Impact Of Yoga On Organizational Performance

IMPACT OF YOGA ON ORGANIZATION PERFORMANCE

(An Implication to Soldiers)

Dr. Nitin Girdharwal Associate Professor

Krishna Institute of Engineering & Technology, Ghaziabad

Affiliated to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow

Introduction:

The globalization of the industrial world makes it imperative for organizations to put special emphasis on organizational innovation, flexibility, productivity, and responsiveness for changing the external conditions of their performance. Organizational performance can be measured in terms of different criteria for different organizations, and it depends to a great extent on the goals of an organization. However, one way of comparing organizations with different goals is to identify surrogate

Yoga is generally perceived to be a way of keeping oneself healthy and happy. However, so far, very few empirical studies have been undertaken to establish such a link. The main contribution of this research paper is to fill this gap. Using a controlled scientific experimentation of employees, I provide an empirical assessment of the impact of the yoga way of life on five different organizational factors.

I show that adoption of the yoga way of life can bring about better job satisfaction, affective organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behavior, and goal orientation of managers. These factors indeed contribute to the performance of the organization as I have argued in the research paper. Through a rigorous literature review and understanding of the science of Yoga, I motivate the employees in organization to explore way of implementing the yoga way of life, as it promises to address the issue of organizational climate at a fundament

Material and Method: Review of Literature:

Factors contributing to organizational

It is argued that while measuring goal orientation, it is optimal to refer to the same situations for all respondents, due to project difference. However, Frese, et al. have showed that there is no need to provide a situational input for the goal, as there is a certain degree of cross-situational generality in the goal orientation scale. The four items used to measure goal orientation were anchored on a seven-point scale with 1 standing for 'strongly disagree ' and 7 standing for 'strongly agree.

Statistics Analysis:

Result and Discussion:

The data collected was analyzed using SPSS. The sample profile given in and indicated that 80 and 86% of the participants from the yoga and control groups, respectively, were from the age group of 21 to 50, while the rest were above 50. Similarly, 20% of the yoga group and 17% of the control group were from the top management (i.e., Deputy General Manager and above), while 57% of the yoga group and 63% of the control group were from the line-level managers (Deputy Managers and officers). The average total work experience of the sample group was 16.11