Chanakya's perspective - Recruitment based on Values.
Chanakya's Arthashastra is supposed to have been written during the 4th Century B.C. (Bandopadya, 1980). In Chanakya's treatise, the government was the organization and its basic philosophy was to create a welfare state. We can extrapolate the teachings of Chanakya about his observations about Kings as corporate leaders and of Kingdoms as modern organizations. "By any definition, the Chanakyan state was a welfare state par excellence in which the king was a model of personal purity and sobriety and is called upon to work for the happiness of the people. Chanakya’s value based leader: The primary goal of the leader: The leader's primary goal according to Arthashastra is to fulfill the philosophy of the organization. It was for the happiness and welfare of his subjects that the king existed. Leadership values: Chanakya gives a list of values the leader has to possess which among others include: (a) Piety; (b) Truthfulness; (c) Reliability; (d) Gratefu...