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Management Techniques and
Anekāntavāda Approach
Dr. Nilesh N. Dalal
I wish to emphasise that Anekānta is in the nature of things. Hence the correct approach in trying to understand things and in dealing with them would be the Anekānta approach or attitude.
My endeavour should be to focus on how the Anekāntavāda approach runs through the various policies 'decisions' and techniques employed by successful managers
Manager performs certain important functions like Planning, Organising, Leadership and Control. Whether an organisation makes significant achievements or not depends largely upon the planning done on its behalf by the Managers at different levels, but more significantly by the top Managers. Goals have to be set and objectives have to be stated so that the organisation can make along a path to achieve the same and progress.
Unless and until, the managers take into consideration innumerable condition that go into the success of an organisation, the planning of an organisation is bound to suffer. Hence, the single most important quality of a good management is an approach as broad as possible. Wider the approach, better the chances for the Management to succeed and the organisation to prosper.
Organising the second important function management employees bringing together the various departments into a coherent whole. This appears to be antagonistic to the anekantic approach, but actually it is not. For from being antagonistic, it presupposes the
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