Administrative system

A civilised society is an organised society. It has many organisations, institutions and constituted bodies that work for fulfilling various needs of the society. It has educational, developmental, cultural, economic, social service and other type of institutions that promote the wellbeing of society and make scope for many meaningful activities. All these are run or led by administrators, managers, organisers, directors or executives. These persons co-ordinate the functions of various sections, departments or workers and facilitate their march, as a team, to their goal. Their work requires not only thorough knowledge of the work of the institution, organisation, department or office and its set targets but they have also to be conversant with the nature of the personnel involved in that work and have to use their managerial skill and their organisational abilities to achieve the goal with excellence and on time and within the contemplated or budgeted costs in spite of various difficulties.

In this work, knowledge of human nature is essential but, perhaps, the most important thing is control over one’s own nature. How can one have a long-time co-operation of the staff and the workers if one’s own mind and intellect, or emotions and will, or head, heart and hands, do not co-operate will each others? One cannot expect to have control over others if one cannot have control over one’s own sense-organs, thoughts and emotions. If one is of a volatile nature, whose hatred and anger easily flare up or who makes ugly gestures or postures when disturbed or agitated, one cannot occupy this seat of responsibility for long, for one’s relationships with others do not rest on an even keel. The tempestuous nature, the frequent outbursts, the use of provocative words and threats and the undignified mannerism makes one an abhorred boss. If one does not do justice and does not tolerate even very small lapses on the part of workers who are from different cultural and family strata, how can one administer?

But, to have control over one’s thoughts, sense-organs and emotions and to do things with ease and without feeling tense, and without creating tense situations, one he requires a special kind of consciousness-training that smoothens the ruffles of his mind and gives him easy self-control. It is this training and practice which creates harmony at work place. This is possible only through proper alignment of one’s own identity with the identity of others and by working as a trustee and by leading a life of self-respect and behaving with others with a sense of human dignity. This is what comes from spirituality, from observance of values and from practice of meditation. It is these which give an administrator a harmonious personality so that he can do his job successfully without having heart attack and peptic ulcers.