Varanasi, U.P -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/27/2010 -- Management Insight is a bi-annual publication of School of Management Sciences, Varanasi, India. Its objective is to integrate the practices of the professional world with the knowledge creation in the academic world so as to enrich the analysis of the researches occurring in the fields of Management and Information Technology and providing them with a speedy delivery for its dissemination amongst Management and IT publics. Its focus is on empirical and applied research. Management Insight welcomes original articles and research papers from both academicians and management professionals on business, management, information technology and related subjects. Papers based on theoretical or empirical research or experience is welcome including issues in original that come under analytical/empirical/case research.

Purusharatha, a journal exploring spirituality in management thoughts Numerous developments have taken place in the field of management in the last century and the present millennium from the perspective of both theory and practice. These developments have not only shown its impact on the economy of nations, technology and business organizations but also on the world society and human psyche The field of management is highly practical in nature and that makes it prone to highest level of scrutiny. Theories are accepted and rejected on the basis of its practical utility in short term or long term.

If we look back at most of the modern management theories, one inherent fallacy that can easily be observed is that they have been developed with the mindset that profits are more important than the human beings. Profit or any other factor can never supersede the human factor and that is a reality. Ignoring the human factor can never lead to long term survival of not only a management theory but also business organizations and even nations. degrade human beings to the animal level. Moreover the nature has given enough resources to fulfill the needs of all human beings but when it comes to desire there always will be scarcity. Mahatama Gandhi had once said that this earth is too big to take care of all human beings but is too small for the greed of people.

With the above thoughts at the back of the mind, School of Management Sciences has taken a novel initiative to add a new dimension into the management thinking by starting a bi-annual journal ‘Purushartha’. The Journal ‘Purushartha’ has been started with an objective to focus primarily on:

• Blending of ancient Indian management thoughts with the modern management principles

• Business ethics

• Values

• Indian spirituality for modern business