Is Management an Art or a Science?

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In my opinion management owes both from art and science. Science relates to facts, principles and experiments. Art relates to a platform to express the skills. When both comes together, it becomes management. Bringing the principles & concepts into action is management. Without artistic skills management concepts cannot be communicated in the corporate world and without concepts skills are of no use.

Conclusion- Management is an Art and Science Both.

From the above study, we conclude that management is an art and science both. According to American Society of Mechanical Engineers. "Management is the art and science of preparing, organizing and directing human efforts to control the forces and utilize the material of nature for the benefit of men. "Thus, it has now been accepted that management is an art as well as science. It has the elements of both arts and science. In the words of Dean Stanley, "Management is a mixture of an art and science - the present ratio is about 80% art and 20% science.

Management is an art as well as science reasons being.

ART.

1. How a human responds to particular circumstance is an art an intuitive thing.

2. Managers have succeeded well across the globe who have thought out of the box which is clearly an art.

3. Getting things done by others (delegation) is an artistic skill and varies from person to person.

SCIENCE.

1. All firms across the world follow set of predefined theories of management which is in accordance with science.

2. Certain actions have particular outcome whatever the case may be.

3. Management when viewed as a science looks deceiving cos exact results cannot be predicted but actually Predictions cannot be accurate as mgmt. Involves human behavior & response which can vary enormously so it falls under social sciences.

Its of great pleasure to share the views well in my perspective management is an art because managers has to design the strategies basing on their personal skills and knowledge that they apply in management though it is strengthened by science through studying, coordinating and understanding the nature of human behaviors within the organization thus leading to efficiency in management making it both arts and science.

Management is an art because management is the process of organizing, directing, planning, controlling and coordinating the activities of man in aim of making profit. So therefore, management is an art.

Management is both art and science. It contains the features of both aspects.

As a science, management contains certain universal truth and principles that are applied in managing people in whole world. It's principle are same wherever in the world, difference is only on it's application. As an art, management requires certain skills in managing people which are personal possessions of managing person. In short, science teaches the 'process' and art teaches to 'apply them'. So, management is a judicious mixture of scientific and artistic approaches.

Management is a science of handling the people of different psychology, where you not only have to get the work done by the subordinate bur also respecting each individual having unique capability to perform certain duties in the own way. This gives the management the Art label, since different individual will do the same work in different ways. Then the most suitable process can be applied to achieve the maximum productivity. I see management as managing the resources-not only people but also other resources in the business. Hence it is a beautiful combination of Science as well as an art.

Management is art as well as science because it involves the element of arts like the capability of the person and their approach towards the given task. & the tools and function refers to science while to apply those is actually refers as art.

Hi, in my own opinion management can be regarded as both science and art both with more emphasis on art. Management requires personal knowledge to bridge available knowledge which science represent. Therefore a successful manager blends experience with science in order to achieve desired result.

Management is like a coin with both sides, it can be regarded as science and at the same time art science because: it deals with collection of data and hypothesis which must be done scientifically and also systematically and on the other hand art because: it requires some basic body of knowledge and it also gives room for creativity.