In Search Of Personality Inventory For Indian Managers:An Application Of Structural Equation Modelling R | Malay Biswas

Guna is one of the primal constructs of human behaviour, as perceived by Indian philosophers. The present research work is a renewed attempt to understand one of the complex and controversial constructs of Indian Philosophy, with the help of modern statistical architecture. The author undertook multi-sample studies to explore the various Guna constructs, available for scrutiny. The author utilised a confirmatory framework to evaluate two scales, which reportedly measures the Guna construct with the help of two different samples, collected from three five star hotels, one budget hotel, one leading retailer in India, and one multinational bank, operating in India. The author has made a confirmatory assessment of the two constructs, using a structural equation modelling. The research work affirms the robustness of the construct, as professed by Indian philosophers. Though these measurement tools appeared to be robust, they require further refinement in terms of connotation, depth and interpretability. This basic work will indeed open up the possibility of utilization of the said framework in other studies. The author believes that his present effort will work as an invitation to Indian authors for further investigation. For example, this framework can be utilised with other organizational outcomes to evaluate to as to what extent Gunas, located in every, individuals, influences employees’ perceptions, motives and motivations. As this framework is more holistic it has the potential to explain the behaviour of Indian managers more profoundly.