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Dec 15, 2015 [MANAGEMENT DIGEST – ISSUE - 29]

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Editorial of the Month

Sound Ethics is Sound Business

Dear Readers,

We have all become ambassadors of Ethics Movement. Business

Ethics Foundation is now five years old. Some of you may have joined

National Conference on Business Ethics on Dec 2 and 3, 2015 at Amity

Global Business School, Pune.

You will be happy to know that 85+ delegates attended the Conference.

I saw that there were VIPs on the stage as well as in the audience. This issue

of Management Digest is devoted to a comprehensive report of the

Conference.

I must mention that Dr. Sneha Sharma, Director of Amity Global

Business School extended all the co-operation. Dr. Rashmi Hebalkar,

Conference Chairperson took great lead in maintaining the quality of

discussions and debates. Dr. Dipti made all out effort to see that all the

speakers & delegates are comfortable. Many members came forward to make

the conference successful. National Conference was an important mile stone

in the journey.

We have lot to do in the years to come….. At present there are five

“Business Ethics Club” in Pune. Two in MIT, one in SNDT, one in Hujurpaga

and one in H.V. Desai College. All the clubs are taking the movement further.

Efforts are on to start new clubs in Kolhapur, Belgaum and Mumbai.

Shri. Narayan Gune and his team is working with zeal and enthusiasm.

Shri. Shriniwas Rairikar is forming his team for April 2016 – 2017.

Through this editorial, I appeal to all the members to find some time and

resources to contribute to Ethics Movement by writing articles, conducting

training programs and talks, conducting research on various facets of „Ethics‟,

spread the message by registering new individual and institutional members.

Do Talk to Shri. Narayan Gune (Mb – 9850537069), Shri. Shriniwas Rairikar

(Mb – 9822204516) about the ways and means by which you can add value to

the Business Ethics Foundation.

All the best….. to …..All of you.

Happy New Year 2016.

Dr. S.G.Bapat

Chief Editor

Mobile :9881468504

([email protected])

mailto:[email protected]



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Event of the Month

Paris

Please hold yourself. I am not referring to the terrorist attack of Friday, the

13th November 2015, leaving 129 people dead and many more injured. I intend to

write on the Paris Climate Summit that was participated by 196 countries from all

over the world. The inaugural function, held on the 30th November, was attended by

the heads of 150 nations, to

name a few, India, America,

Russia, France, England and

European Union. It indicates that

they have all realised the gravity

of the situation and the need to

initiate appropriate remedial

measures on Top Priority. India

was represented by our honourable Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi. He held

bilateral discussions with various heads including Shri. Barrack Obama of US,

Francois Hollande of France, Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General, Shinzo Abe of

Japan on this sensitive issue. All these heads left after the inaugural function. The

delegates of all the 196 countries will stay put in Paris for next 11 days. Through the

negotiations they aim to achieve :

A treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) between 2015 and 2030,

so as to restrict the rise in average global temperature to less than 2oC over pre

industrial levels by 2100. It is well known that temperatures have already gone up by

less than 1oC over preindustrial era. As a result, the world is witnessing weird and

devastating weather events. Here in India, too, unseasonal rains, hail, storms and

extreme temperature variations are hitting farmers again and again. Their livelihood

is getting adversely affected, leading to devastating effects, deaths and spate of

suicides. As such it has become imperative to restrict it to below 2oC. Amount of

carbandioxide that is emitted in the atmosphere has to be contained to achieve this,

though it cannot be totally stopped. The share of developed nations in this emission

is much more than that of developing and backward nations. As such Indian stand is

that checking global warming is everyone‟s responsibility and developed countries

who are mainly responsible for this should take the lion‟s share of the cuts and also

give necessary funds to others to achieve this.

Let us hope that these deliberations in the days to come, will certainly

hammer out some agreement in this direction. It will help to save the mother earth

and mankind from extinction.

Dr. A.M. Joshi ([email protected])

Mobile : 9423001601

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On Business Ethics Foundation Front

National Conference Report

Business Ethics Foundation and Amity Global Business School, Pune

organized National Conference on “Business Ethics : Waves of Change – Ocean

of Opportunities” on December 2nd and 3rd 2015. There were four session – Ethical

issues in Industry, Education, Law and Medicine.

It

started

with the

Welcome address by Conference Chairperson Dr. Rashmi Hebalkar; followed by

Ethics poem recitation by the students of Music Department, SNDT College.

Col. (Dr.) Sneh Sharma, Director, Amity Global Business School, Pune then

briefed participants about Amity University.

Mr. Narayan Gune, Chairman Business Ethics Foundation welcomed the

participants, briefed about Business Ethics Foundation and mentioned that “Ethics is

a tool for Sustainability”. Dr. Rashmi Hebalkar then detailed on the Conference

theme and the two day programme.

Ms. Parimal Chaudhari, the Managing Trustee, Praj Foundation and Director,

Praj Industries Ltd. introduced the Key Note speaker Dr. R.A.Mashelkar sir.



