About the Course

Enterprise Management based on Vedic Psychology 

A Level 2 Workshop by Siddhanta Knowledge Foundation 

This is a 5-session workshop on Vedic Understanding of Enterprise Management  – how to analyse organizations and their management from the first principles of Vedic psychology.

• Duration: 5 x 1.5hrs
• Delivery mode: Video recordings of live online sessions
• Instructor: Sai Ramakrishna Susarla 

Learning Objectives 

• Unravel issues that arise in managing enterprises from first principles
• Evaluate maturity of an organization
• Learn how to make an organization successful and sustainable from within.

Audience

• Mid to senior management professionals 
• Entrepreneurs
• Management Academics

Prerequisites 

• Attended the Introductory workshop on Anubhuti Tantram (level 1)
• Studied the research paper on Anubhuti Tantram 

Syllabus

Session 1

• Purpose of this workshop 
• Individual vs. Organisational motives. Can they both be addressed together? Are they inherently at loggerheads?
• First principles thinking in enterprise management 
• What a living being means
• Signs of life: self-identity, self-experience, ability to act voluntarily
• Defining an organization
• Organisation in terms of koshas

Session 2

• Why do organisms interact?
• What is the meaning of human relations? Why we yearn for relations
• Inclusion vs. Transaction relations
• Organism as a praana cloud
• Organisation-employee relation

Session 3

• The psychology of human relations
• Organisms as praana clouds 
• The meaning and mechanics of love
• Awakening Organisational Consciousness in employees
• Extending the circle of self: thru biology, thru sacrifice and thru group activities
• Expansion is delight, contraction is distress
• AT meaning of being judgemental 
• How judgement hinders growth

Session 4

• Why people work
• Why people form organizations, join or leave organizations 
• The three fields of growth or expansion of self
• Levels of Prabhaava, which is the purpose of work
• Understanding the conflicting pulls of koshas
• Varnas = the types of work, matching org roles to affinity
• Self-serving vs. happy organization
• Need for fluidity in organizations

Session 5

• Vedic scale of organizational maturity
• Defining an organization’s identity, purpose, success and relation with stakeholders
• Self-serving and happy orgs
• Meaning of manomaya-awakened org
• Why most mergers fail
• Meaning of org culture, conduct 
• What is a Conscious org? Indian biz clusters
• What success means for various org types
• How to take an org to higher maturity
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs from AT lens
• How Narendra Modi ji motivated bureaucrats: awakening manomaya kosha