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Haridwar

ISOL FOUNDATION

3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
Integrating Spirituality and Organizational Leadership
February 1-5, 2011
Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India

 


In collaboration
With

Department of
Management Studies
IIT, Roorkee

   

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Tuesday February 1, 2011


Inaugural Ceremony
2.30 p.m. – 3.30p.m.

1.

Saraswati Vandana

 

2.

 Welcome by:
  a) Prof. Swatantra Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Gurukula Kangri       Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar  

 

5 Minutes

  b)  Dr. J. L. Raina, Chairman, Board of Governors, ISOL Foundation

10 Minutes

3.

Lighting the Lamp (Gyan Jyoti) by the Dignitaries

5 minutes

4.

Presentation of background paper by Prof. Sunita Singh-Sengupta, Convener ISOL 2011

10 Minutes

5.

Keynote Address by:

Prof Peter Pruzan, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, Visiting Faculty, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prashanti Nilayam, Andhra Pradesh, India

 

30 Minutes

6.

Vote of Thanks by :

Dr. S.P. Singh, Dean & Head, Faculty of Management Studies, Gurukula  Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar

 

5 Minutes

     Tea Break

3.30p.m.-3.45p.m.

Presidential Address by  Prof. S.K. Chakraborty,
Chairman, ISOL Foundation Advisory Committee
3.45p.m. – 4.30p.m.

 

     Tea Break                                                                                             4.30p.m. – 4.45p.m.


Blessing Ceremony
5.00 p.m. - 6.15 p.m.

 

Manglacharan

 

1.

Welcome and Opening Remarks by:
Prof. J.K.Mitra, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi

 

10 minutes

2.

Inaugural Address by :

  1. Shri B.M.Munjal, CMD, Hero Honda Motors
  2. Shri L.N.Jhunjhunwala, Founder Bhilwara Group of Companies & Chairman, IIM Indore

 

 

30 minutes
30 minutes

3.

Keynote Address by:

H.H. Swami Avdheshanand Giri Maharaj, Junadheesh, Juna Akhara, Harhar Ashram, Haridwar.

 

40  minutes

4.

Presidential Address by:
Prof. Mahavir Agarwal, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Gurukula Kangri  Vishwavidyalaya

10 minutes

5.

Vote of Thanks by Prof. V.K.Katiyar & Dr. Rajat Agrawal, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

10 minutes

Cultural Programme Followed by Conference Dinner

6.30 p.m.

TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Ontology and Epistemology of Spirituality
Wednesday February 2, 2011


9.00 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.

 

Presentation of Concept Paper by Prof. Sunita Singh-Sengupta, Convener, ISOL  Foundation

10 Minutes

 

Morning Session-1
9.00 a.m. – 11.15 a.m.

 

Mysticism, Inner Growth and Business Management
Moderator: Prof. R.K.Gupta, MDI, India

 

Erna Oldenboom, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Apollo And The Art Of Healing

 

Miriam Subirana, Director Yesouisi. Barcelona, Spain

The Power Of Our Intuition

 

Sanjay Kujursj, Treasurer & Faculty, Xavier Institute – XIDAS, Jabalpur, M. P. India

Mysticism and  Business Management

 

Interaction

 

Tea Break                                                                                                  

11.15 a.m. 11.30 a.m.

 

Morning Session-2
11.30  a.m. – 1.00 p.m.

 

Spirituality, Leadership & Organizational Transformation
Moderator: Prof. Peter Pruzan, Denmark

 

Michael DeWilde, Director, Business Ethics Center, Seidman College of Business, USA -

Mindfulness Meditation and Conflict:  Helping Leaders  Overcome Defensive Behaviors Through Bare Attention

 

Len Tischler, Professor, Kania School of Management, University of Scranton, USA

Lean, Spirituality, and Physics

 

Interaction

 

Lunch Break                                                                                              

1.00 p.m.-2.00p.m.

 

Afternoon Session-1
2.00 p.m. 3.30p.m.