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Dr. R.A. Mashelkar

India‟s one of the most

eminent scientists set the

ball rolling by the quote

“Research converts money

into knowledge; Innovation

converts knowledge into

money”. He mentioned that,

for sustainability, solid

business Ethics are

needed. By citing the example of „Tata, as the

House of Ethics‟, he added that such trustworthy

organizations are needed in today‟s volatile and

complex world.

According to him, the unwritten Principles

about ethics, matter a lot ! He gave illustrations

about Short term strategies Vs Long term

strategies in this context. To prove his point, he

discussed Volkswagen‟s case at length and

mentioned that Organisations today, need CEOs

– Chief Ethics Officers. He urged the audience to

develop the habit of “Ethics first and Business

afterwords!”

The speakers of the first session „Ethical issues in Industry‟ were Mr. Prakash

Telang, Tata Hitachi, Mr. Ramani Iyer, Forbes Marshal, Mr. Pradeep Bhargav and

Mr. Dilip Sopori, Cummins India and Ms. Alka Nair, IDG.



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Dr. S.G.Bapat, the Founder President of Business Ethics Foundation welcomed the

gathering and set few points in front of the panel as follows :

- Corporate Governance has made good progress in India.

- How middle and lower level officers understand Ethics?

- Role of Corporate Social Responsibility.

- Bright future of India

- Suggestions.

Ms. Alka Nair expressed her opinion and Mr. Prakash mentioned that Ethics,

is not a new concept, „Tata Code of Conduct‟ is universally known, Mr. Ramani

discussed it at length by giving examples from his personal life and conservative

family. He strongly believed that „Everything is possible‟ and added that „Money‟ and

„Value‟ are the two problems of India. According to him, the importance given to

shareholder value, Net worth, Profitability and Containment in corruption; will help to

reach a cleaner world!

Mr. Pradeep mentioned that – „Business is a sub-system of society‟. It was

found in 2G scam‟s case culprit was Raja; but „Praja‟ (the other stakeholders) is also

the culprits & sufferer. Mr. Dilip expressed that – „Ethics should be a part of our

DNA‟. In Uk, „Antibribery Act‟ is there. There is also „ Foreign Corrupt Practices Act‟,

in place. He mentioned that in his organisation, they believe in Ethical Leadership

and asked the audience to “Try not to become a person of success; but a person of

value!”

To sum up the session, Dr. S.G.Bapat mentioned that the panel is echoing

„Self Leadership‟. Dr. Dipti Tulpule, Conference Secretary delivered the vote of

thanks.

In the post – lunch session on „Ethical Issues in Education‟, Dr. Arun Nigvekar

of SCITECH park, Dr. Pandit Vidyasagar, SRTM University, Dr. Sneh Sharma of

Amity and Dr. S.G.Bapat, Founder President BEF were the speakers. Dr. A.M.Joshi,

Member, BEF started with briefing on Education.

Dr. Pandit Vidyasagar started his address with a comparison between

Sandipani‟s age and that of today. He said that „The purpose of education is not

making robots, but making human beings!‟ He gave importance to parent‟s role in

education.

Dr. Nigvekar

threw light on „Quality

in Education‟. He

mentioned that in the

age of Information,

Communication and

Technology (ICT), still

there is a place for

face to face

education. He helped

the audience

understand the

linkage between

Ethics and human behaviour.



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Col. (Dr.) Sneh Sharma chose to share the values like Moral courage, Truth,

Honesty and Integrity as Pillars for „Ethics in education and Education in ethics‟. He

gave the examples of Eklavya and Karna and asked the delegated to understand

metamorphosis change going on in education field and how ethics has a great role to

play.

In his concluding remarks, Dr. S.G.Bapat stressed upon the need for ethics in

education. He mentioned that „Distance Learning‟ and „Traditional Learning‟ both

have its place in education system. To prove his point, he gave various examples;

especially that of Shiv Khera and of Bill Gates left the audience spellbound. It was

followed by the Paper Presentations session.

The second day of the Conference began by the introduction of Dr. Ashok

Ranade from College of Engineering Pune (COEP), by Mr. Jayprakash Bapat.

The keynote speaker Dr. Ranade delivered the speech fantastically. He made

a beautiful presentation on „Growth Engineering‟ and Ethics. He mentioned that its a

„Tsunami‟ of changes and not mere waves of change – Amrit Manthan of 21st

Century.

He shared the fortune Unicorn list and stressed on the importance of shared

economy. He gave a unique direction by mentioning that Ethics is for stable

businesses. There is an urgent need for growth engineering related businesses, to

have some code of conduct.

He ended his session by giving the audience a though of the day :

- Will law and Ethics be able to stay ahead of Technology Tsunamis?

- Can Forums like BEF work proactively and provide guidelines for future

unicorns?

Dr. Mohan Uchgaonkar, Member, BEF welcomed the participants for the

session on „Ethical issues in Law‟ and introduced the speakers.

