Is Management an Inexact Science?




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AQEEL RAZA
Accountant, Pakistan

Is Management an Inexact Science?

🔥NEW 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 visibility and completion is zero because its principles create different results in different entities, in a different environment and at different times.

Overall, from the above discussion, I think management is an inexact science because it depends on thoughts and imagination, human actions and has no exact principles or formula.
 

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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar
India
 

Management is an Exact Science Also

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Javier Elenes
Business Consultant, Mexico
 

Management is a Practice, not a Science

According to Peter Drucker, management is a practice, not a science. It's about performance and its... Sign up

 
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Graham Williams
Management Consultant, South Africa
 

Management is an Inexact Practice

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Olaf de Hemmer
Business Consultant, France
 

Management is a SYSTEMIC Science

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mccarthy, United Kingdom
 

Science is Science

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adam djeddi
Algeria
 

Social Sciences and Sciences

When you want to mention science, it is enough to tell what this science is. Like: physics, mathemat... Sign up

 
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Jose Montoya
Professor, Venezuela
 

Management is a Practice or Art, not a Science

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krishnamohan
Teacher, India
 

Whether Management is Art or Science?

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Andre-Ambrosio ABRAMCZUK
Teacher, Brazil
 

Management is a Complex Activity

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James Antwi
HR Consultant, Ghana
 

Management is an Inexact Science

I agree that management is an inexact science, because management principles are true within some ma... Sign up

 
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Francis
Manager, Thailand
 

Management is a Chaotic Science

💡I think management is a science as success & failure mode can be repeated with similar para... Sign up

 
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LOGOFATU OCTAVIAN
Director, Romania
 

Is Management an Inexact Science?

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habib shamsi
Director, Iran
 

Management is Real Science

High quality management results from applying scientific creations. It is essential a manager knows ... Sign up

 
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Graham Williams
Management Consultant, South Africa
 

Is Management an Inexact Science?

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Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan
Somalia
 

Management Really is not Sceince

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Gabi Levin
Israel
 

Management is a Discipline Involving Science + Art

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Olaf de Hemmer
Business Consultant, France
 

Management Science

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Andre-Ambrosio ABRAMCZUK
Teacher, Brazil
 

Management is not a Science

@Habib shamsi: I insist and repeat: Management is not science, but activity that can be studied scie... Sign up

 
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Jose Luis Roces
Professor, Argentina
 

Management Science

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Riungu Festus Kinyua
Lecturer, Kenya
 

Management is Both an Art and a Science

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Don Berry
Manager, United States
 

The Most Effective Managers are Artists ... not Scientists

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Meshesha
Financial Consultant, Ethiopia
 

No Universal Meaning of Management

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Riungu Festus Kinyua
Lecturer, Kenya
 

Manager have to be Artistic

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Thob
Accountant
 

Management is Bigger than Science

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Tim Dibble
Project Manager, United States
 

Management is not a Science

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Gabi Levin
Israel
 

Management is an Illusive Concept

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MUCHERWA NGONI
Student (University), Zimbabwe
 

Management Can Be an Exact Science!

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Vincent Miholic
Manager, United States
 

Practice Ignores Rigorous, Valid Research

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mccarthy, United Kingdom
 

Studying Management is Social Science; Managing is Not.

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eduardo oliva
Professor, Mexico
 

Apply Management Combining Arts and Sciences

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mccarthy, United Kingdom
 

Science is Science

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Delfor Ibarra
Consultant, Argentina
 

Management as Inexact Art

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WALTER CASQUINO
Professor, Peru
 

The Best Managers / Parents

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Maurice Hogarth
Consultant, United Kingdom
 

Management and “Science” - Discuss

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eduardo oliva
Professor, Mexico
 

Management is not a Science

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Magassouba
Manager, Guinea
 

Why Management is a Science

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Andre-Ambrosio ABRAMCZUK
Teacher, Brazil
 

Is Management an Inexact Science?

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Maurice Hogarth
Consultant, United Kingdom
 

Science or Knowledge

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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
 

Is Management a Science

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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
 

Management is Practicing System Laws

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Maurice Hogarth
Consultant, United Kingdom
 

Science Says Management Isn’t a Science

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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
 

Management is Both a Science and Practice

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Mrs. Sayran Ghafuri
Coach, Iraq
 

Management Science

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Mrs. Sayran Ghafuri
Coach, Iraq
 

'Management is Both a Science and Practice' 

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