Bhagavad-Gita: History’s First Manual on Results-Based Management
Main Article Content
Abstract
Background: This is one in a series of articles in which the author attempts to relate Eastern philosophy to contemporary programme planning and evaluation.
Purpose: The author compares and contrasts the Bhagavad-gita with contemporary guidance on Results-based Management.
Setting: Not applicable.
Subjects: Not applicable.
Research Design: Not applicable.
Data Collection and Analysis: The author used the four pillars identified as being the base of RBM from a UNDP technical note as the framework for the analysis.
Findings: Not applicable.
Conclusions: In RBM strategic goals are defined that initiate a causal process in which results are specified to achieve the goals, and these, in-turn, determine programmes, processes and resources.
One of the central ideas of the Bhagavad-gita is the performance of activities without attachment or any expectation of results. This is a concept to which the tome refers as renunciation. Furthermore, the Gita states that renunciation enables us to enter into a conscious alignment with the higher order.
Downloads
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Copyright and Permissions
Authors retain full copyright for articles published in JMDE. JMDE publishes under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY - NC 4.0). Users are allowed to copy, distribute, and transmit the work in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes, provided that the original authors and source are credited accurately and appropriately. Only the original authors may distribute the article for commercial or compensatory purposes. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org
References
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, A. C. (1986). Bhagavad-gita As It Is. Mumbai, India: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.
Development Assistance Committee. (2002). Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management. Paris, France: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Evaluation Office. (2002). Results Based Management Concepts and Methodology. Technical Note 2000. New York, NY: United Nations Development Programme.
Evaluation Office. (2007). Evaluation of Results-based Management at UNDP: Achieving Results. New York, NY: United Nations Development Programme.
Office of Internal Oversight Services. (2008). Review of Results-based Management at the United Nations. A/63/268. New York, NY: UN General Assembly.
Russon, C. (2008). An Eastern paradigm of evaluation. Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation, 5(10), 71-77. https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v5i10.183 DOI: https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v5i10.183
Russon, C., & Russon, K. (2009). The Insight Evaluation Approach. Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation, 6(12), 205-209. https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v6i12.231 DOI: https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v6i12.231
Russon, C., & Russon, K. (2010). How the I Ching or Book of Changes can inform western notions of theory of change. Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation, 6(13), 193-199. https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v6i13.252 DOI: https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v6i13.252