CHANGING RELATIONS AT WORKPLACE

PRESENTATION BY :

SH. D. BHATTACHARYYA, ADVISOR (L&D), IFFCO LTD.

Lord Macaulay’s address to the British Parliament on 2nd Feb. 1835

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“I have travelled across the length and breadth of India

and I have not seen one person who is a begger, such

wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral

values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we

would ever conquer this country, unless we break the

very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and

cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we

replace her old and ancient education system, her

culture, for if the indians think that all that is foreign is

good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-

esteem, their native culture and they will become what

we want them, a truly dominated nation”

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PARADIGM SHIFT IN CHANGE PROCESS

TECHNICAL/SKILL

BUILDING ORIENTATION HOLISTIC APPROACH

I.Q.

QUANTITY OF PRODUCTION

LOW LEVEL/LINEAR THINKING

S.Q.

QUALITY OF MIND SET

THINKING AT CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL

NEEDING MODEL OF MOTIVATION

GIVING MODEL OF INSPIRATION

SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP WISDOM LEADERSHIP

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HUMAN MIND HUMAN MIND IS LIKE

B. MONKEY - Constitutional Restlessness

C. DRUNK WITH LIQUOR

-Endless desires Liquor

D. SCORPION

-Jealous / Envy

E. DEMON

-Pride/vanity

A. WATER

- Left to itself, it flows downwards

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PERFORMANCE EQUATION

INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE = ABILITY X INTRINSIC MOTIVATION X ORGN CULTURAL SUPPORT

PERFORMANCE OF ANY INDIVIDUAL ON A GIVEN JOB DEPENDS ON THREE SETS OF FACTORS:

COMPETENCIES

INNER DESIRE

WORK ENVIORNMENT

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PHYSICAL (Doing Dimension)

HOLISTIC CHANGE PROCESS

MENTAL (Intellectual Dimension)

SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL (Relationship Dimension)

VALUES (Becoming Dimension)

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ETHICS IN INDIAN CULTURE

CONTENTMENT – Acceptance of the external situation we are alloted in this life.

AUSTERITY – Deep commitment to Yoga practices for unification of the self with the Supreme.

SELF STUDY – Spiritual self education

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ETHICS IN INDIAN CULTURE

NON-VIOLENCE – Not harming other people, being tolerant even for that which we dislike. Not speaking that which, even though truthful, would hurt others.

TRUTHFULNESS – Not intending to deceive others in our thoughts as well as in our words and actions.

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ETHICS IN INDIAN CULTURE

NON-STEALING – Not taking that which is not ours.

ABSTENTION FROM GREED – Not coveting that which is not ours. Avoidance of unnecessary acquisition of objects.

CLEANLINESS – Not only external cleanliness of the body but purification of mind.

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ON INTELLECT, REASON V. HEART/ EMOTIONS/ FEELINGS

‘And certainly we should take care not to make the intellect our God; it has, of course, powerful muscles ,but no personality. It cannot lead; it can only serve; … The intellect has a sharp eye for methods, and tools, but it is blind to ends & values.’ …Sir Einstein

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ON INTELLECT, REASON V. HEART/ EMOTIONS/ FEELINGS

The intellect is blind & can’t move of itself… It is an inactive, secondary help; the real help is feeling, love. Intellect is like limbs without the power of locomotion. It is only when feeling enters & gives them motion that they

move & work on others… It is the heart that takes one to the highest place, where intellect can never reach. It goes beyond intellect & reaches what is called inspiration’.

.…Swami Vivekananda

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ON INTELLECT, REASON V. HEART/ EMOTIONS/ FEELINGS

• Even more important than knowledge is the life of emotions. Given knowledge and competence combined with folly, there can be no certainty of survival. It follows that unless man increase wisdom as much as knowledge, increase of knowledge will be increase of sorrow.

…Bertrand Russell

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Wisdom Leadership Says Swarat Samrat Bhavati

(i)Swarat means who can exercise leadership on his own

(ii)Samrat means who can exercise leadership on others

Those who can exercise leadership on his own can exercise leadership on others.

