Women and work!

My conversation with  Gourav Roy  this morning on the brutal and untimely death of Ms. Twinkle Sharma (with some additions) Many Twinkles are abused everyday, some of them are brutally killed! These incidents happen everywhere, with everyone! Our souls are abused everyday, and our inspirations are killed everyday too; isn't it? But who cares! Society is becoming increasingly intolerant. The ‘I’m the (sic) man’ attitude among many has taken a great toll on the humankind. What we’ve become as humans?  Our day mostly starts with intolerance, continues with it through out the day, and ends with it in the night too. At the wash basin we wash our face with one hand and hold the telephone with the other scolding our reports with the choicest abuses, in the public transportation system show manliness at fellow commuters, in the cafeteria look down upon 'that shabby looking Zamato guy' adjacent to us who like us has paid and is sipping her/his cup of coffee (not ours)...

In many B-schools, business ethics (BE) is being introduced as a core course. One needs to analyse the demand side and supply side to find its true relevance for managers. The demand side practitioners emphasize on bottom-line. It's not that they don't prefer ethical decision-making but they just don't know whether the other person is ethical or not. Consequently, the demand side mostly tries to give lip-service to it to cut cost and remain a going concern. The supply side mainly comprises of consultants and B-school faculties who generally try to operationalise BE as CSR or a means to mitigate various (extra) costs like government regulations/interventions, hue and cry by civil society activists, etc., in the events of unethical business practices. Furthermore, who head the CSR projects in organizations; well, they are mostly the superstars with expertise in core functional areas like marketing, finance, and so on. Hence, the bottomline thinking slowl...