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Developing Institution Building Skills for India : a book on PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE FOR MULTI CASTE SYSTEM.

By Sitasaran Singh
B.Sc.Econ. (Government) (LSE), M.S. (Akron), MCP (Cincinnati), LL.B., Ph.D. Certified Management Consultant 

THEME:

INDIAN SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR: Replacing Popularly held Notions of IMPLEMENTORS

ABSTRACT:
The author on graduation from the London School of Economics discovers the Indian social and institutional realities very different to what he was provided in the name of education. Through a quarter of century of interaction conceptualises insights in to Developing Institution Building Skills in the form a book PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE FOR MULTI CASTE SYSTEM.

Professionals, planners and policy makers have to deal with the issues, operationally task goals and decisions in their organization & territories. Ideas standards ideals and ideology though initially appeal to our minds, yet cause embarrassment after some time when we notice the actual practices in the real world. Professional development programs have to take cognizance of deeply embedded stereotyped prejudices and bias in our minds against others based on race, caste, religion and gender. 

The professionals committed to the development: functional-individuals, groups, organizations and community have a special interest in the discovery of new techniques for dealing with the dysfunctional part of our attitudes.

What then leads to growth and Professional competence? This book attempts to highlight this process through concepts, application and illustration of social sciences in action in India.

I recommend this book highly for the general reader, it is a must for the university libraries of the world.

Baidya Nath Varma Professor Emeritus of Sociology 
The City University of New York.

BOOK HIGHLIGHTS

I. INTRODUCTION:

Professional policy makers have to deal with the context, issues, policy content and implementers during working towards task goals and decisions in their organization & territories. Idea standards and ideology though appeal to our minds, cause embarrassment after some time during actual practices in the real world.
Professional development programs have to take cognizance of deeply embedded stereotyped prejudices and bias in our minds against others based on race, caste, religion and gender. The IMPLEMENTOR for becoming committed to the humanity and development should replace popularly held notions.
Such functional-individuals, groups, organizations and community have a special interest in the discovery of new techniques for dealing with the dysfunctional part of attitudes. What then leads to growth and Professional competence? This book attempts to highlight this process through concepts, application and illustration of OB in action in India.

II. PREFACE. 

B.N. Verma, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
The City University of New York:

What interests me most in this book is his thinking as a theorist. I am a life-long theorist, and I have been looking for a theoretical book on the problems of society all my life. Dr. Singh provides guidance to politicians and administrators based on his experience in training hundreds of groups nationally and internationally. His education at the London School of Economics and several universities in the United States has been helpful to him. It has guided his work ethic.

I recommend this book highly for the general reader; it is necessary for the university libraries of the world.

CHAPTER 1:

Towards explaining Indian Social Behaviour
(The Socio cultural context)

Non-spatial reasons for geographical variation (in the reality of India: culture or conflicts.) have been understood in terms of several independent socio-economic variables and dependent variables. The Spatial Analysis raises the question: Is there a subculture of violence in the north-central India/Hindi heartland?

Risley's caste data 1931 is examined and compared with other empirical research findings on industrialization, urbanization, tribal development and regional transition from primary to secondary activities. Awareness of stereotypes/prejudices/attempts to reduce prejudices. No welfare society, least of all a democracy, can dispense with affirmative action which is necessary to fight deep-rooted social prejudices.

CHAPTER 2:

Social Science in Action:
(The Encounter)

Small group behaviour Process of various training workshops North India has been documented. . How their early conditioning/socialization have created barriers for effective work groups during services delivery .New techniques have been innovated to create relatedness by the trainers. The readers get an insight into ways of becoming competent professional amidst multi-caste system. 

CHAPTER 3:

Institutional Skills
(The Insight)

Moral leadership is the key: for Government, political parties, service delivery organizations to become viable institution in a country with variety of subcultures, castes, languages, urban/rural interests and varying expectations.

