Ethical model: Moral class for management students
- Miloni Bhatt, www.ndtv.com | February,8 2008

Ancient Scriptures are increasingly finding resonance in the 21st century. The S P Jain Business school students are applying the principles of Gita to their management studies.

This is an attempt to groom them to be more humane in their approach.

Siddharth Natarajan, a PGDBM student at the school said, "In management you are taught quantitative or analytical skills, but there is another dimension that includes soft skills or emotional intelligence, so how does one develop that? In India the best thing is that you have scriptures that provide that."

Its a reorientation forced by the cut throat global business environment. M L Shrikant, the Dean of SPJIMR said, "There are very serious concerns of a management education that makes managers self centered, arrogant or just simply utilitarian. In our country education has no component of human values. And that's what we have to correct."

In this week long voluntary programme over 300 students focused beyond profit and loss spread sheets to discuss concepts of happiness, success, failure and values to strengthen life.

Corporates are now realising that management cannot be bereft of values and ethics and that managing success or failure is as important as achieving success.

That is life the skill that this programme hopes to imbibe in the students.

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