Ever heard of the term Ethical Management? Is it a classic example of redundancy or a classic example of an oxymoron?
About thirty minutes in conversation, today, with Padmabhushan Professor N S Ramaswamy, former director, IIM-Bangalore, Dewaker and I listened to the great man talk about a wide variety of topics.He spoke about old age, human greed, Management schools, use of pen, spirituality, the day-husbands of Koramangala, his 60 years of married life and a few more topics(besides telling me that I was good looking). For quite sometime I was not sure what he was trying to say or where he was getting. His age, his experience, his achievements and his two receptive listeners obviously made him the incessant talker but for the first few minutes I could not understand why he was switching topics at such a rapid rate until he coined the phrase, "Ethical Management".
The Professor's belief :
Management rules every aspect of life - old age, human greed, Management schools, the use of pen, spirituality, the day-husbands of Koramangala, 60 years of any body's married life - you name it, there is Management and when we say management we're not exactly talking about the knowledge imparted at a Business school. This management is any body's natural ability to Manage.
But the question and the Professor's greatest concern was that, how many of us do Ethical Management?Do we even know what that means or what it takes to be one? Have we ever made it a compulsion for these two words to co-exist? Do we even understand the consequence of separating these two words? Its impact on ones personal life, its impact on a company, its impact on a country, its impact on the world?
I am not writing this blog because I have understood the above(completely or even partially). This phrase is new to me as well.This concept is new to me as well.
But, I am writing this blog because, for the last seven hours, in spite of my limited understanding of this phrase, somewhere, a great awareness has already crept in. What's your take?
Hey ethical management was superb. And also was he calling u chandramukhi :):P
ReplyDeletethe word "ethical management" does sow a seed of thought in my mind..!! very powerful word which sets u thinking about a lot og things done, undone and yet o be done!
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