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The art of punishment

Is punishment required at all? Can an organisation or a leader do without it? Radhakrishnan Pillai explains.

By Radhakrishnan Pillai
Dr Radhakrishnan Pillai is an Indian management thinker, author, and Founder of Atma Darshan and Chanakya Aanvikshiki. He is also the Deputy Director of Chanakya International Institute of Leadership Studies. Dr Pillai has extensively researched Kautilya's Arthashastra, the 3rd century BC treatise and incorporated it into modern management.

He has written several books on management based on the Arthashastra, such as Corporate Chanakya, 7 Secrets of Leadership, and Chanakya in Daily Life among many others.

22 December 2018

The CEO or the leader of any organisation has a tough role to play. In order to reach the target set to him by the board of directors he has to tactfully get the work done by his team. Dealing with the employees of the organisation is not very easy task. He has to consider their problems, look at the areas in which they are getting held up and solve them immediately so that the work does not suffer.

At the same time, he has to be a disciplinarian. He should be very flexible with the employees, but he should not loose focus of goals and the priorities of the organisation – the reason for which he has been appointed.

At times, he has to even use his rod (punishments) to discipline his employees. How much punishment to be given, when to give it and why is an art, by itself. This art is perfected by Kautilya in the Arthashastra. This is one of the reasons that Kautilya’s Arthashastra is also called as Dandaniti – the art or the strategy of punishments.

Is punishment required at all? Can an organisation or leader do without it? Punishments are frame work set up by any society or organisation crossing which is harmful for everyone. What if this framework is not set?

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