Is management a science or an art?

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Welcome to the current school debate. Please press 'edit' and post your thoughts on whether management is a science or an art.

Management is both an art and science. Almost anyone can learn how to be a manager but the art of it is to become a great manager. Anyone can see the results of a bad manager easy enough but what happens when you have a good manager in circumstances that heavily tax his ability to manage? What happens when the good manager under too much stress for too long has a bad day? The answer may be that he becomes a bad manager. What happens to a great manager when he faces hardships that would crush most managers? He innovates he takes the weaknesses of his situation and tries to make them strengths. In the hardest times is when you find the greatest managers and these managers bring this science to an art form

== HIMANSHU NEGI

BCA 1ST SEM 

SGRR IT&S DEHRADUN

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i think management is both art ind science. caz now days i m also studing this topic.i hav not enough time to tell in detail at this time next time i will jione u

Hello I am Babar from Pakistan

I think management is an art is not a science because in management your task is to betterly manage human resources and organizational matters in your circle of command & control.

in science you do not do this job. if you see science definition is entirely different from management and i am studying this topic for more accurate answer of this question.

HI I m Faisal from Pakistan

Mgmt is both science as well as art. It is science because ur performance is measured and results are visible. For performance there ld be some system in vogue on the basis of which ur Organization is assessed and graded. so these all are scientific jobs that could be meaured in quantitive formats.