Indian Managers and Organizations

Culture is critical to individuals and organizations. This book offers an in-depth exploration of how Indian managers work, examining their inner struggles and the forces that influence their behavior in contemporary corporate environments.

The book presents an original framework developed by the author – the Existential Universe Mapper (EUM) – a pluralistic and non-reductionist model of management that employs a novel psychometric instrument to map individual and organizational identity. The model refrains from placing any phenomenon into frozen categories and enables an understanding of their interplay. It highlights India's ambivalent relationship with modernity and the resulting challenges Indian managers face in embracing corporate imperatives largely rooted in Anglo-Saxon frameworks.

This revised second edition – which incorporates contemporary data and links it to significant developments in the world – will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in business management, human resource management, leadership studies, corporate governance, psychology and sociology. It offers valuable insights for educators, consultants, management practitioners and corporate leaders navigating the complexities of organizational culture in the Indian context.