India Inc, superstitious at heart?

India Inc, superstitious at heart?

    TeamLease released its latest study in the ‘World of Work’ series on Superstitions@Workplace.The study found that a major segment of the Indian corporate workforce still finds sanctity in their superstitious beliefs to herald success, and this applies across the board. The survey revealed that overall faith in personal belief or superstition is quite high (62 per cent) among employees in India and more than half of respondents (51 per cent) follow superstition at their workplace.
    While Vaastu Shastra and Feng Shui are the most common practices followed at the workplace, the personal favourites are lucky charms like stones, colour-specific items, specific number oriented items and the ubiquitous bamboo shoot. The study also states that the management in India is generally adaptive to various superstitious beliefs of employees and does not restrict them from practicing it at work as long as it does not negatively affect productivity. Additionally, a majority of the senior management members at companies themselves believe that superstitious practices are more prevalent at the top of the order.  

KEY FINDINGS:  
Overall,faith in personal belief or superstition is quite high (62 per cent) among the target respondents;
Dependence on superstitious practices is found to be higher in Bangalore and New Delhi as compared to other cities;
In the modern workplace,employees enjoy the liberty of following their personal beliefs,with no resistance from the management;
Senior management respects employees’ superstitious or personal beliefs in their organisations;
Chennai reflects a high optimism on the influence of superstitious practices on their work front (72 per cent),whereas Mumbai reportedly disagreed dramatically (22 per cent);
There’s unanimity on the definition of Vaastu/FengShui being typecasted as ‘superstitious’ with 45 per cent respondents buying into that view;
High willingness of employees to follow superstition/beliefs at the workplace (81 per cent) is an eye-opener,with an equally high belief system seen across the senior management too;
95 per cent of the respondents reported a conducive cohesiveness in opinions amongst peers/subordinates about superstitions.