Applying the Parable of Sadhu in Business Organizations

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The Parable of Sadhu
The story of the sadhu holds a lesson for those of us in business organizations. It offers a dilemma between the persona and group ethical expectations. Managers need to come up with proper ways of handling such dilemmas in business. The Parable of Sadhu teaches business people the need to develop cultures that support individual values, which leads to the success of the whole organization. These values also act as a guide when faced with ethical dilemmas in the organization. This parable talks of international individuals hiking through Nepal were not willing to help the Sadhu, who was suffering from exhaustion and hypothermia. A fleet of travellers had dumped the Sadhu. However, McCoy, one of the international individuals, was compassionate and was concerned about the Sadhu. He was willing to help the Sadhu and even persuaded others to do so. The parable also has a direct relation to business, in the essence that immediate responses are essential in business as well. Failure to respond immediately to the various concerns in business, can also be deemed as a decision on its own, with some serious implications for the business too. There is also the need to have a value system within an organization, or simply, an organizational culture that can take the business through the hardest of times.
In my organization, an employee may get tired or even get sick. He or she may need time to rest and recover. The other employees are faced with a dilemma of who will fill the gap ...