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Vipassana Meditation: An Effective Way to Enhance Employee Contribution in Fostering Organizational Growth

In: Achieving $5 Trillion Economy of India

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  • Seema Pradhan

    (Fortis Hospitals)

Abstract

Very rapid and transforming changes are happening in all fields, thanks to the digital revolution in technology. This has created worldwide challenges as well as opportunities. However, in addition to technical knowledge and efficiency, psychological qualities like well-being, interpersonal skills, self-confidence, remain critically important. This empirical study attempts to measure the effect on employees’ behavior, personality and psychological well-being by using Vipassana meditation as an intervention. For this purpose, 240 meditator and non-meditator employees were administered an instrument comprising of a psychological well-being scale and a specially designed behavior measure scale to study how mindfulness intervention affects personality and behavior. The data was analyzed using SPSS Ver. 20.0. The results indicated higher values for meditator employees on nine measures of behavior, personality and well-being. These scores indicated that they enjoyed higher self-confidence, interpersonal skills, equanimity, empathy, engagement and growth leading to better work ethic, teamwork and growth. It was not possible to adopt a “Before and After” study design due to the limitation of time available for completion of the study. The behavioral and personality changes that take place due to VM practice are subjective. In the future, it will be interesting to study these subjective changes in meditators by using a long-term study spanning over a few years.

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  • Seema Pradhan, 2022. "Vipassana Meditation: An Effective Way to Enhance Employee Contribution in Fostering Organizational Growth," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Arti Chandani & Rajiv Divekar & J. K. Nayak (ed.), Achieving $5 Trillion Economy of India, pages 365-382, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-981-16-7818-9_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-7818-9_19
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