.e. moral and ethic values. These human values support established business values such as service, communication, excellence, credibility, innovation, creativity and co-ordination. The human values help self-development and good interpersonal interactions. They reduce conflicts and disputes. They are part and parcel of achieving accelerated process improvement, customer, workers, and citizen satisfaction. They enhance reputation and goodwill of the organization.
Ethical and moral values and character alone can accelerate the unfolding of person’s divinity. Such a person will have poise, wisdom, harmony and peace to manage effectively others and to assure enriched quality of mind as well as enriched quality of work.
Effectiveness in performance of leader and workers is a function of values and skill together; every effort must be made by the leaders (top management) in the organization to inculcate values. Values relate to the internal domain of business i.e. interactions with employees; customers, suppliers, creditors, public etc. in the corporate mission or creed we describe values, vision, goals and objectives cherished by the organization.
Values should be an integral part of corporate mission, objectives. They should be expressly mentioned in the mission document. Te members of the management team and the union leaders of workers must be regularly exposed to spiritualization, satsang of spiritual leaders, seminars and workshops, meditation, introspection common prayers etc. the leaders should inculcate the spirit of giving rather than taking in the work life.
One must also emphasize integrated personality development in which enduring values enjoy the right place along with the requisite skills. To bring about a radical change in the thought, speech, action nd behavior oneself needs disciplined, sustained, conscious and well directed effort or sadhana.
Values driven management combined with requisite skills improves the quality of work life and enhances the reputation of a company. When management and the staff translate value-orientation into their everyday lives, they would be better leaders and team members. They would also receive voluntary co-operation from their peers and juniors of our mind and heart. Management by consciousness demands prescience of values in oru character and personality.
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