Title: Study of Ramayana and Bhagavad Gita technical and managerial intellects with enlightening lessons

Authors: Saurabh Kumar Srivastava; Medha Srivastava; Anshul Pandey; Ajay Kumar Yadav; Ashwani K. Gupta

Addresses: School of Management Sciences, Varanasi, India; Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, India ' Indian Institute of Management, Bodh Gaya, India ' United Institute of Management, Prayagraj, India ' United Institute of Management, Prayagraj, India ' School of Management Sciences, Varanasi, India

Abstract: Ramayana and Bhagvad Gita are predominantly perennial sources of ancient Indian texts that evolved simultaneously with Indian society. Ramayan contains seven chapters that starts with Baalakand and ends upon Uttarkanda. Similarly, Bhagavad Gita's 18 chapters begin with Visada Yoga and end with Moksha Opadesa Yoga. These scriptures carry lessons based on philosophical, spiritual, managerial, technical, cultural, and moral values. This paper discussed various managerial skills and explored the different management lessons learned from Bhagwat Gita and Ramayana for enhancing managerial effectiveness. This paper explores various aspects of management practice like human values, trust, information technology, leadership, motivation, and moral values extracted from Ramayana and Bhagavad Gita. Further, it identifies the impact of these attributes on managerial knowledge-sharing behaviour. The study establishes the relationship among all four variables and proposes a knowledge sharing-based conceptual model.

Keywords: leadership; motivation; technology usage; managerial effectiveness; managerial knowledge sharing behaviour.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICBM.2022.126147

International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 2022 Vol.27 No.2, pp.208 - 226

Received: 11 Nov 2020
Accepted: 21 Jun 2021
Published online: 13 Oct 2022 *

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