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## Purpose To identify the characteristic features of humanistic leadership in the Tata group in India, and to explicate the key facilitating factors. ## Design/methodology/approach Narrative case-study inquiry via semi-structured interviews with top management leaders and middle managers, and secondary sources of information. ## Findings The top leaders of the Tata companies emphasised the following values and leadership experience: (1) Adherence to the founder's philosophy and the basic core values, (2) Leadership with Trust, (3) Community as the key purpose of the enterprise, (4) Senior leaders as mentors and role-models, (5) Abiding by the ethical code of conduct, (6) Employee-focus and (7) Tacit alignment with Indian cultural values. These resonated with the humanistic leadership tenets. Based on the literature the authors also identified that in Tata leadership, there is an amalgamation of personal values (humata, hukhta, hvarshta: good thought, word and deed) and national cultural ethos (dharma, karma and jnana: emphasis on duty-bound action and knowledge). These leadership values are conveyed and institutionalised in the organisation via strategic initiatives such as the Ta
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- Author
- Tripathi, Ritu; Kumar, Abhishek
- Publisher
- Emerald (MCB UP ); Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.; Emerald (ISSN 2059-5794)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)