Indian Worldview and its Implications for Management Scholarship and Practices

Abstract

Worldview is the philosophical outlook that a person, knowingly or not, utilizes to organize his or her belief system and activities. A worldview comprises of culturally organized and inter-related macro thoughts that organize much of the body of symbolic creations and ethnophilosophy among many other epistemic and ontological stances. This article is aimed at deciphering the Indian worldview by elaborating the nature of human self, goals of human life and the role of work in the human life subscribed in the Indian traditional wisdom and their theoretical implications on management in general and Management-Spirituality and Religion (MSR) in particular. Indian worldview is replete with spiritual wisdom and the insights about how to bring spirituality or Adhyatma into the practice in day to day affairs of individual or collective life. Hence, MSR is the natural home division for this submission.