Application of Dharma Principles to Management

Abstract

Nowadays every organization and sector mostly relies on administration. In most of activities, the administration is a significant factor in working operation because it supports human beings’ performance more effectively than the past. An organization is arisen and available in human society in order to support human beings’ activities. Moreover, the knowledgeable and experienced human beings have tried to unite the group in order that they can achieve the organizational purposes because they have thought the only one person cannot make it happened. Consequently, the achievement is belonged to the organizational leader who can lead them to reach that goal. Therefore, the administration always comes with the organization and they are related to each other. The good administration needs the moral and ethical leader. The leader can make his controlees trust and respect him. However, there are a plenty of morality used in the administration.
The lord Buddha said there were 2 kinds of global diseases, physical disease (Kayika-roga) and mental disorder (Cetasika-roga). The Buddha declared his teaching for healing mental disorder and he was saluted by his disciples as the doctor curing diseases for all people (Sabbalokatikicchako). The medicine which the Buddha used was dharma medication (Dhamma Osot). In the Buddha era, if one suffered from any mental disorder, the lord Buddha would deliver a dharma for that kind of disease, which reflected a certain result. However, after the lord Buddha’s nirvana, the only remaining things was dharma medication with 84,000 items in the collective body of laws in the Tripitaka; any dharma medication depended on one’s purposive usage to the disease.
Appropriate selection of dharma medication for living was called “Dhammanudhammapatipatti”, by staring with little dharma practice in accordance with great dharma practice. It is a dharma practice relevant to humans’ goals such as if preferring the rich, selecting the heart to be rich or Ditthadhammikattha 4. If we need to accomplish in life, we need to follow the path of accomplishment (Iddhipada 4). The selection of dharma to accomplish the target is to apply any dharma to our real life. The question is when we set a target to become a moral and excellent administrator, what kind of dharma we will find and select it.
In conclusion, the administrator is a person accomplishing the target with others’ supports. Management which is based on morality, ethics and meritocracy holds the principle and accomplishment to reach the greatest goal in job; therefore, the administrator has to play key roles among his staff because of realizing the four noble truths (Ariyasacca 4), having virtues of great assistance (Bahukara-dhamma 2), taking care of 6 directions (Disa 6), being confident with the three admonitions (Buddha-ovada 3), creating with holy abidings (Brahmavihara 4), coordinating with things leading never to decline but only to prosperity (Aparihaniyadhamma 7), and applying to accomplishment with path of accomplishment (Iddhipada 4).