 

Indian Ethos in Business Management
Moderator:Prof. J.K. Mitra, India

 

Swami Samarpanananda, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, West Bengal, India

Need for Indian Ethos in Business Management

 

Suresh Kalagnanam, Associate Professor, Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Scott Walworth, Associate Professor, Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan Canada

Applying the Four-Stage Lifecycle Model to Human Resource Management

 

Interaction

 

Tea Break                                                                                                   

3.30 p.m. – 3.45 p.m.

Darshan of Ganga Aarti:  Musicals Offering To Mother Ganga at Har Ki Paudi Haridwar

5.00 p.m.

Thursday February 3, 2011

Culture, Traditions and Organizational Leadership

9.00 a.m-11.15 a.m.

Chairperson- Prof. V.K. Katiyar

Rapporteur – K. Jayalakshmamma

Jens Schultzer, CEO and Chairman, Oester Pennehavevej Id, Denmark

Culture, Traditions and Organizational Leadership

Annabel Droussiotis, Associate Professor, Department of Management and MIS, Cyprus

Ensuring Effective Leadership by the Practice of the Laws of Manu

Rattan K. Datta and Meena Datta

Culture and Traditional Norms Leading to Leader ship

Ashoke K. Maitra

A study of Human Resource processes and systems to build Transformational Leaders: A Case Study of Ramakrishna Mission.

Interaction Session   

Tea Break

11. 15 a.m.-11.30 a.m.

Research Paper Presentation
11.30 a.m. – 1.00. p.m.

Concurrent Session – 1 

Chairperson- Suresh Kalagnanam

Rapporteur – Meena Datta

Name of the Presenter

Topic of Presentation

1.

Anita Gupta

Rural Indian Customers’ Perceptions of brands based on Ethics in Advertising

2.

Mojtaba Rafiei &Mohammad Mousavi

Investigating the Effect of Transformational and transactional style on the Effectiveness of Organizational Leadership (A Case Study in an  Iranian organization)

3.

Neha Saxena

Integrating Spirituality and Organizational Leadership

4.

Ajith Sankar R N

Stock Market Returns Of Leading Green Companies Of USA In Comparison With Their Benchmark Indices

5.

Vasudev Das

The Role of Self-control in Organizational Leadership

6.

K. Jayalakshmamma

A Spiritual Leader For Human Capital Development - Mother Teresa


Concurrent Session – 2 

Chairperson- Len Tischler

Rapporteur  - Enrique Reig

Name of the Presenter

Topic of Presentation

1.

Ritu Gupta

Integrating spirituality and leadership to enhance organizational performance

2.

Mohammad-Ali Sarlak, Sayed-Mahdi Viseh & Abd-al-samad Khadamy

Identifying value-based organizations

3.

Raghvendra Kumar Pandey

Culture, Traditions and Organizational   Leadership

4.

Alka Dwivedi

Understanding Effective Leadership: The Spiritual Approach

5.

S. Ram Mohan

Dharma – The value system in Indian heritage

6.

Nanubhai.D.Desai & Trupti Utpal

Design Education

Concurrent Session – 3

Chairperson- Rattan Datta

Rapporteur - Aggi Anand

 

Name of the Presenter

Topic of Presentation

1

Carol A. Christopher

Work as Calling or Duty?  Differences in Motivation and Intention of Christian and Hindu Indian Entrepreneurs

3

Ipshita Bansal & Niharika Bajpai   

Gandhian Model of Integrative Thinking: Lessons for Organizational Leadership

3

Sima Rasouli & Masoud Haghighi

Studying the Effect Of Leadership Methods On Employees Motivation: A Case Study In Shahed University, Iran

4.

Richa Sinha & Satyajeet  Srivastava

Folktales As Corporate Mocktails

5.

Shashank Shah

Proposing an Employee Welfare Framework for Indian Corporate Organisations: A Mixed Method Study

6.

Usha Devi.N, Kamatch,  Sri. Janardhan T.G & Bhargavi.VR

Spiritual Leadership Approach: The Guru Mantra For CEO’s

Lunch   1.00. p.m. – 2.00. p.m.

