This document provides an overview of Gandhism and its potential application in corporate settings. It discusses Gandhi's life and background, defines Gandhism as the body of ideas and principles inspired by Gandhi's vision and work. The document outlines some key aspects of Gandhism like trusteeship management, labor relations, dispute resolution, non-violence, civil disobedience. It also discusses Gandhi's views on machinery, economics and their current impact in India. The document examines how certain aspects of Gandhism could be relevant to corporate hierarchy, decision making, and leadership.

1. Gandhism in Corporates
To identify his leadership qualities lets compare
him against the leadership theories in
practice……..

2. Index
 About Gandhi
 Intro- What is Gandhism
 Attributes/Characteristics of Gandhism
 Business Ethics in Corporate Life
 Connect between Law & Gandhism
 Gandhism Applicability in Corporate (Our Findings)
 Conclusion

3. Gandhi-The Lawyer
 Born: 2 October 1869
 Died: 30 January 1948(78 years), New Delhi of India
 Born Place: Probandar, Kathiawar Agency, British India
 Cause of death: Assassination
 Education: University college London
 Known for: Prominent figure of Indian independence movement,
propounding the philosophy of Satyagraha and Ahimsa
advocating non-violence, pacifism
 Religion: Hinduism
 Other Name: Mohandas Karamchand
 The Lawyer: In 1888, Gandhi travelled to London, England, where
he studied law and jurisprudence and enrolled at the Inner Temple
with the intention of becoming a barrister.

4. Gandhism
 Gandhism is a body of ideas and principles that
describes the Inspiration, Vision and the Life work of
Mahatma Gandhi
 Throughout his life, Gandhi sought to develop ways to
fight India's
◦ Extreme poverty
◦ Backwardness
◦ Socio-economic challenges
 It is particularly associated with his contributions to the
idea of non-violent resistance, sometimes also called
civil resistance
 Gandhi's thinking on socia-secular issues was greatly
influenced by the American writer Henry David

5. Gandhian Economics
 School of Economic thought based on Socio-economic
principles expounded by the great leader
◦ Protectionism
◦ Nationalism
◦ Non Violent Humanistic socialism
◦ Rejection of Materialism(Aim)

6. Current Corporate Value System
 Discipline
 Integrity
 Accountability
 Trust Worthy
 Loyalty towards Customers & Stake Holders
 Entrepreneurial Skills
 Profit Motive

7. Connect between Law & Gandhism

8. The Connect with Law
 Trusteeship management
 Labour Management Relations
 Law in Settling Disputes between Individual
 Civil disobedience
 Truth
 Non- Violence
 Gandhi’s View on Machinery

9. Trusteeship
Management
 Trusteeship refers to the act of holding and managing
resources on behalf of the stakeholders of the firm.
 According to Gandhi, Managers and Proprietors of
business firms are only the trustees of wealth of society.
 Though wealth legally belongs of owners of business,
morally belongs to society and community

10. Labour Management Relations
 Gandhi’s ideal is that capital and labour should
supplement and help each other. They should be a great
family living in unity and harmony.
 He declared that a strike is an inherent right of the
working man for the purpose of securing justice, but
they must be considered a crime immediately the
capitalists accepts the principle of arbitration
 If conflict arises between Labor and Management, the
weapon proposed by Gandhiji is Satyagraha

11. Role of Law in Settling Disputes between
Individual
 Gandhi preferred that any dispute between individuals
should be settled on grounds of fairness and justice
rather than by resort to law
 This is not because of inconvenience of resort to law, but
because to settle it bilaterally is manly or human,
whereas taking resource to law is unmanly or non-
human

12. According To Mahatma Gandhi …
 Truth is god
 Nothing is or exists in reality except Truth
 Truth in speech
 Truth in action
Truth

13. Accolade To The Real Heroes
 Vijay Pandhare
 Shanmugam Manjunath

14. Non-Violence
• Nonviolence (from Sanskrit ahimṣā, non-violence, "lack of
desire to harm or kill").
• It comes from the belief that hurting people, animals or the
environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome.
Ways of Non-Violence in Corporate
• Workers going on Strike
• Change of Job
• Protests & Public Communications
“An Eye for an eye only Ends up making the whole World blind”

15. Civil disobedience
 Superior authority of morality over law is clearly seen in
the right to disobey the law.
 Pros – When Government is on the whole just, the
institutions of law courts are healthy and role of lawyers
in this case is to support the system.
 Cons - When Government is on the whole unjust,
immoral and corrupt, then it’s a moral duty of lawyers to
non-cooperate with the system.

16. Gandhiji’s View on Machinery
 According to him, the supreme consideration is Man.
 Machines should not tend to make atrophied the Limbs of
Man.
e.g. Singer Sewing machine was Invented out of Love for his
Wife.
 The Objective behind creating Machines should be Benefit of
Humanity, save human efforts, create Employment and not
simply profit as a Motive.
 If Machinery craze grows in our Country, it will become an
Unhappy Land to live in.

