The Buddha with the Excellent Human Management

Abstract

This academic paper aims to study the excellent management in organizations and the excellent management of the Buddha. The Tipitaka, Documentaries, Books, Texts, and other resources were used.

The results found that: Talented people are expected to perform better than others, which requires precise, insightful, extensive knowledge, good skills to apply knowledge and work creatively to solve problems, have a good personality to work well, and interact well with people around them at all times. Talent management is the most important aspect of human resource management for making the organization more talented and increasing its operational capability to achieve goals. Therefore, it is important to focus on talent management according to the process of identifying talent, recruitment, selection, development, retention, compensation management, performance management, and talent success planning. The retention of talent in the organization is achieved through the learning and development dimension, the working environment, and new challenges and interesting opportunities. The Buddha managed talented people by starting with choosing to teach ‘the talented Buddhist members’ as his first targets, viz. the first five members of the Order, the Group of Yasa, followed by another fifty-four of his friends at the end, all of them attained Arahant (the holy one), for helping evangelize members into the monastic organization. There are ways to manage the talented person, namely: Arahanta (Arahantship), Anagami (the non-returning), Sakadagami (the once-returning), Sotapanna (the stream-entry), which includes an ascetic and a householder, by ensuring stability in life, participating in the creation of a Buddhist monastic organization, having the duty to be the preceptors and the instructors, to be the chief of Sangha’s Duties such as Bhattdudesana who have to manage the cooking and storing of foods, and Senasanapanyapaka who have to manage the lodgings. The Buddha appointed Ven. Sariputta, who expert in Abhidhamma, was given the command to help run the Buddhist Order. Further, the Buddhas had appointed Ven. Sariputta is the chief disciple on the right side, and  Ven. Mahamokkallana, as the chief disciple on the left side, as well as Ven. Ananda is a great personal attendant. In addition, the Buddha had declared the Etadagga (the par excellence) between Bhikkhus and Bhikkhuni as the main proposal to announce some special qualifications to the public at the time of Yamakapatihara’s (the Twin Miracle Performance).