In action what we see in them

(i) Priority to Role over self

(ii) Abiding by Cosmic rhythm

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Leadership Values 1. The real test of a leader lies in holding

widely different people together, along the line of their common sympathies. And this can only be done unconsciously, never by trying.

2. ‘It is selfishness that we must seek to eliminate’. I find whenever I have made a mistake in my life, it has always been ‘self’ centered into the calculation. Where ‘self’ has not been involved, my judgment has gone straight to the mark.’

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Leadership Values (continued)…

3. It is a very difficult task to take on the role of a leader. One must be a servant of servants, and must accommodate a thousand minds. There must not be a shade of jealousy or selfishness, then only you are a leader.

4. ‘Know partiality to be the chief cause of all evil.’

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Leadership Values (continued)…

5. ‘It is absolutely necessary to the work that I should have the enthusiastic love of as many as possible, while I myself remain entirely impersonal. Otherwise jealousy and quarrels will break up everything. A leader must be impersonal…..’

6. Do not try to lead your brothers, but serve them. The brutal mania for leading has sunk many a great ship in the waters of life.’

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Leadership Values (continued)…

7. ‘Be the servant of all, and do not try in the least to govern others…. Nobody will come to help you if you put yourself forward as a leader…. Kill ‘self’ first if you want to succeed.’

8. He who is the servant of all is their true master. He never becomes a leader in whose love there is a consideration of high or low. He whose love knows no end, and never stops to consider high or low, has the whole world lying to his feet.

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Leadership Values (continued)…

9. Not a single one of Lord Krishna’s deeds was done for himself. Every one of them was for the good of others. A true leader should follow the path of Lord Krishna.

Swami Vivekananda

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Wisdom Leadership RAJASHRI MODEL: Combination of Raja and Rishi RAJA is doing / Skill dimension (Secular - means mundane, materialistic) RISHI is being / Values dimension (Sacred – Spiritual, Detached)

Sacred must guide the Secular dimension

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Rajarshi Leadership

Process

Player

LOVE DISCIPLINE

LEADER Impersonal Love

Higher Self

Sattwa Guna

Self-restrain

Self Control

Renunciation

Charisma

TEAM

MEMBER

Maitri Bhavna

Karuna Bhavna

Mudita Bhavna

Upekha Bhavna

Hierarchism

Obedience

Rituals

Dandaniti

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Rituals and Dandaniti Rituals • It is a practical process of developing people’s

behaviour for collective consciousness. Dandaniti • It implies the provision for reprimand or

punishment for acts of indiscipline by followers. • It is like when the hand is beating, heart is

weeping • This is like Mother-Child relationship when the

child is beaten by the mother for doing wrong cause.

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Charisma – Charisma of the Leader binds the followers.

Destructive Constructive

Hitler Mahatma Gandhi

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Maitri Bhavna – Friendliness towards happy

Karuna Bhavna – Compassion for the unhappy

Mudita Bhavna – Humble appreciation of the virtuous

Upekha Bhavna – Indifference towards the wicked

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Golden Rule for leader - follower relationship

“The Senior should not remember that he is Senior,

The Junior should not forget that he is Junior.”

CHANGING RELATIONS

HUMAN VALUES SYSTEMS

MIND PURIFICATION

LOWER/ HIGHER

SELF

LAW OF PSYCHO FORCES

LAW OF CAUSE

& EFFECT

ART & SCIENCE

OF WORK

GIVING MODEL OF

INSPIRATION

TRANSFORMING LIVES

DEVELOPING HIGHER MIND SET

SATSANG – COMPANY OF HOLY BOOKS, HOLY MEN, ATTENDING

SPIRITUAL DISCOURSES

MEDITATION - CONTEMPLATION OF ONE’S CHOSEN DEITY

ALTERNATE NOSTRIL DEEP BREATHING

RIGHT FOOD HABITS

VISIT TO HOLY PLACES

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Law of Psychological Forces (Guna Theory)

SATTWA - Liberates - Illuminating Force

RAJAS - Binds - Dynamic Force

TAMAS - Kills - Obstructive Force/

Darkness

- Lower Self is connected with RAJAS & TAMAS

- Higher Self is connected with SATTWA

Contd..

