A large number of business & industrial enterprises, in India & abroad tend to disregard the importance of ethical & moral values which effects the quality of work – life in an organization.
The educated & cultured person appears to have accepted & quite often redefine it as “success”.
In today’s world cheating is considered a necessary condition for winning.
‘Result- Orientation' is often used as a justification for unethical & amoral practices.
Human happiness is one of the ultimate objectives for which a business exists.
Although economies in the world have achieved material progress during the last hundred years, but still are unable to achieve this target of human happiness i.e why business schools in U.S have started educating “BUSINESS ETHICS” a subject.
Irrespective of religious diversity, there exist a remarkable degree of agreement about values like Honesty, Integrity, Comparison, Tolerance & Selflessness.
People at various levels within the organization derive inspiration at the workplace if they perceive such qualities in their leaders.
IPCL, which came into being in 1969 is today the established leader in the field of petrochemicals in the country, with its workforce of about 12,000.
IPCL believed that people are central to the organization & had given rise to philosophy where the development of people becomes an end in itself.
This philosophy has led to include employee as a whole & not confine ourselves to the development of management power only.
IPCL therefore has been exercising subordinate self interest to organizational interest.
In IPCL a diagnostic survey was conducted by professional institutions in the field, such as Tata Management Training Centre, Administrative Staff College of India and Human & Natural Resources research society , covering all levels of employees.
After the survey IPCL has arranged one workshop for employees on Value System and Mind – Stilling Program.
Middle and Senior management personnel in six groups attended this programme. For each of the six groups the programme was conducted in the three modules of three half days each.
This made a total of fifty – four half days. The content included - theories of leadership, motivation and team- building, developed for a Indian setting and based on the values ingrained in the Indian psyche.
Practical mind- stilling exercise also formed a part of the programme.
However afterwards when the response was collected it was seen that this workshop proved to be effective for the participants.
