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- Title
Convergence of Western and Eastern Perspectives into Spirituo-Humanistic Leadership.
- Authors
Sharma, Radha R.; Pardasani, Rupali
- Abstract
Leadership is one of the most researched field largely from Western perspective lacking cultural perspective. Various paradigms such as rationalistic, spiritual and holistic have been adopted but there exists a gap regarding humanistic paradigm. The paper presents convergence of Western and Eastern perspectives adopting humanistic paradigm with spiritual underpinnings from the Indian context. Humanistic paradigm focuses on human needs and is oriented to the development of human virtue, in all its forms and to optimum extent to protect human dignity and wellbeing of people at large. It presents a case study of Swami Vivekanand, a philosopher, a social reformer and a humanistic leader from India who gave six major principles which can be referred to as six pillars of 'humanistic leadership' based on spiritual foundation viz., advaita vedanta, spiritual democracy, spiritual theism, the concept of truth, unity of action and words and altruism. His thoughts and principles had appeal not only in India but also internationally as he presented spiritual traditions of India to the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 to develop better understanding between the East and the West with his modern outlook, scientific temper and pragmatic approach.
- Subjects
LEADERSHIP; PARADIGMS (Social sciences); VIVEKANAND, Swami; ADVAITA (Vedanta); ALTRUISM
- Publication
3D: IBA Journal of Management & Leadership, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
2230-7524
- Publication type
Article