| SMART JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STUDIES |
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PAPER 2 |
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MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES IN ACTION – BIBLICAL INTERFACE |
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| Elsy PA* and Gabriel Simon Thattil** |
| * UGC Research Fellow, Institute of Management in Kerala, University of Kerala, India |
| ** Reader in Commerce, University of Kerala, India |
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| Bible is part of the Christian scriptures and it is included among spiritual writings. As the Vedas, the Upanishad, the Koran and so on, deal with spiritual salvation and truth, the Bible also is concerned with the same. Management focuses on human efforts to get best results through value oriented leadership and integrity in operations. There is thus a close association between the two. The scriptures talk about human values and management puts across certain principles through which these core values can be translated into action. The spiritual context is not something totally separated from the world of matter, though distinct from it. Therefore, it is possible as well as truly meaningful to find certain basic values which govern human life in the pages of the scriptures and in turn they could be used to evolve certain managerial principles. In this Paper we attempt to re-read miracles performed by Jesus from the management perspective. It is interesting to note that some of the principles in management, which Management Gurus have advocated, can be seen applied in the miracle narratives. These facts obviously indicate the existence of practical wisdom on how to manage in a context, long before the discipline of management developed in its present form. |
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