Value Based Management
2.00 p.m. -3.30 p.m.

Chairperson- Rajat Agrawal

Rapporteur- Jaya Ahuja

Uma Jain, SAHARTH, India

Unrestrained and Unowned Pursuit of Greed: Roots of Ethical breakdowns and Corporate Scams

 Enrique Reig, Univ. de las Americas, Puebla México  & Jauli, I and Cervantes, C Sherpa Consulting Group Mexico               

Leadership Coaching Profile Based on Vivekananda´s Values in Mexican Successful Executives

Len Tischler, Professor, Kania School of Management, University of Scranton, USA

Human Nature Might Be Changing:From Modernized Cavemen To Interconnected, Creative Beings

Interaction Session

Tea Break

                                                                              3.30 p.m – 3.45 p.m.

Visit  to Rishikesh and Laxman Jhula                                       

4.00 p.m.

Friday February 4, 2011
Parallel Thematic Sessions
9.00 a.m. – 11.15 a.m.

Thematic Session1 : Spirituality An Answer to Workplace Misbehaviour

Chairperson- Annabel Droussiotis

Rapporteur – Mayank Agarwal

Ora Setter, Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Israel, Ely Weitz , Faculty of Social Studies,Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv,Israel
Yoav Vardi, Faculty of social studies, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv,Israel

Does Workplace Spirituality Mitigate the Intention Of Employees To Engage In Organizational Misbehavior? An initial Research Agenda

A.V.Rajagopalan,  T.A.Pai Management Institute Manipal & Shri.Shriramvenkatram, Masters In Statistics, University Of Madras, India

Workplace Misbehavior: Revisit to Indian roots for global solutions

Vinay Sharma, Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee

Implementing Sustainability Through Sprituality as a Principle 

Thematic Session 2: Passion, Purpose and Principle

Chairperson- Michael DeWilde

Rapporteur – Miriam Subirana

T.S. Mohanchandralal, Indian Institute Of Planning and Management, Chennai, India.

Situational Analysis (SWOT)-Shri Rama In Valmiki Ramayana-Lessons for Business Leaders

Michael Zirkler, School of Applied Psychology, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

In pursuit of the “real it” in consulting

Sraddhalu Ranade, Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry

Passion, Purpose and Principle

Interaction Session   

Tea Break

11. 15 a.m.-11.30 a.m.



Research Paper Presentations
11.30 a.m. – 1.00. p.m.

Concurrent Session – 1

 

Chairperson- T.S. Mohanchandralal

Rapporteur S.Ram Mohan

Name of the Presenter

Topic of Presentation

1.

Nidhi Jain

Pareto + Spirituality = Enhanced Human Potential

2.

Ipshita Bansal &  Priti Hingorani

Interplay of Spirit and Emotions at Work

3.

Saidatt Senapaty

Spiritual Climate and Customer Service Behaviour among Nursing Professionals

4.

Rangana Ghatak

Towards attaining perfection through Rhythm and Self Consciousness

5.

Uroos Fatima Rizvi & J. R. Jha

Facilitating and Debilitating Factor in Dalit Women Entrepreneurs in Madhya

6.

Nader Boroumand &  Mohammad Hashem Norouz

Spirituality in Organizations 

Lunch

 

Concurrent Session – 2

 

 

Chairperson- Uma Jain

Rapporteur – Neha Saxena

Name of the Presenter

Topic of Presentation

1

Munish Tiwari

A Design Thinker’s Personality

2

Uma Sanjay Singh

Spirituality: A Stress Management Analysis Of The Delhi Based Psu’s Employees.

3

Jaya Ahuja

Measuring Individual Spirituality And Its Impact On Employee Performance

4

Deepshikha Singh

Measuring Spirituality Quotient of the Organizational Leaders

5.

Dharminder Singh Ubha & Jasleen Kaur

Building Ethical Leaders: Lessons from Sri Guru Granth Sahib

6.

