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Syllabus for a Value-based Management Course

A syllabus for a certificate course on value-based management, by Swami Bodhananda, 1996

1. God, world and you.

2. Ethics, law and business management

3. Consumption, discipline and work

4. Four Purusharthas and hierarchy of human needs

5. Guna analysis and personality types - as a guide to tracing placement and peer building

6. Four stages of life, and living in total freedom and with detached activity

7. 'You are That' - creating self-confidence and helping to discover self-worth

8. Techniques of self-development

9. Moral dilemmas, eternal values and contextual decision making skills

10. Concentration, contemplation, meditation, efficiency and effectiveness

11. Creativity, relaxation and Yoga

12. Wealth, health and happiness

13. Organization, work culture and total vision - concept of 'Visvarupa'.

14. Secret of success - quality of living and structure of living

15. Leader, Entrepreneur and Manager

16. Tradition and spirituality as a source of management insight and wisdom - interpretational skills

17. Communicational and motivational techniques in Indian tradition - Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchatantra, Hitopadesa and Jataka tales

18. Success and failure

19. Attitudes and vision

20. Need for value based management in the emerging global order-productivity and organizational competitiveness

21. The Sthitaprajna concept of the Bhagavad Gita and the concept of the 'ideal person'

22. Bureaucratic control, corruption and problems of development

23. Societal obligations of business

24. Need for inter-religious, transcultural values, consensus building skills.

25. Duty towards the nation and organisation

Thought for today

Seeing things as they are is freedom.

— Swami Bodhananda  ·  More reflections