The popular perception that a high intelligence quotient (IQ) is not necessarily a good predictor of professional and personal success has led to a growing interest in understanding the role of emotional intelligence (EI) in improving the performance of business managers. This paper studies the impact of the yoga way of life on EI using data collected from 60 managers in a business enterprise and reports enhanced EI as a result of the practice of yoga. The results indicate the importance of yoga as an integral element in improving managerial performance in organisations and the need to further explore this construct in greater detail.

Burnout is a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job, and is defined by the three dimensions of exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficacy. Job burn-out is a debilitating psychological condition, which has serious repercussions for an individual's personal health as also on the organizational effectiveness. The past 25 years of research has established the complexity of the construct, and has placed the individual stress experience within a larger organizational context of people�s relation to their work. As a holistic science concerned with all aspects of human functioning, yogic science provides a unifying framework by which stress can be understood and eliminated. Yoga involves a systematic method by which we can begin to expand our awareness of the processes which lead to stress and thus gain control over them. Yoga way of life has direct relevance to address the issue of stress and burnout. While several studies in the past have acknowledged this aspect and discussed various ways by which Yoga can address this aspect, till date very little effort has gone into empirically assessing the impact of Yoga way of life. The main contribution of this paper is to fill this gap. This study hypothesizes that managers who learn and adopt the Yoga way of life will be able to reduce their job burnout better than the others who engage in other things to improve their physical and mental progress. An experiment was conducted to collect data and test the hypothesis in a manufacturing unit. The results show that adoption of the Yoga way of life can significantly reduce the job burnout of managers. The Yoga way of life is an integrated approach to the changing physical, mental, vital and emotional personality of an individual. It is aimed at making managers more evolved individuals with better understanding of their job situation in the overall context of life. Through a rigorous literature review and understanding of the science of Yoga as given in our scriptures, the paper also provides an explanation of the mechanism of how this happens. Among many suggested coping skills for stress, yoga happens to be fitting in the best, mainly because of its ability to change positively the individual responses to stress stimuli. However, in order to get benefit of Yoga in its entirety, one has to adopt Yoga as a technique of life management. The authors motivate the HR managers in organizations to explore ways of implementing the Yoga way of life as it promises to address the issue of stress at a fundamental level.

Background:Organizational performance can be attributed to a number of factors. However, there are certain organizational factors, the presence or absence of which can determine the success or failure of the organization. There are different ways in which organizations try to improve their performance by working on such factors. In the research presented in this article, an attempt is made to find out whether adoption of the Yoga Way of Life by managers can have a positive impact on such organizational performance indicators.Aims:To measure effect of yoga way of life on five different indicators through an empirical study.Materials and Methods:The five indicators are job satisfaction, job involvement, goal orientation, affective organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior.Statistics Analysis:Pre- and post-data was measured using self-reported questionnaire. Independent T-test (Paired) and Pearson’s correlation test were conducted using SPSS.Results and Conclusion:The results of the study show that Yoga has a significant positive impact on four out of five of these indicators. Only job involvement does not show significant improvement. The construct used for measuring job involvement had a Chronbach alpha of 0.613, which is an indicator of moderate reliability, which could be the main reason for not getting positive result.

The success and growth of Indian information technology (IT) service firms over the last decade has been built on the 'linearity' model of operation, wherein revenue expansion implied a proportionate increase in human resources. While the linear business model has served companies well in the past, its long-term sustainability is now being questioned on the grounds of organisation size, manageability, and rising costs. Zyme Solutions Inc (Zyme), a fully outsourced hosted data intelligence service provider to the high-tech vertical market, has enjoyed spectacular growth over the last few years by building its business around a non-linear business model. Prof D V R Seshadri spoke to Chandran Sankaran, who founded Zyme in 2004, about how the Zyme business model was conceptualised and grown. Sankaran's previous experience in consulting and enterprise software enabled him to see that it was possible to build a business by encapsulating deep domain knowledge in a software platform. Simultaneously he was attracted by the business model of outsourcing, realising that the traditional model of enterprise softwaredfirst building a software application and then trying to educate customers on how to use itdwas not working. Zyme combines the standardised platform aspect of a software business with the end-to-end business process value of a services company. Zyme helps customers derive benefits such as incentive cost optimisation, in channel inventory management, revenue accounting and audit risk compliance. While in theory the model may appear easy to replicate, Sankaran is confident of his company's first-mover advantage in the domain and the market space. The shift to a non-linear model, according to Sankaran, would require ITES companies to change their mindset fundamentally, from focusing on the pool of people to the market problem, and defining, building, and selling the solution footprint.

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