Mayank Aggarwal & Jyotirmay Dutta

Inculcating spirituality in tomorrow’s Technocrats

Concurrent Session – 3:

 

Chairperson – Jaya Venugopal

Rapporteur - Carol A. Christopher

 

Name of the Presenter

Topic of Presentation

1.

Uma G Rao

Storytelling as a Leadership Tool to create a value based organization in the Indian Context

2.

Aggi Anand

Practical Vedanta And Organizational Transformation

3.

Gitali Chaudhary

Value-based Leadership: Insights from the Bhagwad Gita

4.

Komal Bharti

Let the Lower Birds Meet the Golden One

5.

 Rajni Kapoor & Tanvi Gupta 

Integrating Spirituality In Management

6.

Sanjay Kumar

Effect Of ‘Anasakti’ On Attributional Styles Of Adult Subjects: A Study Of An Indigenous Concept Of Bhagwat Gita


Interaction Session

Lunch

1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.

Experiential Workshop
On
The Inner Development of Self and Health at Workplace

Resource Persons

  1. Dena Merriam, Founder and Convener, GPIW, USA
  2. Shraddhalu Ranade, Sri Aurobindo Society, India

Saturday February 5, 2011

Spirit Centric Organizational Processes
9.00 a.m. – 11.15 a.m.
Concurrent Session - 1

Chairperson - Jens Schultzer

Rapporteur – Komal Bharti

Walter Baets, Director,Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Value based leadership: the basis for corporate resilience

Ora Setter, Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University,Israel & Tova Averbuch Oganim, Tel Aviv, Israel

Teaching the Spirit: A Study Of Spirituality And Management Programs In Business Schools and Executive Education Centers: Comparison And A Case Study

Scott Taylor, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Leadership Studies, Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter Business School, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4PU, UK

The promise of re-enchantment: Organizational culture and the spirituality at work movement


Interaction Session   


Spirit Centric Organizational Processes
9.00 a.m. – 11.15 a.m.
Concurrent Session - 2

Chairperson - Jens Schultzer

Rapporteur – Komal Bharti

Galit Berenstok &  Ishak Saporta,  Tel-Aviv University, Israel

A Pluralistic View of Rational Decision Making in Organization

 T.S. Mohanchandralal, Indian Institute Of Planning and Management, Chennai, India.

Shri. Rama: A Project Manager Par Excellence -A Study In Valmiki Ramayana

Peter Pruzan,& Shashank Shah,  Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prashanti Nilayam, Andhra Pradesh, India

Integrating Spirituality into the Leadership, Teaching and Research of a University: A Case Study of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

Interaction Session   

 

Tea Break

11. 15 a.m.-11.30 a.m.


Research Paper Presentations
11.30 a.m. – 1.00. p.m.

Concurrent Session – 1

Chairperson- Walter Baets

Rapporteur - Komal Bharti

Name of the Presenter

Topic of Presentation

 

 

 

1.

Santosh Kumar Sharma, Renu Rastogi & Anindya Jayanta Mishra 

Spirituality at Work: Research Issues

 

2.

Kamran Janfeshan, Belal Panahy, Seid-Mehdi Veiseh & Farideh Kamari

Spirituality in Working Environment and Its Impacts on the Efficiency of Management 

3.

K Nagaraja Rao

Exploring the Lives of Religious Characters for Management Education

4.

Priyanka Vaidya

Tagore’s Mysticism and Spiritualism

5.

Malika Huseinali Sayani

A Ray of light:  Spirituality in Secondary Education

6.

Susmita Banerjee

Self consciousness and psychic being

Concurrent Session – 2:

Chairperson- Erna Oldenboom

Rapporteur - Saidatt Senapaty

Name of the Presenter

Topic of Presentation

1.

Ashok Rathore

Spiritual Leadership and Business Growth and Ethics

2.

Iman Sabbagh Molahosseini

On the Relation between Organizational Justice and Workplace Spirituality

3.

