ISOL Research Foundation
The goal is to conduct studies and research in various studies related to human science, ancient studies of Vedas, scriptures and core Indian methods of healing and to put them into practice.
Integrating Spirituality and Organizational Leadership Foundation is an initiative started by Sunita Singh Sengupta and shared by like spirited people across the globe to promote leadership that nurtures the spirit of each person in order to create harmony at workplace and society.
The relentless pursuit of egoistic gratification has led to the current situation of corporate greed and lack of trust amongst people. People 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. This requires an outside – in approach. The need is to create virtue based organizational processes to bring transparency and accountability in order to create good governance practices. The virtue based governance practices is likely to build enlightened corporate citizenship behavior enabling the organizations to realize Sarve Bhuta Hiteh Ratah – Welfare and good of all human creatures.
The Foundation envisages promoting compassion and trust at workplace in order to create non-violent, non-exploitative and sustainable organizations.
The Logo
The Logo signifies the harmony of various religions. The inspiration has been drawn from Sri Ramakrishna’s idea of a Universal Religion based on the synthesis of sectarian beliefs. He, after practising Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam boldly, declared the oneness of different religions – based on his profound realization of the ultimate reality. He recognized the differences among religions but held the view that in spite of these differences every religion has an essential core of spirituality which constitutes the common ground of all religions. This harmony of religion is the spirit of the foundation. The logo depicts nine different religions leading to one religion -the Religion of Humanity.
Mission
Unity in Life
We focus at shared perspective to conduct vigorous business practices with a medium of spiritual justification by inculcating moral attitudes into a valuable leadership style.
- Corporate Behavioral Development by promoting harmony and, highlighting the commonalities amongst different faith traditions for the inner development of self, thought process and behaviour by practicing welfare and good of all human beings.
- Nurture people to attain by integrating the wisdom drawn from various religious faiths to merge into one source of aspiration-Serve for Humanity for Prosperity.
- To deliver seamless methods of handling the core areas in Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Business Organization.
- Value-based and Spirit-centric courses to create a spur in the corporate culture as well as in the society.
Vision
Where the mind is without fear and the head held high
We always yearn to promote a well established universal faith and wisdom network with the existing corporate culture. We, at ISOL, remain intact by creating an ethical methodology for people and society.
- We intend to come up with a monthly e-newsletter and a bi-annual International Journal of Spirituality and Organizational Leadership.
- To discuss concrete plan of actions like various training and consulting/ workshop activities to integrate the ecology of the soul with the ecology of organizations.
- To successfully expedite towards the development of non-exploitative, non-violent and sustainable organizations and enable an environment for promoting integral management and collective pride at the workplace.
- Help the companies in finding a balance between business practices, employee-employer relationship and sustainability and ethics of practicing authentic leadership based on different traditional wisdom.
- Create a research reservoir on Integral Management and Wisdom Traditions for Enlightened Management Practices.
- Envisages as a Research and Management Educational Centre for Integrating Spirituality and Organizational Leadership.
Integrating Spirituality and Organizational Leadership Foundation aims to integrate the wisdom drawn from different faith traditions into leadership styles to bring corporate prosperity and harmony in the society. It aims to promote harmony and understanding amongst world religion for the good of human beings, planet and nature. The edifice of the Foundation is rooted in different faith traditions and the purpose is to highlight the commonalities amongst different faith traditions for the inner development of self, thought process and behavior.
The research is being carried on nine wisdom traditions constituting nine Research Groups at ISOL Foundation:
VEDANTA & INDIC STUDIES
BIBLICAL & CHRISTIAN STUDIES
BUDDHIST STUDIES
JAIN STUDIES
BAHAI STUDIES
ISLAMIC STUDIES &
ZOROASTRIAN STUDIES
SIKH STUDIES
SHINTO STUDIES
JUDAIC STUDIES
1st International Conference (ISOL 2007)
The first international conference on Integrating Spirituality and Organizational Leadership, February 8-10, 2007 was organized and convened by Sunita Singh Sengupta on behalf of Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, India in collaboration with School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship, USA at University of Delhi, India. The scholars from USA, Europe, U.K, Africa and Asia presented their papers.
1st International Research Workshop on Spiritual and Ethical Foundations of Organizational Development
SEFOD 2009 was organized and convened by Sunita Singh Sengupta on behalf of Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, India in collaboration with School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship, USA at University of Delhi, India. The Conference was hosted by Pondicherry University and supported by IRCTC and State Bank of India. Scholars from USA, Europe, Asia and Middle East participated in the Workshop.
2nd International Conference (ISOL 2009)
2nd International Conference from February 9-12, 2009 was organized and convened by Sunita Singh Sengupta on behalf Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, India in collaboration with Infinity Foundation (USA) and School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship (USA). The conference was hosted by Pondicherry University. The papers were read by the scholars from USA, Europe, U.K, Africa and Asia.
2nd International Research Workshop on Spiritual and Ethical Foundations of Organizational Development
2nd International Research Workshop on Spiritual and Ethical Foundations of Organizational Development SEFOD 2010 was organized on behalf of ISOL Foundation in collaboration with Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee during October 7-9, 2010 at Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh. Again the scholars across the globe attended the research workshop and presented papers.
3rd International Conference (ISOL 2011)
3rd International Conference on Integrating Spirituality and Organizational Leadership was organized by ISOL Foundation from February 1-5, 2011 in collaboration with Faculty of Management Studies, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar and Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee and was held at Faculty of Management Studies, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar. The papers were read by the scholars across the globe.
4th International Conference (ISOL 2013)
4th International Conference on Integrating Spirituality and Organizational Leadership, January 10-12, 2013: Organized by ISOL Foundation in collaboration with Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The venue was Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar where scholars who came across the globe presented their papers.
2nd International Conference on Business Social Partnership : Towards Value Based Social Engagement
The Conference took place during September 7-9, 2013. It was organized by Academy of Value Based Management (A Unit of ISOL Foundation) in collaboration with Business Ethics Centre, Grand Valley State University & IESEG School of Management, Universite Catholique de Lille, France. The venue was Kirorimal College, University of Delhi.
National Conference on Spirituality for Economic Development
ISOL Foundation celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda organized a National Conference on Spirituality for Economic Development during December 7-8, 2013 in Delhi. The conference was sponsored by Indian Oil Corporation, Delhi. The venue was Central Institute of Hindi, Delhi Centre, Delhi.