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Is Management an Inexact Science?
AQEEL RAZA, Accountant, Pakistan, Member
Social sciences are considered inexact. And indeed, the knowledge and study of management is quite an inexact science for many reasons:
- There is no laboratory for testing the principles of management.
- The inclusion of actions by humans in management.
- Management is based on imaginations and thoughts.
- Management is already old but there are many changes in its nature.
- Exact sciences acquire knowledge from experiments and observation of research materials. Management deals a lot with the minds of human beings.
- Management applies knowledge according to the situation although it is using principles, methods and models to achieve a result.
- Management is also a science neither visible nor complete like other scientific knowledge. The chance of its total visibili...
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Management is an Exact Science Also
srinivas, Lecturer, India, Member The outcomes are the results of the interplay of the entities of the system. If the right entities are there and with the right interactions of the en... |
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Management is a Practice, not a Science
Javier Elenes, Business Consultant, Mexico, Member According to Peter Drucker, management is a practice, not a science.
It's about performance and its practices are based on knowledge an on... |
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Management is an Inexact Practice
Graham Williams, Management Consultant, South Africa, Member @ Javier's comment that practice is a more appropriate description of management than science, makes sense. Being e... |
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Management is a SYSTEMIC Science
Olaf de Hemmer, Business Consultant, France, Member The Valeur(s) & Management network of experts concluded that corporate issues can be analyzed, understood and improved by using methods based not on C... |
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Science is Science
mccarthy, Business Consultant, United Kingdom, Member I often hear/read the sloppy use of the word 'science' in business. I think people may believe something (more) if the word 'science' is used. It is v... |
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Social Sciences and Sciences
adam djeddi, Algeria, Member When you want to mention science, it is enough to tell what this science is. Like: physics, mathematics... But when we add the word - science - to des... |
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Management is a Practice or Art, not a Science
Jose Montoya, Professor, Venezuela, Member Management is a Practice or Art, not a Science. I agree with that postulate. There is no monopoly of any knowledge or at least an episteme. It only re... |
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Whether Management is Art or Science?
krishnamohan, Teacher, India, Member In my opinion, it is neither purely art or science discipline. Management is an applied science. It has many characteristics of both science an... |
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Management is a Complex Activity
Andre-Ambrosio ABRAMCZUK, Teacher, Brazil, Member Physics, Chemistry and Biology are exact sciences because they study processes which show the same effects as consequences of the same causes.<... |
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Management is an Inexact Science
James Antwi, HR Consultant, Swaziland, Premium Member I agree that management is an inexact science, because management principles are true within some margin of errors and their application is typically ... |
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Management is a Chaotic Science
Francis, Manager, Thailand, Member 💡I think management is a science as success & failure mode can be repeated with similar parameter settings. However it is under constant ch... |
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Is Management an Inexact Science?
LOGOFATU OCTAVIAN, Director, Romania, Member Basically, management is an art. Definitions in accordance with "management is the science of making things run well" I consider being wrong.
For... |
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Management is Real Science
habib shamsi, Director, Iran, Member High quality management results from applying scientific creations. It is essential a manager knows about and uses sciences. It is impossible someone ... |
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Management Really is not Sceince
Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan, Somalia, Member Really Management is not a science subject because it has no formula and experiments as we are seeing in science subjects.
And also management ha... |
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Management Science
Olaf de Hemmer, Business Consultant, France, Member @ Olaf de Hemmer: well, I agree with some of the reactions: management itself is not a science, but management sci... |
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Management Science
Jose Luis Roces, Professor, Argentina, Premium Member In my opinion it is a systemic social knowledge field, which includes practices and behaviors in all activities.
The effectiveness of management ... |
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Management is Both an Art and a Science
Riungu Festus Kinyua, Lecturer, Kenya, Member Management is both an art and science:
- When you manage processes and systems in the workplace, a lot of science is required as argued by Fayol ... |
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No Universal Meaning of Management
Meshesha, Financial Consultant, Ethiopia, Member All ideas raised above seem sound, but how can we reach on similar conclusion. We have been learning Management is a discipline in most business cours... |
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Manager have to be Artistic
Riungu Festus Kinyua, Lecturer, Kenya, Member Strategy is an art, dealing with people is an artistic process, and systems are normally fixed and routine which allows a scientific approach. Overall... |
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Management is Bigger than Science
Thob, Accountant, Member To me management is not a science but rather something bigger than science. Scientists can agree with me that even science needs to be managed. So man... |
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Management Can Be an Exact Science!
MUCHERWA NGONI, Student (University), Zimbabwe, Member 70% of management is a science. 30% is art. Management is a science because you can falsify your assumptions by using numbers. In other words y... |
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Apply Management Combining Arts and Sciences
eduardo oliva, Professor, Mexico, Member Excellent managers usually apply a successful combination of arts and sciences, both in a rational and intuitive manner. To what extent management is ... |
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Science is Science
mccarthy, Business Consultant, United Kingdom, Member Wrong and right. Management doesn't apply the scientific model to their work. They think they may do, but they don't. Even when they experiment which ... |
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Management as Inexact Art
Delfor Ibarra, Consultant, Argentina, Member Each particular science has revealed its inaccuracy and after that each individual has attempted to demonstrating this; nevertheless even if it is con... |
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The Best Managers / Parents
WALTER CASQUINO, Professor, Peru, Premium Member The head of a family deals with his family problems with basic management features. Although he gives his children the same goodies, care, hard hand w... |
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Management and “Science” - Discuss
Maurice Hogarth, Consultant, United Kingdom, Member Words have definitions. People interpret or re-apply these giving new meanings and referents. The variants may become the norm and make original defin... |
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Management is not a Science
eduardo oliva, Professor, Mexico, Member Management it is not a science for none of its phenomenology can be replicable and, thus, approachable on an accurate manner. Nonetheless, some parts ... |
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Why Management is a Science
Magassouba, Student (University), Guinea, Member In my opinion it's a Science because it constitutes an organized knowledge from different practices in different fields of management. Managers are ab... |
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Is Management an Inexact Science?
Andre-Ambrosio ABRAMCZUK, Teacher, Brazil, Member Science is an "offline" activity. Some activities are "offline", applying scientific principles, for example, production planning in a factory. Other ... |
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Science or Knowledge
Maurice Hogarth, Consultant, United Kingdom, Member @ Magassouba: Magassouba / Editor "Organised knowledge is science" Hmm; literally yes. However I believe this refer... |
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