Is Management an Art or a Science?

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.

Hi guys, in my own opinion Management is the process of coordinating all resources through the five major functions (planning, organizing, staffing, directing/leading and controlling to achieve organization goals.

#Justus Muia Your interpretation of science is incorrect. Yes, management applies principles of statistics but it does not use biological methods for data collection. The statistical methods (data collection is part of this) used are tailored to those of social research - more in line with economics or sociology.

The difference between this type of application v.s.a science based statistical application is the emphasis on causality. In social research, establishing causality is extremely difficult as we often do not have the luxury of a well controlled experiment. Even when there is a well controlled experiment, humans act in inconsistent and irrational ways that make some research results difficult to replicate.

To account for these biases and variables, the statistical methods and treatment of data used is very different and often more complex than those used by science. You will see that many scientists formulate causality based on less than 10 sample observations whereas in social science, the number of sample used are often in excess of 1000 (provides more statistical power).

Furthermore, many universities have their department of statistics in the faculty of arts (along with mathematics) as this is a concept that is entirely man made. In many ways, it is like a language that is used to communicate information. Finally about management - this is an entirely man made concept. Managers often apply scientific methods (just like all Arts disciplines) but is studying human behaviour (or a collection of human behaviour -> company) so it is still considered an art.

Nowadays, neuro-scientists are attempting to bring "science" into management by looking into the brain and its neurotransmitters. However, much of the experiments are done in a laboratory setting and cannot be applied to someone in a normal social setting. This is why social science places less emphasis on the molecular level and more on the human level.

As to what differentiates between Science and Arts, it really is the what is being studied? 'Scientific methods' are applied to both disciplines but the specific methods vary because the challenges facing each are very different.

Fun fact: Philosophy is the highest level of academic thinking. Everything evolved from it including 'science' and the scientific methods. This is why regardless of which discipline you pursue, you end up with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

Hello, I greet you in lord, management is both art and science because management teaches to do I mean art and it teaches to know I mean is science.

Management is both an art and science in my side. As a science, it seeks to know variables that affect performance and as an art, it uses the function of coordinating to determine the performance of workers.

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This is Priyaz Aajith.

Management is both art as well as science.

Management is the art of getting things done through the people.

Yes, management is a science as it contains an organised body of knowledge consisting of principles. So therefore it is also an art because it involves application of theoretical knowledge to the problems of human resources. In fact, handling people is one of the most creative arts.

As per my opinion, both are important for management.

Management means how to problems problem solved in front of you.

At that time both skills are required art and science.

Art skill means how to handle, manage that problem and at that time your behaviour, managing skill, communication skill.

And science skill means how it thinking about this problem and use is your knowledge.

Thank you.

According to my knowledge, Management as an art is the total random key too management because art implies in many ways as an old day's people basically base on a practical aspect, not a theory because practical will tell you the basic thing you're performing in the sense of art.

Example in some years back when man discover that females have a big part too take in male life when a cowrearer is lack of money what will come to his mind is too sale male cow that will fetch him money to start up a business and leave the female cow too produce young ones in performing art as an management in practical ways of performing management as an art.

Management is a both science and art it is a universal valitidy and science is a experiment can do art is a creativity art is pratice.