Management Principles and Practice from Ramayan and Mahabharat

This book serves to study the Ramayan and Mahabharat as a guide for management principles and practices. Aspiring managers can draw timeless learnings from the characters and stories by incorporating their impartial perspectives. Every chapter limits itself to a particular episode of Ramayan and Mahabharat with the help of which reader can understand insights of management. It will guide for effective ethical governance, issues in leadership, decision making, HR practices, collaboration and networking, organisation culture, planning, honesty, altruism, just and fair, control, communication, organising, and teamwork. Budding managers can learn lessons from the characters and the narratives by adding their unbiased fresh perceptions. Reader should read chapters with an open mindset and a willingness to learn. In the Ramayan, one can discover core of existence and framework for conducting one’s life with integrity, kindness, and excellence. Its lasting wisdom facilitates us to flourish in every field of management if we explore specific themes, characters, and events, with practical insights. This book attempts to connect ancient teachings of the Bharat with contemporary management practices. Which will allow the modern-day managers to reflect, understand and explain management through these events and characters. They can conduct rigorous open debates within their organization with the help of each chapter of the book. These chapters will facilitate managers to recognize ancient wisdom through focal episodes. Each chapter organized in an interesting manner, after reading the episode today’s manager can contextualize, discuss, and crystalize management lessons from it. After description of episode at the end issues of management have presented so that a corporate leader, manager, an entrepreneur, or a student, can easily relate and acquire management skills.