[NondualitySalon] Ethics in corporations

[Guest guest]

> Harsha (Dr. Harsh K. Luthar) wrote:

>

> Hello everyone. Next semester, I am teaching a course in

> business ethics to MBA students. I just finished reviewing

> some texts and made a couple of book selections. Is anyone

> aware of a course in business or corporate ethics, where

> some selection of eastern writings or philosophy might

> have been used? Just curious. If anyone has some thoughts

> or suggestions, feel free to pass them on. Thanks.

>

> Harsha

 

Welcome back, Harsha. What I'm thinking about is not books

as much as an approach. How can the student inspire any

confidence in the ethics he or she sets forth -- and each

student has to set forth his or her own ethics, whether to

themselves or to principles, shareholders, employees --

unless the source or ground of that ethical knowledge is

identified and communed with? Is part of such a course the

identification and enrichment of that ground?

 

just some questions and thoughts...

 

Jerry

[Guest guest]

Greetings Harsha:

 

A typical Business School Course Outline may not reveal whether Eastern

philosophical ideas have played a significant role. But any professor of

business management with substantial interest in Eastern

philosophy is likely to inject such ideas during the actual lectures. This is

not only true in Management Education but also in pure sciences such as physics.

Since your posting indicates that you are

likely to inject such ideas and there is nothing in doing that. You are not

alone in this venture. I want to suggest you the following book by Gandhiji

whcih could be quite useful. Gita formally and

informally discusses the role of ethics in human all human activities.

 

Regards,

 

Ram

 

"Letters on the Gita, " by Mahathma Gandhi.

 

Letters on the Gita was written by Mahatma Gandhi while he was serving a short

prison term. He had just finished translating the Bhagavad Gita into his native

Gujarat, and someone wrote him a letter asking

for explanation of an ethical question in the Gita. He answered that questioner

with a letter, and then another. Eventually, over the course of the next few

months, he wrote a letter each for all twelve

chapters. The result was a short complete book in which Gandhi retells in his

own words the Gita story, following each chapter with his explication of the

ethical issues involved -- India's greatest saint

gives his interpretation of India's most beloved writing. This is not a

translation; Gandhi was a prolific journalist who wrote accomplished prose in

English.

 

--

Ram Chandran

Burke, VA