Vivekananda Kendra Academy for Indian Culture, Yoga and Management (VK-AICYAM)

Activities in the areas of Management:
VK-AICYAM undertakes studies to understand, postulate, and disseminate ‘Management – The Practices of Life’ – the application of management principles and skills to navigate and optimize various aspects of day-to-day life such as goals to achieve, time in hand, available human capital, requirement of material resources, and emotions to handle, to achieve a fulfilling result.

There are five quotes on leadership, management, innovation, and governance highlighting the practices from India, global practices, and the future possibilities on which VK-AICYAM works:

• On leadership and governance: The ideal leadership qualities are wisdom, integrity, courage, and empathy. Effective governance requires a balance between authority and compassion. (Arthashastra)
• On prosperity of state: Proactive fiscal policy, clear targets by the leadership, and judicious allocation of resources are required for the prosperity of a state. (Arthashastra)
• On ethics and economic decisions: The ethical considerations should lay an important role during economic decisions. (Swami Vivekananda)
• On General Management: The role of every general manager is to lay a foundation for future growth. To that end, managers need to understand disruptive innovation, the threat it poses, and how to lead their teams and organizations to create growth that can keep pace with ever-evolving technologies, industries, and customers. (Clayton Christensen, the author of Innovator’s Dilemma)
• On Business Management: It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a western beginning in business management will have to have an Indian ending, when the world adopts rich thoughts of Indian ethos and wisdom, if it is not, to end in the self-destruction of the human race. (Arnold Toynbee, Historian and Nobel Laureate)

There is a need to study deep on the multi-dimensional consequences of the modern management system – modeled to pursue high standards of living, consumerism, and economic growth. This unbridled pursuit of ‘having more’ potentially developing an unforeseen tidal wave of social disintegration and moral disorientation.

We need to develop approaches where human values take a front seat while charting a sustainable growth. Human values refer to spiritual, ethical and moral values. These values act as the base for thoughts, actions, skills, and behaviour. These values create a good person, a good manager and a good organization. They set good examples in society. As Swami Vivekananda said “I care only for the spirit – when that is right everything will be righted by itself.” Spiritual development is an essential part of integral human development where mind precedes material and ethics precedes economics.  Most likely, the solution lies in building a sound value system as preached by Indian tradition of holistic living based on the vision of oneness. The management scholars across the globe are reading and referring to Vedas, Upanishads and the Bhagvad Gita for getting answers to the challenges pervading the society, which the current management practices struggle to address.

Ancient Indian scriptures such as Vedanta, Bhagavad Gita, and Kautilya’s Artha Shastra, have global perspective and relevance. Apart from philosophy and spirituality, these scriptures deal with topics like leadership, team building, motivation, emotional intelligence, mind management, organizational skills, administration and strategic approaches to management, which will be useful to modern business leaders and managers in managing their businesses as well as their social life.

The Kendra, at VK-AICYAM, Bhubaneswar, focuses on the doctrines and ideas from these ancient Indian scriptures as well as other global management practices, which are relevant to global mindset development with specific reference to business leadership and organisational management. VK-AICYAM attempts to connect these concepts and ideologies with contemporary management principles and practices for sustainable management of the organisations with focus on perpetual improvements towards personal effectiveness team level throughputs.

Broad Objectives:

• To study the contemporary management techniques and the affinity analysis with respect to Indian cultural and ethical practices.
• To study management practices and establish relevance, if any, based on Indian scriptures.
• To bring ethics and social harmony into business management.
• To organise seminars and symposiums on the important management ideas, concepts, and doctrines enshrined in our ancient scriptures to enrich the modern management practices.
• To organise and conduct courses for professionals and youths on Holistic Management.
• To develop VK-AICYAM as a Centre of Excellence.

Planned Activities:

• Seminars, Workshops, Events, and Guest Lectures
• Research, Documentation, and Publications
• Student Internship and Report of Internship Output
• Fellowships
• Community Leadership Awards
• MOU with institutions to foster common objectives through field study, research, and report
• Any other activities in line with the broad objectives of the VK-AICYAM may be considered

For details, please contact:
Vivekananda Kendra Academy for Indian Culture, Yoga, and Management (VK-AICYAM)
Plot No. 1561(P), Khandagiri-Pokhariput Road, Jagamara, Bhubaneswar – 751030, Odisha
Email: [email protected]
Mobile:
+91 9937730414 (Shree Laxminarayan Panigrahy)
+91 9438506305 (Shree Ravi Naidu)
+91 9223586912 (Dr. Santosh Mohanty)