| 1. VVI A tool to measure the extent of Vision-
Value alignment
Aligning vision and values to build ethical leadership and build healthy business culture has become important like never before. The paper outlines the development of an Instrument that can measure the extent of vision value alignment, identify their existing leadership style among the four styles described and a module to move towards High Vision and High Values Individual and Organization. The usages of the tool are in Leadership coaching, recruitment, training & development, organizational diagnosis.
2. Aligning Vision - Value for ethical leadership
We live in interesting, and damning, times. Despite the efforts of companies to build ethical cultures, the actions of a few who have traded integrity for profits have cast a shadow on all. Never has it been more important for businesses to talk and walk the talk of what they stand for. Designing and understanding corporate cultures has been an uphill task for leadership and workers alike.
3. Organizational belongingness in the knowledge era
In a rapidly changing Industrial management scenario, the profile of the employee has moved towards that of a 'knowledge worker', chiefly characterized by his/her use of knowledge as tool of production. In this context, the concept of Belongingness must be move beyond that of a mere affiliative need to a tacit feeling element of the individual, which is manifested in his/her behaviour. This study attempts to derive the meaning of Belongingness in the current industrial organizations, the factors, which influence or bring forth the feeling of Belongingness and the supporting environmental factors from the employee perspective.
4. The art of being truly selfish
Over the years having worked with variety of groups and people, it is increasingly becoming evident that many of us fail to understand how to work in our own interest in the real sense. I have tried understanding what prevents us from being able to act in our own interest. One of the main reason for not being able to work in our interest is our in-ability to make the distinction between some of the critical factors of life
5. Discovery - A transformatory learning tool
Discovery is a Values Clarification Transformative Learning Tool aimed to introduce basic human values to a person and to initiate a process of self-enquiry, which takes care of the need to learn to learn. The tool is presented in the form of a game using snake and ladder with hundred parables/stories forming the backbone of the game. The eleven theme-based spirally evolving charts are included to inquire into specific dimensions like team building, creativity, self-esteem, leadership, etc. With exploration as the key methodology, the players are taken through three levels of learning
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