The Role of Yoga in Enhancing Individual Congruence For Optimal Organizational Efficiency

Abstract

Over the last two decades research in Organizational Behaviour to optimize potential in employees has led to understanding various new concepts and theories that lie behind this. In this ongoing endeavor, constant inputs from various interdisciplinary fields has lead to understanding the nuances of organizational behavior. Unfortunately very little work has been done to explain this behaviour from an indigenous angle. The philosophy of Yoga, which emphasizes union,can be utilized and adapted to an organizational setting. This term union means various things but for our purposes we can take the concept of “individual congruence†that helps an employee in his attitude and relationship with himself, in groups and the organization. Yoga is a holistic term which accommodates many of the concepts already mentioned and helps in the merging of the subject with the object.