Impact of Integrated Yoga Module (IYM) on decision-making style of managers - randomised controlled trial study Taware Datta S.1,*, Research Scholar, Kumari Sony2, Associate Professor, Akhilesh K.B.3, Professor, Nagendra H.R.4, Chancellor 1Division of Yoga and Management, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, Bangalore, Karnataka, India 2Division of Yoga and Management, S-VYASA University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India 4S-VYASA University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India 3Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India *Corresponding author email id: dattataware@gmail.com
Abstract Decision-making by managers in the technology-driven, information-rich business world today is crucial as human beings have cognitive and thinking process anomaly evolved to make them systemically unpredictable. Training modules are not available that can be used to develop the effective decision-making style in managers addressing cognitive and physiological aspects. In this paper, we studied that respective human variable that are relevant to business organisations indicate decision-making style of manager and that are improved through regulation of energies in body-mind-complex based on willpower and self-control. We conducted the 90-day randomised controlled trial and introduced the intervention for the two groups. One group joined integrated yoga module - IYM (Yoga) (n = 63) and other group practised physical exercise (PhyEx) (n = 63). Repeated measures (RM) analysis of variance, conducted at the interval of every 30 days, show significant main effect of IYM intervention on decision-making domains (p < 0.001), whereas PhyEx did not show any significant main effects (p < 0.066). IYM has more reliable and consistent with long-term effect on decision-making style than PhyEx, though both are effective in short term. Top Keywords Decision-making style, Integrated yoga module, Willpower, Self-regulation, Physical exercise, Intuitive thinking, Emotional involvement. Top |