The book, co-edited by IIMB’s Prof. Ramnath Narayanswamy, explores a plethora of ideas and approaches towards imagining and practicing spirituality in management
11 March, 2018, Bengaluru: The book ‘Unbundling the Sixth Sense: Explorations in Spirituality and Management’, co-edited by Professor Ramnath Narayanswamy from the Economics & Social Sciences area of IIMB, will be launched at IIM Bangalore on March 16 (Friday), 2018. The co-editors of the book, published recently by Sampada Publications, are Professor Yochanan Altman and Professor Sunita Singh Sengupta.
Professor G. Raghuram, Director, IIM Bangalore will speak on the occasion. Other guests include Prakash Belawadi, noted film actor and theatre director; Kala Devi, Chief Manager – HR and Regional Head South, Times Foundation at Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd. (Times Group), and Sharat Hegde, Director, Heartfulness Institute.
About the book: The collection of writings on spirituality and management in the book offers a unique in depth insight into the link between spirituality and management in a cross-cultural context. With authors hailing from across Asia, Europe and the United States of America and dealing with a range of topics from workplace spirituality and corporate leadership to business education and individual accounts of spiritual journeys, this compendium offers a spectrum of views, ideas and approaches towards imagining and practicing spirituality in management.
Chapters of this book present current debates on spirituality and links with the workplace, employee engagement, leadership and organizational sustainability. Concepts such as ‘spiritual leadership’ are explored to gain insight into blind spots that leaders should address in managerial capacity and organizational space. Experiential accounts of spiritual journeys and transformation are recounted. The perceived conflict between rational, moral and spiritual approaches to life and to leadership are fleshed out. Attempts to integrate western and Indian views of workplace spirituality as well as to understand the ancient roots of modern business practices in India are made in order to develop robust paths towards organizational sustainability. As a panoply of ideas and approaches towards imagining and practicing spirituality in management, this collection also explores the ‘how’ part of setting objectives, going about obtaining these objectives, and harnessing suitable resources in the process – physical, monetary and human.
This collection follows an international conference on ‘Indigenous Models of Sustainability, Good Governance and Spiritual Transformation’ hosted by IIM Bangalore in collaboration with the Vedic Foundations of Indian Management in New Delhi; and the International Association of Management, Spirituality & Religion, which took place in January, 2016. Submissions were encouraged from practitioners, academia as well as doctoral scholars.
The book will be available at Sapna Book House in all its branches (14 branches in Karnataka and two in Coimbatore), the campus bookshop at IIMB and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and other leading stores. Online purchase can be done through Amazon and Flipkart.
About the editors
Professor Ramnath Narayanswamy is a senior Professor at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Combining Economics, Political Science and Sociology, he secured his doctorate from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, in Paris. He taught at the Center for the Management of the Socialist Economies in the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in Pune. He was Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham (supported by the Rockefeller Foundation) and was Reader in the Centre for Eurasian Studies of the University of Mumbai. He was also invited by the German Foreign Ministry to do a study on The Indian Response to Perestroika 1985-1990 (supported by a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation) at the Federal Institute of East European Studies in Cologne. He was Visiting Professor in the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, the Federal Institute of East European and International Studies in Cologne, McGill University in Canada, The Management School, Lancaster and HEC Montreal. He also held a Visiting Professorship at Nyenrode University in the Netherlands and the School of Business, Economics and Law of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Fluent in several languages, a frequent contributor to professional journals in India and abroad, Dr. Ramnath Narayanswamy has published extensively in his domain. His areas of interest include leadership development, business and culture and society and spirituality.
Professor Yochanan Altman is a charted occupational psychologist and holds a doctorate in occupational anthropology. He specializes in the interface between culture, people and organizations. Educated in Israel and the UK, Yochanan has worked throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, China and Australia. He has over 25 years of experience in business schools and has over a hundred publications in international refereed journals. He is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion. He has been a pioneer in several research initiatives, has a number of achievements to his credit, has been an organizational consultant and occupational psychologist specializing in Human Resources, change management and self-development for over 25 years, and has been actively involved in counselling and psychotherapy for well over a decade. He is on the board of a number of international journals and has been a source of inspiration and guidance to research scholars and doctoral students in the UK and Europe. His work has been translated in several languages including German, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Dutch and Hungarian.
Professor Sunita Singh Sengupta is currently Head and Dean of the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. Prior to that, she was an Associate Professor for about 10 years in the Behavioural Science Group at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. She is the Founder and Convener of Integrating Spirituality and Organizational Leadership Foundation (India & USA) and Chief Mentor of Academy of Value Based Management (a unit of ISOL Foundation). She has authored 28 books and more than 60 articles in national and international journals of repute. Dr. Singh Sengupta is a widely travelled scholar and has lectured in the USA, UK and France. She was the recipient of the distinguished Homi Bhabha Fellowship. Her areas of interest include Business Transformation through Spiritual Leadership, Indigenous Management, Generating Happiness at Workplace, Corporate Social Responsibility, Women Leadership in Organizations, Ethical and Spiritual Foundations of Organizational Development and Exploring the Vedic Foundations of Indian Management. She has inspired significant scholarly initiatives in the domain of organizational leadership, spirituality and Indian management studies.
