School (UGBS) and the Department of Political Science were debating whether Management should be classified as a Science or an A
rt. The students from the Department of Political Science were of the view that Management is an Art whiles those from UGBS believed that it should be considered as a Science. A student from UGBS retorted: “You people even call Political Science a Science how much more management, what is really Science about your Politics?”. Based on this debate, do you think management is a Science or an Art? Give examples to support your argument
Management is the term that refers to the ability to designate the performance of tasks within a group and to optimize the resources that this group has so that the use of these resources leads to the achievement of objectives. Management must be carried out in an objective, clear, logical and effective and efficient manner, which makes management more easily seen as a science than as an art.
This is because, contrary to science, art is not intended to be exact and objective, but to be a technique capable of expressing and transmitting feelings through aesthetic manifestations that stimulate an observer's senses.
With that, we can conclude that management does not fit the concept of art, but can be related to a science through its form of development.
