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1Anindo Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor (General Management), ASM School of Commerce, NMIMS Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He can be reached at: anindo.bhattacharjee@gmail.com
2Sandeep Singh, Professor, Department of Management, School of Management Sciences, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. He can be reached at: anindo.bhattacharjee@gmail.com
Almost every religious tradition has provided some highly pertinent and useful moral and ethical tenets that if embraced in business thinking and action can contribute to sustainable business practices focusing not only on the financial aspects of business organisations but also benefit the society and the community at large. This article attempts to dig deep into some of the salient values of Zoroastrianism that could contribute to the field of business ethics and it is proposed that the wider application of these values could be beneficial for business leaders and professionals regardless of their religious affiliations. Tenets of Zoroastrianism ethics that have wide applicability to various business contexts have been presented in the article by first developing a normative framework of Zoroastrian ethics for business followed by an explanation of the desirable virtues of a leader or manager. The virtue and normative frameworks are mutually dependent on each other for developing a more responsible and practical view of business where morality and ethicality is never compromised but rather seen as a means towards creating a meaningful and profitable business. This article attempts to create an illustrative framework that might be useful for future research in Zoroastrian ethics as it still remains a less understood and under-researched area in the context of business ethics.
Ethics, Golden triad of Zarathustra, Moral irrationality, Virtues, Zoroastrianism
JEL Classification: M1
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