more on "religion @ workplace"

[Guest guest]

Dear members,

 

After re-reading the cover-story article in 'Business

Week' on Religion at Workplace in Corporate America

(which adiyen posted y/day for your kind information

and comments) a lot of thoughts went through adiyen's

mind. I am sharing a few with you all, if you don't

mind :

 

(1) Now that religion and spirituality are being

welcomed back at workplace the old credo that "Work is

religion" can be safely supplemented by another

corrollary: "Religion is work".

 

(2)Now that it is fashionable in Corporate America to

bring spirituality into workplace, Corporate India too

will probably soon follow suit (since what is 'best

business practice' for Corporate America is 'best

business practice' for Corporate India too!).

 

(3) I suppose corporate employers in India now will

not shy away from sponsoring religious and spiritual

pursuits. They will now do it with same good

liberality and PR-consciousness with which they are

presently promoting or sponsorsing music, art and

culture. (Good news for mutts, ashrams and temple

administrators!). We can soon expect, for example,

"ITC-Vidvat sadas" just as today we know "ITC-Sangeet

sammelan" is a premier event in corporate-cultural

circles in India. On ZEE-TV alongwith with popular

programs like "TVS-Sa-re-ga-ma" we can also perhaps

soon expect "TVS-veda-parAyaNam".

 

(4) In Company Annual General Meetings in India we can

probably hope Chairman's "Statement to Shareholders"

to now include proud declarations such as: "Your

Company places great emphasis on continuous upgrading

of its human resources. During the year the Company

conducted training programs for its employees in areas

such as TQM (Total Quality Management), Business

Process Re-Engineering, "Emerging trends in global

E-commerce" and, for senior management personnel, a

specially designed Advanced course on "Ramanuja's

VisishtAdvaita and Srategic Business Planning".

 

(5) We can probably next expect Human Resource

Managers in India, searching for jobs, to soon begin

flaunting on their CVs something like this: "I did

Post-Graduate Diploma in "Advanced Advaita and

Attitudinal Change in Corporate Context (AAA-CCC)"

from the premier "Institute of Vedantic Managers" in

Uttara-Gangotri.

 

(6) We can also probably expect Indian corporates, as

part of their personnel policy, to sponsor employees

going on spiritual "yAtrA-s" to SriRangam,

NaimishAranyam, Kasi, Mecca, Medina and the Vatican...

 

 

The above are some of adiyens expectations. I request

other members to give their own views... of course all

in lighter vein and good humour only!

 

dAsan,

Sampathkumaran

 

 

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