17. Pro’s & Con’s of Gandhi’s view on
Machinery
 Telephone Invention to Whatsapp Addiction.
 Invention of Automobile from comfort is now moved to
necessity.

18. Gandhism in Corporate Hierarchy
 HR Function
 Top Level Management
Decision Making
Leadership Quality
Change Management
Bringing Revolution
Production Methodology (Machinery)
 Becomes Difficult to adapt complete Gandhism in Mid-
Level & Lower Level Management.

19. Conclusion
 Adaptability.

20. Thank you…

21. Traits Examples
Self confidence Salt march- where he marched 388 km to the sea at Dandhi,
Gujarat and make salt for himself
Assertiveness Mahatma Gandhi did the all things in a good and a correct way
and achieved his goal of, independence for India in 1947
Warmth Mahatma Gandhi was good with all religions people and
understand their feelings
Enthusiasm In South Africa’s government came to Gandhi to stop the non-
violence and they demanded many benefits to him but he refused
Get the independence from British for India
Emotionally stable From British government many influence can to stop the
campaign but he was very stable in his goal
Trust worthiness He always walked his talk and if he give a promise he will do it

22. Traits Examples
Extraversion He implemented non-violence 1st in South Africa and the Indians
followed and adapted it as he told
In India when he presented his non-violence the people adapted it
without fail
Humility Stand for the rights to Indians in South Africa and demanding
independence in India from the British emperor.
Mentoring Mahatma Gandhi showed the way to independence for Indians
and took the equal rights for South Africans
According to this Mahatma Gandhi had a good and excellent personal traits within him
so that is the reason the Indians call him as the
“father of the nation”

23. Pros

24. Cons

25. Leadership style
 Mahatma Gandhi practiced servant leadership
These qualities were within Mahatma Gandhi
Servant leadership qualities
Good Listener
Empathy
Healing
Awareness
Persuasion
Conceptualization
Foresight

26. Gandhian economics
 A free India for Gandhi meant the flourishing of thousands of self-
sufficient small communities who rule themselves without
hindering others. Gandhian economics focused on the need for
economic self-sufficiency at the village level. His policy of
"sarvodaya"[198] called for ending poverty through improved
agriculture and small-scale cottage industries in every village.[199]
Gandhi challenged Nehru and the modernizers in the late 1930s
who called for rapid industrialisation on the Soviet model; Gandhi
denounced that as dehumanising and contrary to the needs of the
villages where the great majority of the people lived.[200] After
Gandhi's death Nehru led India to large-scale planning that
emphasised modernisation and heavy industry, while modernising
agriculture through irrigation. Historian Kuruvilla Pandikattu says
"it was Nehru's vision, not Gandhi's, that was eventually preferred
by the Indian State."[201] After Gandhi's death activists inspired by
his vision promoted their opposition to industrialisation through the
teachings of Gandhian economics. According to Gandhi, "Poverty is
the worst form of violence

27. Current impact within India
 India, with its rapid economic modernisation and
urbanisation, has rejected Gandhi's economics but
accepted much of his politics and continues to
revere his memory. Reporter Jim Yardley notes
that, "modern India is hardly a Gandhian nation, if
it ever was one. His vision of a village-dominated
economy was shunted aside during his lifetime as
rural romanticism, and his call for a national ethos
of personal austerity and nonviolence has proved
antithetical to the goals of an aspiring economic
and military power." By contrast Gandhi is "given
full credit for India's political identity as a
tolerant, secular democracy.

28.  I hate two faced people…its so hard to
decide that which face to slap 1st

29. CSR
 All social action should be governed by the same
simple set of moral values, of which the main
elements are selflessness, non-attachment,
nonviolence and active service.
 It will take me too long to define and elaborate his
ideas in respect of each of these; but he believed that
the growth of a mans personality is proportionate to
his faith in and practice of these virtues.
 This is possible only when he identifies himself more
and more with an ever-increasing circle till it
embraces all humanity and even all living beings.
 He judged the value and vitality of social institutions
by their capacity to foster such growth.

30.  Resources must be held and utilised for the benefit of
society.
 In case of industrialist what they produce should be
determine by social necessity with optimal utilization of
scarce resources and not by personal whims.
 If workers are to work with harmony and collaboration with
management then that make workers also co-trustee with
the management.

31. Gandhi’s view on Gandhism
 There is no such thing as "Gandhism," and I do
not want to leave any sect after me.
 I do not claim to have originated any new
principle or doctrine.
 I have simply tried in my own way to apply the
eternal truths to our daily life and problems.
 The opinions I have formed and the conclusions I
have arrived at are not final. I may change them
tomorrow.
 I have nothing new to teach the world.
 Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills

32. Civil disobedience
 Superior authority of morality over law is
clearly seen in the right to disobey the law.
 Pros – When Government is on the whole
just, the institutions of law courts are healthy
and role of lawyers in this case is to support
the system.
 Cons - When Government is on the whole
unjust, immoral and corrupt, then it’s a moral
duty of lawyers to non-cooperate with the
system