An Implementer/ Public Administrator/ Service delivery provider has not only to have a human face but has to be genuine in spirit (vision, values and expectations). The action-centered person has to have a sensitivity to task, group, individual needs (beyond stories, symbols, power structure, organizational structure, control system, rituals and routines.) .The mission, goals, objectives, strategy or policy/procedures has to be congruent with the spiritual dimension: leading with norms, deepest things of life amidst the traditions of behaviour. Development of ' principles' through discussion, consensus is necessary for creation of 'flow of sympathy' to the unit's members and the territory for which the institution/agency. With EMPATHY and 'human' interaction of 'contact' one can acquire moral leadership, develop professional competence of relatedness, harmony and implementation of vision, mission, objectives, strategy for an impact producing organizations.

APPENDIX:

SUMMARY of empirical research findings/techniques/feedback to back up the above presentation:

Appendix 1: Interpreting Human Experience: Survey of Applied Social Science techniques/literature 

Appendix 2: How to create IMPLEMENTATION MANUAL?

Appendix 3: Confessions of a PRO: Management Consulting Author's experience in India

Appendix 4: Confessions of a PRO: Opportunities in India

Appendix 5: A Study of Indian Political Behaviour

(a) In developing countries where Agriculture is the dominant occupation, the Rural Agricultural character of the region reflects in its political behaviour.

(b) Effective Economic Development of a region requires consonant vigilance and the major contribution on the part of the locally elected politician.

(c) Voters have very little perception of the outside world and abstract Ideologies such as communism or socialism. They are almost wholly interested in local problems.

(d) Due to the great illiteracy of the voters and lack of efficient communication and transportation facilities, candidates for election must necessarily utilize the services of intermediaries to reach the voters.

Appendix 6: Role of manager in India's Economic development

Appendix 7: Selected Caste Proverbs & Sayings

Source: Census 1931. (In Chapter 1 of this book, the author found these POPULARLY HELD NOTIONS creating barrier in organizational success, which need to be replaced)

Length:

Approx.125000 words

AUDIENCE:

This book will be read by Professionals, Managers in organizations, Community consultants/ Head hunters/Bankers/Health Professionals/Anthropologist/Sociologist/Planners and HRD professionals/trainers/Social workers in Non governmental organizations and Public services delivery organizations. It is necessary for India's politicians and top libraries of the universities. It is indispensable for gaining insight: Management & social work students /International executives seeking insights for work in India or with Indians. They need to understand the Institutional aspects of Indian democracy and society, to deal with deep-rooted social prejudices. Then with the required INSTITUTIONAL SKILLS, one can be professionally competent to work amidst India's multi-caste system.

(The Internet search reveals there is one book under CHANGE MANAGEMENT: Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. (POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INSTITUTIONS and Decisions. Edited by Douglas North, Randall Calvert and Ann Eggerstsson) But it is not written for India.

Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the CITY University of New York has written the Foreword: the book (proposed not only uses all the tools of Applied Social Science and Applies them in Indian context but attempts to provide a training tool THE CASTE GAME and thereafter) develops a Social Theory to explain all the issues in organisations and society. It presents INTITUTIONAL SKILLS. That has been appreciated by hundreds of training groups, consultants and Dr. Eric Miller of Tavistock institute, London. On Dr. Eric Miller's advice the appendix contains the CONFESSIONS of a PRO.

For whom the study was undertaken:

The Illustrated Weekly of India, Patna University, University of Akron, Cincinnati, Kentucky, Thames Valley University (Reading campus) Fred McCrindle, OB.E. Principal, Reading College, February 2004, Nationalized Banks, Bihar's State Departments involved in Services delivery (Health, credit, literacy and education) Unicef, World Bank Pilot projects (NABARD/LAND DEVELOPMENT BANKS 's Training centers), Bihar State Resource Centers, ILO sponsored programmes IYB workshops conducted at Employers organizations, Business schools , for American Planning Associates.Inc. Kentucky Department of Transportation, Kentucky Research Foundation and GLOBAL REACH (Center for Planning Development & Science) working for Asia Pacific region universities.

1. Have any of the essays in the volume been published elsewhere?
The concluding chapter on Institutional Skills
2. If so, please provide full details of where and when: 
"Institutional Skills" in Consulting for Corporate Restructuring, Institute of Management Consultants of India (IMCI) publication 1997

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