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Guna Theory (Contd…)

SATTWA :

RAJAS

TAMAS

Serenity, Charity, Patience,

Forgiveness,Self Sacrificing,

Poise, Transparence

Anger, Greed, Jealousy,

Arrogance,Vanity, Croockedness, Vindictiveness, Fluctuating moods.

Indecision, Laziness,

Procrastination, Confusion

List of Characteristics of Three Gunas

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Guna Theory (Contd…)

List of Characteristics of Three Gunas

SATTWA : Serenity, Charity, Patience,

Forgiveness, Self Sacrificing,

Poise, Transparence

RAJAS : Anger, Greed, Jealousy,

Arrogance, Vanity,

Croockedness, Vindictiveness,

Fluctuating moods.

TAMAS : Indecision, Laziness,

Procrastination, Confusion

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1. A cause at present must produce an effect in the future.

2. An effect at present must have had a cause in the past.

3. The effect returns to the source of the cause.

4. Each cause produces its own effect, there is no mutual cancellation.

5. Like cause, like effect.

6. This law of cause and effect applies as much to a whole nation, a community, an organisation, a family as to an individual.

LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT

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Art and Science of Work

Nishkam Karma Sakam Karma

Psychological Energy Psychological

Conservation Burn-out

Reactionless Action Reactionful Action

Perfection is the Aim Success is the Aim

Contd..

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Art and Science of Work (Contd..)

Inner Autonomy

Mind Enrichment

Work Commitment

Dependence on Externals

Job Enrichment

Reward Commitment

Nishkam Karma

Sakam Karma

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Individual in Society: 5-Fold Debt Debt to For Mode of

Repayment

1 Symbolic force of

nature

Light, air, water etc. Prayer and Surrender

(say prayer to the

sun) (prarthana,

prapatti)

2 Sages Legacy of Wisdom Self study with

reverence & practice

(swadhyaya Abhyas)

3 Parents Being here social status Service (Seva)

4 Humanity at large Enjoying unending

network at services and

sacrifices

Silent Charity

5 Sub-human species-

Trees, Animals etc.

Making living possible Caring with Gratitude

(e.g. nurturing a plant

at home as a baby)

INDIVIDUAL IN SOCIETY : 5 FOLD DEBT

LAW OF GIVING

IF YOU WANT JOY, GIVE JOY TO OTHERS

IF YOU WANT LOVE, LEARN TO GIVE LOVE

IF YOU WANT ATTENTION & APPRECIATION,

LEARN TO GIVE SAME

IF YOU WANT MATERIAL AFFLUENCE, HELP OTHERS TO BECOME MATERIALLY AFFLUENT

TRANSFORMING LIVES

TRANSFORMING LIVES

CIRCLE OF

INFLUENCE

CIRCLE OF

CONCERN

GLOBAL COMPETITION

ECONOMIC RECESSION

VALUES

VISION

BELIEFS

ATTITUDES

ASSUMPTIONS

-VE ENERGY REDUCES THE CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE

TRANSFORMING LIVES

CIRCLE OF

INFLUENCE

STARTING FROM INSIDE OUT

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Fragmentary Success at the Cost

of HVE

GrM SaK

RG

Krk

Ls

VICIOUS CIRCLE

GrM-Grabbing Motivation, SaK-Sakam Karma, RG-Rajo Guna,

KrK-Krishna Karma, Ls-Lower Self

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Holistic Excellence with HVE

Gil NK

SG

Shk

HS

VIRTUOUS CIRCLE

Gil-Giving Inspiration, NK-Nishkam Karma, SG-Sattwa Guna,

ShK-Shukla Karma, HS-Higher SELF

CONSIOUSNES

EMOTIONAL

BEHAVIOURAL

INTELLECTUAL

FOUR LEVELS OF CHANGE PROCESS

SPIRITUAL

FEELING

THINKING

ACTION

TRANSFORMING LIVES

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Wholly Owned By Cooperatives

IFFCO

Of the People

Of the Nation

Thank You

Of the Farmer

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