ABSTRACT

Culture is critical to individuals and organizations. This book takes a close look into the way Indian managers work, their inner struggles, and forces that shape their behaviour. It presents an original framework developed by the author — the Existential Universe Mapper (EUM), a pluralistic and non-reductionist model of management that uses a new psychometric instrument to map individual and organization identity. The model restrains from placing any phenomenon into frozen categories and enables an understanding of their interplay. The volume points to India’s ambivalent relationship with modernity, and the consequent difficulty of Indian managers in embracing the imperatives of the corporate world that are largely based on Anglo-Saxon frames.

This book will be of interest to those in business management, human resource management, leadership studies, corporate governance, industries, education, social sector, governance, psychology, and sociology. It will be particularly relevant for scholars, educators, consultants, practitioners of management and corporate leaders.

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|12 pages

Evolution of EUM

A personal journey

chapter 3|37 pages

The EUM

Framework and tools

chapter 4|26 pages

Findings from EUM data

chapter 5|14 pages

An uneasy relationship

chapter 6|35 pages

Civilizational codings of Indian managers

chapter 7|28 pages

Leadership polarities and Indian managers

chapter 8|25 pages

Two perspectives

chapter 9|22 pages

Integrating the two perspectives