Indigenous Voice: The Regressive Effects of Western Models on Organization Structure, Management Practices & Relationship Processes in Indian Organizations

The decades of the nineties for the Indian organization have been both dramatic and traumatic. India has borrowed technology, organization structures and management practices from Japan and many countries of the West. The assumptions of how technology and management practices ought to work are anchored in their respective cultures. The operationalization of the technology and organization structures are through human resources of the organization who are anchored in the socio-cultural as well as organizational structures, roles and processes. This paper “Indigenous Voice: The Regressive Effects of Western Models on Organization Structure, Management Practices and Relationship Processes in Indian Organizations” explores the historical antecedents of the growth of Indian organizations, the processes of borrowings and adoptions of and adaptations to technology and organizational models. It also explores their impact on organization structure, management practices and relationships, the present status of Indian organizations, the images of the donors of technology and organization models as held by the manages and other employees and the internal dynamics and the reality of Indian organizations and its people. The paper then identifies some of the functional and healthy processes of Indian organizations which could revitalize and reenergize these organizations.