Ms. Nilima Bhadbhade from ILS Law College helped the audience understand

the roles of and expectations from judges, lawyers and clients. Her session included



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apt examples from every day life that helped the delegated understand complex

legal terms.

Dr. Jyoti Bhakare, an expert in Healthcare law, started her session with the

quote “Do to others, you would have them to do to you.” She explained that

ignorance of law is not excused. She further explained about – „Professional

misconduct‟ and cases on breach of equity.

Advocate M.P. (Dadasaheb) Bendre, the Chairperson of the session,

mentioned about the nobility of the profession and the place of ethics in it. He

enlisted the Do‟s and DON‟Ts for advocates in order to maintain ethics in legal

profession.

The post lunch session was in „Ethical issues in Medicine‟. The eminent

doctors like Dr. Sanjay Gupte, Dr. Vinod Shah and Dr. Mukund Joshi were the

speakers. They were aptly introduced by Dr. Arvind Nagarkar and Dr. Madhavi

Kulkarni, members of BEF.

In the curtain raiser session, Dr. Gupte mentioned that ethics start right from

the birth. He mentioned about the ethics during prematurity birth cases, surrogacy

etc. He mentioned about the technology, cost and limitations of medicines. He

explained about „patients‟ rights responsibilities and the need of charter for it.

Dr. Vinod Shah started the session by citing the examples of Maharshi Karve,

Sane Guruji and Mother Teresa. His „Janseva Foundation‟ has adopted 600 destitute

children for skill development activity. He is giving free education to those who want

to become wardboy and Aaya in hospitals. He wants to become a role model to

medical profession and treats „Patient as a God!‟.

He gave lively examples about autonomy of patients, mediclaim, Doctors‟

protection law and medical profession.

Dr. Mukund Joshi started his presentation on „Ethics in medicine‟ by showing

R.K.Laxman‟s Cartoons related to the topic. He expressed that medical ethics

comprised of : Ethics for Doctors, Ethics for Patients and Ethics for relatives.



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He explained about „Code of Professional Conduct‟ and Doctor – Patient

relationship. According to him, the relationship is paternalistic, contractual and

Fiduciary. He then gave a few cases for thought; and made the audience understand

that „Trust is essential to the practice of medicine‟.

The valedictory session started with felicitation of Mr. Vijay Shinde, the

Business Consultant, with „Lifetime Achievement Award‟. Mr. Shinde then thanked

BEF and Amity, and shared his experience.



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Mrs. Veena Kale – Tarkunde was also felicitated on receiving Ph.D. degree.

The Chief guest for the valedictory session was Shri. Shrikantanandji,

Director, Ramkrishna Math, Pune.

The evening drew to a close with an inspiring speech from Swamiji. Talking

about Ethics, Swamiji focused on „Solutions‟. He gave examples of Tukaram,

Vivekanand, Jamshedji Tata, Sudha Murthy, Sister Nivedita etc.

He stressed that Truth, Purity and Unselfishness will help build Ethical world.

He concluded by thanking Business Ethics Foundation and Amity Global Business

School. He also gave full marks to Business Ethics Foundation for conducting a

conference on the topic which is the need of the hour.



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Mr. Narayan Gune, the chairman of Business Ethics Foundation proposed the

vote of thanks.

Report Compiled by Dr. Veena Kale - Tarkunde



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Of Drought and Shameless Politicians!

Gone are those days when we could raise our voice against wrong happening

around us.

More than 6 decades of independence has made us even more helpless than

we ever were.

We have completely lost our self respect and most importantly our power of

thinking – „rational thinking‟. Where we today? What are we doing? Where are we

leading? Does any one of us have an answer to this?

I‟m sure, the politicians do! They would say, we are leading to a better

tomorrow!

Regions of Sangli, Pune, Solapur are seeing the worst drought in 50 years!

And we are developing as a COUNTRY!

Farmers today, are abandoning their priceless possessions. Why for, I ask?

For a farmer, his cattle means more than anything. Its not just a „living-machine‟ for

them.

They share a very different relations towards them. It‟s not a mere

possession. Their cattle is their life. They wouldn‟t eat one day, but their never

sleeps with an empty stomach. Never.

Today, these farmers are in such a petty state. Thousands of them are

abandoning their cattle, their cows, their buffaloes and a not more than thousand are

dying – and I don‟t call it suicide. I call it murder. They are being ruthlessing killed.

What are we as citizens of India doing? Sitting and watching a live morcha

from home? Creating a false impression that we care. Creating mob everywhere? No

one want to reach to the grassroute of the problem. All that people want to do, is, be

a part of a peace march, run in a rally, cyche for a cause and update these as, “their

status”, upload these as profile picture! Display picture!

Nobody cares, where the money is going. Nobody wants to be a part of the

system but still everybody talks about changing it.

Nupur Kulkarni Alpharetta, Georgia.

https://www.facebook.com/nupur.kulkarni.374

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alpharetta-Georgia/105775436121898



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