Programme Overview

This Management Development Programme explores practical insights from Indian knowledge traditions, particularly the philosophy of Karmayoga, the Arthashastra and the Mahabharata, to strengthen judgment, responsibility, and conduct in organisational life.

Karmayoga frames work as disciplined action grounded in duty, self-regulation, and service orientation. The Arthashastra provides a framework for leading through governance, role clarity, accountability, institutional discipline, and the ethics of authority. The Mahabharata offers a repertoire of dilemmas relevant to organisational contexts, including loyalty, compromise, and moral courage under complexity. Together, these traditions are integrated through workplace spirituality, linking disciplined action, ethical authority, and judgement to meaning, values-alignment, and community in everyday organisational life.

Over the two-and-a-half-day programme, participants will translate these concepts into practice of leading through decision making, people management, ethical judgement, and resilience. The programme concludes with a personal charter and a 30–60–90 day plan to support application in participants’ professional contexts.

Programme Objective

Participants will be able to:

  1. Apply Karmayoga to daily work: duty orientation, equanimity under pressure and seeking spiritual freedom by unselfish actions.
  2. Understand workplace spirituality as meaning of work, overcoming insecurity, values-alignment, and community (without religious prescription).
  3. Use the Mahabharata and the Arthashastra caselets to analyse adaptability, performance, emotional intelligence, diplomacy, self-interest, and moral choice in organisations.
  4. Build personal routines for steadiness: attention, reflection, emotional regulation, and habit design.
  5. Create a practical personal charter and 30–60–90 day implementation plan, forming the foundation for the guided Karmayoga experiential project.
Key Topics
  • Karmayoga in Practice: disciplined action, non-attachment to outcomes, and steadiness under uncertainty
  • Workplace Spirituality (Indian lens): meaning, values-alignment, compassion, and community in organisational life
  • The Arthashastra lens for Managing People: accountability, fairness, institutional discipline, and the ethics of authority
  • The Mahabharata as a Casebook: adaptability, mentoring, performance, persuasion, loyalty, and moral courage in complex situations
  • Dharma, Seva and Stewardship: duty, role-ethics, building reliable coordination, mutual obligation, and trust-based execution
Programme Directors
Professor Rajashik Roy Choudhury

Professor Rajashik Roy Choudhury

Human Resource Management

Professor Randhir Kumar

Professor Randhir Kumar

Human Resource Management

Who May Attend
  • Senior and mid-level managers, functional heads, and project leaders
  • HR/L&D leaders designing values-based systems
  • Public-sector and PSU leaders working in complex stakeholder environments
  • Professionals navigating high-pressure roles where ethics, people, and performance intersect
Programme Duration and Delivery
  • From the morning of November 30, 2026 till the afternoon of December 02, 2026
  • Face to face - classroom based
Pedagogy
  • Interactive lectures (concept + workplace translation)
  • Case discussions and short epics-based caselets
  • Structured reflection (guided worksheets + peer dialogue)
  • Personal action planning and peer deliberation
  • Pre-work will be shared in advance, including tests and reflection prompts
How to Apply
  • You can apply/nominate your personnel by clicking on the “Apply Now” link corresponding to the particular MDP, as appearing on our online calendar available at: https://iimcal.ac.in/mdp/mdp-calendar
  • Once the candidature(s) is (are) approved, the sponsoring authority or participant (in case of self-nomination) will be intimated over email along with a Proforma Invoice seeking programme fees in advance.
  • Programme fees can be remitted online through Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT/RTGS).
  • Upon remitting the fees online, kindly intimate Executive Education Office with the UTRNo. /relevant transaction details through email, so that we can connect your remittance to your nomination(s). Please note that confirmation of participation is subject to receipt of Programme fees by CMDP Office before commencement of the MDP.

For further assistance, please connect with:

Name: Ms. Payel Majumder
Number: +91 33 7121 6012
Email ID: program_mdp[at]iimcal[dot]ac[dot]in

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