Understanding Organizational Behavior in India: An Indigenous Perspective

Abstract

This chapter analyzes the manner in which the field of organizational behavior in India has undergone change in the context of various intrinsic and extraneous considerations. As experimenting and innovating with the organizational systems is necessary for growth the process of indigenization becomes an evolutionary process. A critical scrutiny of the developments within the academia and practices in applied settings suggest that the challenge of indigenization is embedded in the cultural milieu. The indigenization agenda has the potential to creatively orchestrate the seemingly continuous as well as not so continuous aspects of the evolving reality of Indian organizations. In view of the contemporary global scenario of transnational organizations, multicultural workforce, and the larger politics of knowledge, the promise and challenge of indigenization for the subdiscipline of organizational behavior are elaborated.