One of the largest corporations in the United States turned to the Maharishi Corporate Development Program in an effort to improve employee health and effectiveness.

Managers and employees in a large Midwestern manufacturing plant of the Fortune 100 company, as well as those in a Pennsylvania distribution company, learned the Transcendental Meditation technique (company names withheld in accord with corporate policies). After 3 months the employees who learned the TM technique were compared with a control group of non-meditating employees who worked at similiar job sites, held similar job positions, had similar demographics (age, education, etc.), and similar personality characteristics before the study began.

The study was published in the international scientific journal Anxiety, Stress, and Coping. Researchers reported that, compared to controls, the group that learned the TM technique had significantly

Less anxiety, job tension, insomnia, and fatigue

Reduced cigarette and hard liquor use

Improved health and fewer health complaints

Enhanced effectiveness, job satisfaction, and work/personalrelationships.

As found in previous studies, the effectiveness of the TM program in reducing anxiety, smoking and drinking, and in promoting personal development was substantially greater than other forms of meditation or relaxation.

A study published in a leading management journal found that managers and employees practicing the Transcendental Meditation program an average of 11 months* showed significant improvements in job performance and job satisfaction as compared to members of a control group of co-workers and supervisors. People at every level of the organization benefited from the TM program.

* The benefits of the TM program are both immediate and cumulative.

"Over a six-year period, the Transcendental Meditation program was introduced to over 70% of our managers and employees, and they were encouraged to meditate on company time at the plant. As a result, productivity, sales, and profitability all improved dramatically, the creativity of our research department went up, and absenteeism dropped sharply, as did sick days and injuries. The TM program paid for itself in two months on the basis of reduced absenteeism alone. The TM program has been my best business decision."

R. W. Montgomery, Jr.
former CEO, H.A. Montgomery Co.

R.W. "Buck" Montgomery was looking to turn around his Detroit-based chemical manufacturing firm, the 40-year old H.A. Montgomery Company. Buck explored different stress managment and employee development programs. After much research he introduced the Transcendental Meditation program throughout the company. The impact was immediate. Productivity improved substantially. Absenteeism dropped sharply as did sick days, and drug and alcohol abuse. Sales per employee climbed 120% in two years and profitability soared 520%. Buck later sold the company and now is a top executive at USA Global Link,Inc., a rapidly growing international telecommunications company.

Sumitomo Heavy Industries

More than 10,000 business people in Japan have learned the Transcendental Meditation technique. Over 2000 of them are top executives of leading Japanese companies including Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Toyota Motor Company, Kyocera (Yashika), and I World Supermarkets. Over 100 Japanese companies have introduced the TM program to their managers and employees.

After the implementation of the Transcendental Meditation program at Sumitomo Heavy Industries, a high technology company with about 8000 employees, research on the project was conducted by the National Institute of Industrial Health of the Japanese government's Ministry of Labor. The study evaluated 447 participating managers and employees in comparison to 321 controls at the same company. Participants showed substantial improvements in physical and mental health, including significant reductions in anxiety, insomnia, depression, emotional instability, physical complaints, smoking, and digestive problems.