ABSTRACT
The first effort to communicate to the academic fraternity the launching of Spandan as a foundation for the propagation and inculcation of human values in management and management education took place in 2002. Human values anchored to the mission statement of the given organization, enveloping in its ambit: selection, appraisal, training and development, and the organization's culture and commitment. This chapter outlines the manager's role as a karma yogi, a concept emanating from the Indian philosophical treatise the Bhagavad Gita. It was suggested that a manager assuming the role of a karma yogi is an extension of the management credo of adherence to Transformational Human Values like faith in the basic goodness, innate divinity and intrinsic altruism of human beings. Material comforts and happiness are thus included in the Spandan Spectrum of Human Values as the two Terminal Human Values.
