A Cross-Cultural Approach in Coaching as Viewed Through the Guru–Śiṣya Paramparā

Chatwani, Neha

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“…(3) Gurutva means heaviness, office of the guru, and concerns with the expectations with regard to coping with authority and hierarchy, and means to acquire the necessary "gurutva" to execute efficient leadership. As covered earlier, the reliance on the authority of a guru goes back to the guru-shishya-parampara (teacher-learner-tradition) of teaching and learning (Chatwani, 2015). Traditionally the guru (the word means both "teacher" and "heavy") gets the gurutva ("heaviness", "authority"), which credits her/him with the inherent right to teach, share, coach, mentor, tutor, and finally, evaluate and judgeall key responsible areas (KRA's) belonging to today's exemplary people managers and leaders, operating in standardised review meeting templates and evaluation cycles.…”

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Understanding cultural singularities of ‘Indianness’ in an intercultural business setting

Laleman¹,

Pereira

Malik

2015

Culture and Organization

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Analysing data from the Indian Information Technology (IT) industry, this paper advances an understanding of cultural singularities of 'Indianness'. The research context of an intercultural meeting place of IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) firms' overseas subsidiaries, Belgium in this case, allows the authors to identify ten cultural singularities that typify 'Indianness'. This ethnographic, reflexive study is further validated by employing Ghoshal's 'smell of the place' metaphor through the authors collective experiences as consultants and researchers, and builds and extends upon the popular cultural dimension frameworks for understanding intercultural business and management. Existing cultural dimensions do not sufficiently describe the contemporary intercultural dynamics that typically take place in workplaces, especially so in offshore and outsourcing environments. A provisional set of parameters for understanding Indian culture, with its relevant impact on business life (customs and manners), business processes, and business deliverables are proposed in this study.

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Section: Business Singularities Of 'Indianness'mentioning

confidence: 99%