Management through Higher Consciousness

In India, a few decades ago there were quite a number of managers. The managers were autocrats or despotic tyrants and the so-called managed employees were reduced almost to slavery. The only principal of management was to extract maximum work, paying minimum wages and also keeping hanging sword of dismissal. This we can call “management by exploitation”. As a reaction to this, there came rules and regulations to protect the employees, union were formed and legally recognized. The result was other extreme – under utmost job-security, minimum work and, through the pressure of unions, maximum salary. This we can term “management through conflicting forces”. Both these managements are positively bad, as in both a mean; egoistic, selfish consciousness is at work.

My?conception of management is “management through higher consciousness” wherein prevails love and not hatred, good will and not ill will, sympathy and not antipathy, concord and not discord, cooperation and not non-cooperation, selflessness and not selfishness, loving understanding and not misunderstanding. The result would be liberal wages, extra money for extra work, and say of the employees in the management. The employees too would put their best with a happy sincerity. In technical term, MBO (Management by Objectives) explains the management style exactly. Thus exploitation on either part could be abolished and a reasonably satisfactory balance struck between the two extremities.