In this era, executives are struggling with their work in the world of knowledge and technology explosion. The motto of modern executives is not politics or progress but high stress, high growth, speed, accuracy, and remaining number one rather than becoming number one. As a result, executives don't find enough time to spend with their family and friends. These factors significantly influence their personal, family and social lives. Therefore, maintaining quality of life has become a challenging task in this hi-tech world. Quality of life is operationally defined as freedom from discomposure, psychological boredom and stress, having satisfaction and happiness pertaining to material, physical, psychological and spiritual aspects of life. According to the literature review, it was identified that the practice of yoga significantly increases the physical, mental and social values of the individual thereby promoting quality of life. Hence, an attempt was made in this study to explore the relationship between yoga practices and quality of life. With this objective, a survey was conducted on the executives working in co-operatives and large-scale public sector organizations. Fifteen executives from co-operative sugar mills were selected and trained in yoga practices. Their quality of life was measured through quality of life inventory as propounded by Gloriea Noriega (1997). Apart from that, 334 executives from a large-scale public sector organization were also selected at random to assess their quality of life (Out of the 334 executives, 167 were practicing yoga). From the experimental method, it was found that yoga practices improve the quality of life. It was also observed that the employees of large-scale organizations practicing yoga had better quality of life than their counterparts. Further, the study revealed that the quality of life decreased when the age increased for the non-yoga practitioners, whereas the quality of life could be maintained by the yoga practitioners. The implications of the study are discussed in this paper.
In this era, executives are struggling with their work in the world of knowledge and
technology explosion. The motto of modern executives is “No Politics, No Progress;
High Stress, High Growth; Speed and Accuracy and Remaining Number one rather
than Becoming Number one”. As a result of this motto, an executive does not find leisure
to spend with his friends and family (Editor, 2005). These factors have significant influence
on the personal, family and social lives of executives. Gill (2005) said that 99% of
thousands great world leaders were all deceased. All over the world, executives suffer from “failure of success”. It means even though executives succeed in their career and
work; they fail in their family life or health (Del Pe, 2001). Therefore, maintaining quality
of life is a challenging task in this hi-tech world. The quality of life of executives can be
enhanced if the executives are capable of achieving balance in their five areas of
life: Family, Career, Health, Spirituality and Social Environmental Contribution. |
