The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) that was founded by the father of the Indian space program Vikram Sarabhai, will now teach a course on Bhagwad Gita for corporate professionals to teach management lessons.
The program will commence on December 13 and the course will have lessons and chapters from Gita to ‘to explore contemporary management concepts, conflicts, dilemmas, and trade-offs in business.’
The great Sanatan epic of Mahabharata and Srimad Bhagavadgita is full of lessons and ss per the IIM-A website, ‘Lessons from Bhagawad Gita suggest powerful ways to promote management practices that are consistent with the business model and yet ethical.’
“Lessons from Bhagawad Gita suggest powerful ways to promote management practices that are consistent with business models and yet ethical. This course is focused on early reflections on those learnings,” said an IIM official while speaking with Ahmedabad Mirror.
The course has been divided into 6 sessions of 3 hours each and the objective of the course is to develop insights into making effective choices, strengthen concepts of contemporary management and value-based leadership, develop an understanding of leadership excellence based on the great learnings from the Krishna-Arjun Samwad, Arjun’s dilemma before stepping into the battle, and Krishna’s role as a guide.
“The course will also enable participants to develop competence to face challenging times in their career with confidence. The program aims to sensitize them on ways to develop themselves into effective leaders in the corporate world,” the official had added further.
The content will have a discussion and video films that will include lessons from the Gita, understanding behavioral orientation, role conflict, and outcome amongst others.
The program is being tailored for professionals having 5 years of work experience and they will learn management techniques in decision making, leadership, motivation, strategy planning, negotiation, persuasion, and building teams can enroll for the course.
The cost of the program is Rs 64,000 and the registration closes on November 29.
While speaking with the media, course creator Professor Sunil Maheshwari said, “We teach through a case study method. And if we have to teach managers these skills, what better way than the life of Lord Krishna? His is the best life example to teach effective leadership.”
he further added, “What struck me the most is that the credibility score was very poor, meaning there should be more credible managers and leaders in corporations if we want to move in the right direction.”
“Lessons from Bhagavad Gita help managers live a purposeful life leading to excellence in everything they do. They need to have high credibility, ethics, and a value system,” he said further.
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