The programme agenda is as follows:
- Invocation by lighting the lamp
- Welcome address by Rajeev Prasanna
- Book Introduction by Professor Ramnath Narayanswamy
- Director’s Address
- Introducing the Chief Guest by Professor Charan Singh
- Book Release by Shri Chiranjiv Singh
- Address by the Chief Guest
- Introduction of Panel Members and Publisher by Prof. Ramnath Narayanswamy
- Talk by Sharat Hegde and Prakash Belawadi
- Vote of Thanks by Rajeev Prasanna
The book, co-edited by IIMB’s Prof. Ramnath Narayanswamy, explores a plethora of ideas and approaches towards imagining and practicing spirituality in management
11 March, 2018, Bengaluru: The book ‘Unbundling the Sixth Sense: Explorations in Spirituality and Management’, co-edited by Professor Ramnath Narayanswamy from the Economics & Social Sciences area of IIMB, will be launched at IIM Bangalore on March 16 (Friday), 2018. The co-editors of the book, published recently by Sampada Publications, are Professor Yochanan Altman and Professor Sunita Singh Sengupta.
Professor G. Raghuram, Director, IIM Bangalore will speak on the occasion. Other guests include Prakash Belawadi, noted film actor and theatre director; Kala Devi, Chief Manager – HR and Regional Head South, Times Foundation at Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd. (Times Group), and Sharat Hegde, Director, Heartfulness Institute.
About the book: The collection of writings on spirituality and management in the book offers a unique in depth insight into the link between spirituality and management in a cross-cultural context. With authors hailing from across Asia, Europe and the United States of America and dealing with a range of topics from workplace spirituality and corporate leadership to business education and individual accounts of spiritual journeys, this compendium offers a spectrum of views, ideas and approaches towards imagining and practicing spirituality in management.
Chapters of this book present current debates on spirituality and links with the workplace, employee engagement, leadership and organizational sustainability. Concepts such as ‘spiritual leadership’ are explored to gain insight into blind spots that leaders should address in managerial capacity and organizational space. Experiential accounts of spiritual journeys and transformation are recounted. The perceived conflict between rational, moral and spiritual approaches to life and to leadership are fleshed out. Attempts to integrate western and Indian views of workplace spirituality as well as to understand the ancient roots of modern business practices in India are made in order to develop robust paths towards organizational sustainability. As a panoply of ideas and approaches towards imagining and practicing spirituality in management, this collection also explores the ‘how’ part of setting objectives, going about obtaining these objectives, and harnessing suitable resources in the process – physical, monetary and human.
This collection follows an international conference on ‘Indigenous Models of Sustainability, Good Governance and Spiritual Transformation’ hosted by IIM Bangalore in collaboration with the Vedic Foundations of Indian Management in New Delhi; and the International Association of Management, Spirituality & Religion, which took place in January, 2016. Submissions were encouraged from practitioners, academia as well as doctoral scholars.
The book will be available at Sapna Book House in all its branches (14 branches in Karnataka and two in Coimbatore), the campus bookshop at IIMB and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and other leading stores. Online purchase can be done through Amazon and Flipkart.
About the editors
Professor Ramnath Narayanswamy is a senior Professor at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Combining Economics, Political Science and Sociology, he secured his doctorate from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, in Paris. He taught at the Center for the Management of the Socialist Economies in the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in Pune. He was Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham (supported by the Rockefeller Foundation) and was Reader in the Centre for Eurasian Studies of the University of Mumbai. He was also invited by the German Foreign Ministry to do a study on The Indian Response to Perestroika 1985-1990 (supported by a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation) at the Federal Institute of East European Studies in Cologne. He was Visiting Professor in the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, the Federal Institute of East European and International Studies in Cologne, McGill University in Canada, The Management School, Lancaster and HEC Montreal. He also held a Visiting Professorship at Nyenrode University in the Netherlands and the School of Business, Economics and Law of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Fluent in several languages, a frequent contributor to professional journals in India and abroad, Dr. Ramnath Narayanswamy has published extensively in his domain. His areas of interest include leadership development, business and culture and society and spirituality.
Professor Yochanan Altman is a charted occupational psychologist and holds a doctorate in occupational anthropology. He specializes in the interface between culture, people and organizations. Educated in Israel and the UK, Yochanan has worked throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, China and Australia. He has over 25 years of experience in business schools and has over a hundred publications in international refereed journals. He is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion. He has been a pioneer in several research initiatives, has a number of achievements to his credit, has been an organizational consultant and occupational psychologist specializing in Human Resources, change management and self-development for over 25 years, and has been actively involved in counselling and psychotherapy for well over a decade. He is on the board of a number of international journals and has been a source of inspiration and guidance to research scholars and doctoral students in the UK and Europe. His work has been translated in several languages including German, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Dutch and Hungarian.
Professor Sunita Singh Sengupta is currently Head and Dean of the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. Prior to that, she was an Associate Professor for about 10 years in the Behavioural Science Group at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. She is the Founder and Convener of Integrating Spirituality and Organizational Leadership Foundation (India & USA) and Chief Mentor of Academy of Value Based Management (a unit of ISOL Foundation). She has authored 28 books and more than 60 articles in national and international journals of repute. Dr. Singh Sengupta is a widely travelled scholar and has lectured in the USA, UK and France. She was the recipient of the distinguished Homi Bhabha Fellowship. Her areas of interest include Business Transformation through Spiritual Leadership, Indigenous Management, Generating Happiness at Workplace, Corporate Social Responsibility, Women Leadership in Organizations, Ethical and Spiritual Foundations of Organizational Development and Exploring the Vedic Foundations of Indian Management. She has inspired significant scholarly initiatives in the domain of organizational leadership, spirituality and Indian management studies.
The programme agenda is as follows:
- Invocation by lighting the lamp
- Welcome address by Rajeev Prasanna
- Book Introduction by Professor Ramnath Narayanswamy
- Director’s Address
- Introducing the Chief Guest by Professor Charan Singh
- Book Release by Shri Chiranjiv Singh
- Address by the Chief Guest
- Introduction of Panel Members and Publisher by Prof. Ramnath Narayanswamy
- Talk by Sharat Hegde and Prakash Belawadi
- Vote of Thanks by Rajeev Prasanna