The Indian Manager of the 1980s

Arabinda Ray The history of Indian industrial management in the period since Independence has made it quite clear that while we had a strong family and hierarchical tradition, we, unlike Japan, did not choose to exploit it in building our industrial, including management, relation patterns. Instead we chose to adopt norms of the Western world as the massive amount of American management literature that has been absorbed in this country in the last two decades will testify.