Transforming Human Values into Behavioural Competencies with Reference to Swami Vivekananda's KarmaYoga

Nowadays, the corporate learning and development arenas are introspecting through the folios of ancient texts in order to gain some insights on knowledge that is contextual to meet their business or corporate requirements. Accordingly, they are also putting more pressure on the B-Schools to produce qualitative human resource which is not only good at their operational abilities but also with refined human qualities. Accordingly, this study focuses more on the human virtues incorporated in Karmayoga in which Vivekananda opines “Man making should be the goal of education but not machine making”. Parallel to this thought, the authors of this paper have also supported the human virtues of Karmayoga through the accepted psychological theories. In continuation, the behavioural competencies have been aligned with the human virtues so that these qualities accurately fit into the corporate requirements. The paper also suggests some of the training dimensions through which the inferred behavioural competencies can be nourished among the budding professionals and such trained youngsters can not only be effective in the job role but they also learn to celebrate the joy of every moment of their work.