Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ203328

Propounding Bhagavadgita as a Philosophy of Management

Authors(1) :-Ajay Jaiswal

Much of the principles of management studied today are considered to have been established in the past three centuries. The very term ‘management’ has been often viewed as a concept of late modernity. However, one may also may contend that management principles have existed for millennia and great philosophers and sages from antiquity have to this discipline explicitly and implicitly. One such perennial source of inspiration to all the scholars and practitioners of management could be the Bhagvadgītā (hereafter as the BG), a foundational text of Indian philosophy of Vedānta. In this paper, an attempt has been made to propound the BG as a text of the philosophy of management along with some illustrations and a reflection on the concepts of philosophy and management. The paper is divided into three parts. The first part attempts to provide a working definition of philosophy and investigate the BG as a text of philosophy. In the second part, the BG is also analyzed in terms of the philosophy of management. In the third and final part, followed by the conclusion, the paper puts forwards some of the foundational principles of the philosophy of management that we can learn from the BG.

Authors and Affiliations

Ajay Jaiswal
Research Scholar, Center for Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

bhagavadgita and management, nishkama karma, philosophy, philosophy of management, the allegory of the chariot.

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 3 | Issue 3 | May-June 2020
Date of Publication : 2020-06-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 113-118
Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ203328
Publisher : Shauryam Research Institute

ISSN : 2581-6306

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Ajay Jaiswal , "Propounding Bhagavadgita as a Philosophy of Management", Shodhshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (SHISRRJ), ISSN : 2581-6306, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp.113-118, May-June.2020
URL : https://shisrrj.com/SHISRRJ203328

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