Beyond the Last Blue

Mountain
a biography of JRD Tata
BY R.M. LALA

Organization of the Book

Summary

Early Life

Leadership

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Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata

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Early Life

Leadership

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Birth and Early Years

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Early Life

Leadership

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Early Career
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Early Life

Leadership

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Innovation
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Early Life

Leadership

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Air India Connection

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Early Life

Leadership

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Leadership Mantra
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Early Life

Leadership

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HR Perspective
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Early Life

Leadership

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Sustainability meaning?

Most research has been focused on effects on physical rather than social environment

Human dimension of sustainability remains unattended

Examples are Google search, Walmart & British Petroluem

There are direct and indirect effects of organization on human health and mortality

Broadening Dependent Variables: Organizational effects on

Employee Mortality and Morbidity

Researches
This

has shown that health functions as a kind of social accountant

is true for organizations too

Health

status of the workforce is a particularly relevant indicator of human

sustainability

Organizational

mortality

decisions have profound effects on human health and

Provisions of Health Insurance

Almost all studies have shown that having health insurance affects health status
e.g. Medicare

Without health insurance people are less likely to obtain preventive screening
tests too

Health insurance also affects peoples economic well being

A study has shown that between 1999 and 2009, worker contributions to health
insurance premiums increased by 128% whereas companies proportion has
decreased from 66% to 60%

The effects of Layoffs

A study has found that layoffs are contagious, in the sense that it appears to model
others layoff behavior

Work Hours and Work-Family Conflict

There is extensive evidence of the harmful effects of long working hours and shift work
on peoples health related behaviors

One is 2-30 times more likely to experience a significant mental health problem if they
experienced work family conflict

Work stress and Consequences of Job design

This is measured by the amount of control people have over their work ie. more control
shows less work stress

Why does human well being receive relatively short shrift?

Human dimensions of sustainability in management literature are coupled

with their connection to profits, cost or productivity

Consequences of organizational actions on the physical environment are

much more visible over effects of actions on people

Another reason is the differential actions taken to make sustainability salient

Difference between environment and human sustainability derives from the

different actors in the two systems and the presumption of choice

What if we took Human Sustainability

seriously?

Just as a green company helps in brand building, a human sustainable

company will attract and retain employees

Same as in the case of environmental pollution, companies that do not

focus on human sustainability impose externalities that others have to
pay

Human sustainability do pay off for companies, like companies at

higher rank in the Great Place to Work Institute rankings perform better
on stock market too

Thank You