ORGANIZATION, PURPOSE, AND VALUES: INTEGRATING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

People (employees and investors) are the strength of the organizations and the leader who integrates this understanding creates an environment where people can use their full potential, feel appreciated and grow in the process. Organizations need to promote leadership that is able to nurture the spirit of each employee in order to create happy and harmonious workplaces. Such a nurturing and liberating environment will trigger social energy, which is not only a sufficient condition for innovation but the precondition for creating collective pride.

Dr. Sunita Singh Sengupta

Founder of ISOL Foundation (India), ISOL Global Foundation (USA) and Academy of Value Based Management (Canada), is currently a Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. With more than 30 years of teaching and research experience Singh Sengupta specializes in the human dimension of organizations by integrating spirituality, human values, and care and compassion; published about 29 books and her forthcoming book is Handbook of Ancient Indian Wisdom and 21st Century Management - Transcending Paradigms, Harmony and Ethics is by Springer.

Dr. P Jyothi is a Professor of Management and former Dean at the School of Management, University of Hyderabad. She has over 30 years of teaching experience and for the last 25 years she has been teaching HR, OB and Entrepreneurship papers for MBA students. Dr Jyothi received the Best Professors award in the area of Human resource management in 2017. She has authored a textbook in HRM published by Oxford University Press, which is followed in several universities in India. She has more than 30 publications in national and international journals. Twice she received best research paper awards. 12 students were awarded Ph D under her guidance in the areas of HRM & OB

Dr. Suresh Kalagnanam is an Associate Professor at the Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. His research interests include management control systems, corporate social responsibility, and social values. He has presented at numerous national and international conferences and has published several scholarly works including academic research papers, technical reports, textbooks, and book chapters.

Dr. B. Charumathi, professor and former head, Department of Management Studies, Pondicherry University, with 27 years of experience, specializes in corporate financial and sustainability reporting; published many scholarly works; recipient of many awards including 1st Gurushreshtha award, ICSI (2022), Indian PI-SPARC project, and board member-PUSH, a Section-8 company fostering the innovation ecosystem.