Vishwanath V Siddhanti

Spirituality And Project Management

4

Enrique Reig, Isaac Jauli,  Cecilia Cervantes & Justine Tang

Attitudes And Disposition To Social Responsibility Related With Convincement To Contract Workers Older Than 55 Years In Young Mexican Business Executives

5

Jayavenugopal

The Power of Mind : Integrative Thinking

Concurrent Session – 3

Chairperson- Ora Setter

Rapporteur - Nishiganda bhuyan

Name of the Presenter

Topic of Presentation

1.

R D Sharma, & Bodh Raj Sharma,

 

Organizational Excellence and Employee Well Being Through Yoga

2

Bagher Ghobari Bonab & Zohre Moeini

Impact of Spiritual Intelligence Training On Existential Anxiety And Religious Coping in Mashhad Azad University

3

Piyush Mehta

Organizational Culture and Work Ethics

 

4

Ashima Soni

Spiritual Attitudes Towards Suffering

5

Karimoalahi M & Avedi H.A

Self-preservation in Both Sides: A Grounded Theory Study Of Spiritual Care In Iran

Concurrent Session – 4

 

Chairperson- Michael Zirkler

Rapporteur- Nidhi Jain

Name of the Presenter

Topic of Presentation

1

Yousef Mohebzadegan

The Study of Complexity Paradigm in Organizational leadership

2

Sanjay Singh Baghel

Omani Society And Advertising Ethics Of Consumer

3

Meeta Joshi &  Jaydev Joshi

The Corporate Dilemma: Greed V/S Goodness

4

Rudra Bhandari

Yogic Prescription for Corporate Wellness and Excellence

5

K Nagaraja Rao, Kumar Mukul, Kumari Ruchi

Drawing from Spirituality for Better Leadership in Organizations

Concurrent Session – 5

 

Chairperson - Dharminder Singh Ubha

Rapporteur - Jasleen Kaur

Name of the Presenter

Topic of Presentation

1

Munish Tiwari

Integrative Thinking: The View from Cognitive and Social Psychology

2

Nishiganda bhuyan

The new age challenges of social integration of innovation: why we need integrative thinking?

3

Vinod. Kr. Sharma

Integrating Spirituality & Organizational Leadership:
In pursuit of Happiness

4

Aparna Sharma

The Power of Mind; Integrative Thinking

5

Nimesh Varma & Binu Raj

Power of Mind – Integrative thinking Using mind power for individual and organizational development

 

Interaction Session

 

Lunch     

1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.




ISOL AWARD Ceremony
2.00 p.m. – 5.30 p.m.

Manglacharan

Blessing Remarks by :

  1. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji Maharaj, President, Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh, India
  2. Sadhavi Bhagwati, Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh, India

Address by Chief Guest: Shri Sudarshan Sharma, Chancellor, Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar

Address by Dignitaries:

  1. Shri S.N.Sahu, Joint Secretary, Rajya Sabha Secretariat, Parliament of India.
  2. Prof. Peter Pruzan, Professor Emeritus, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark & Visiting Faculty, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prashanti Nilayam, Andhra Pradesh
  1. Dr. Dr Chinmay Pandya, Director, School of Yoga and Health, Dev Sanskriti University, Haridwar 

Distribution of Awards by Shri Sudarshan Sharma, Chancellor, Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar
1.    ISOL Research Award on Spirituality and Leadership
2.   Special Honour to Pujya Swami Ramdevji Maharaj and Acharya Balkrishnaji Maharaj, Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar by            
conferring on them “ISOL Spirit and Entrepreneurship Award” for their enormous and significant contribution to society and   
humanity.

Announcement of International Journal on Spirituality and Organizational Leadership and Release of Background Material  by the Dignitaries

Summing up by Prof. Sunita Singh-Sengupta, Convener, ISOL Foundation, India

Reflections from Participants and Journey Ahead

Vote of Thanks by:

  1. Dr. S.P. Singh, Dean & Head, Faculty of Management Studies, Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar
  2.  Prof. V.K.Katiyar, Department of Mathematics, IIT Roorkee
  3. Dr. Rajat Agrawal, Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee

High Tea


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