Despite the fact that the article's title had termed 'science', the remarks used in it "art or science marketing", set alight to the most lengthy and challenging controversies of the 'post-war period' (Brown, 1996). To understand “What is Management: Is it an Art or a Science?”, the first section provides a general discussion of how management science came into the limelight and explains F.W. Taylor’s principles and how it is related to the modern day workplace. In contrast to this discussion, it presents the views on Marshall’s analysis of Taylor’s principles. Following this contrasting perspective, explains how management is an art and explains how managers use both science and art in their profession by using a crucial concept of …show more content…
Decision-making is an essential component in a manager's role in any organization. Depending on the manager’s decision, the business may succeed or fall. It is not easy to take the right decisions for the organization because of the intense competition in the modern society and technology. In such a circumstance, managers have turned to management science for help since organizations are under pressure to do things faster, better and for less in terms of cost. Decisions can either be long – term (decisions based on the market expansion) or short – term (assigning staff members on a new project). At the time of Second World War, the UK government was threatened by its military enemies, the government established various groups comprising of researchers from various backgrounds, to apply scientific methods to its military planning and operational activities, henceforth the name 'operational research'. Their contributions (for example, radar system, bombing precision, and so forth) to the UK's war, made a new role in the task of financial reconstruction, pursued by the Labor Government at the end of the war (Anderson et al.,