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Need to think of new avenues for better governance stressed

PUDUCHERRY: The Pondicherry University Vice-Chancellor, J.A.K. Tareen, has stressed the need for change – in thinking and in organisational governance which has become materialistic and gain-oriented.

“The workshop is centred on spirituality and ethics in relation to organisation and its development. There are reasons for all of us to think of new avenues to have better governance, organisational development and better living. Obviously, one of the means to look at improving organisational development is integration and spiritual channel,” he noted, while speaking at the inauguration of the International Research Workshop on Spiritual and Ethical Foundations of Organisational Development on Thursday.

Raising questions whether spirituality was religion-centric or related to faith, he said, “Invasions — our materialism, globalisation, money and want of greater comforts — and their availability today has posed greater challenges.”

He said spirituality had become “a sort of practice of the upper strata of the society.” “Ninety-five per cent of people in the country do not have privileges. Why is there no percolation below? Spirituality and change in society has to come like a storm. We need to have introspection of incorporating spirituality in our governance,” he added.

The workshop would have academicians and experts discuss applied ethics, its role in social, organisational and national context. Topics such as spiritual foundations of organisational development, role of ethics in economic development and moral business cultures would be deliberated.

Among others, Dean, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, J.K. Mitra; Aurobindoian Manoj Das; Founder of Management Centre for Human Values, Indian Institute of Management-Kolkata S.K. Chakraborty and workshop convener Sunita Singh Sengupta, spoke.

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