Management as art and science

Management as a science:

Management is a science because:

1. As a discipline it is having a systematic collection( or body ) of knowledge, facts, information, theories, principles
2. It uses advance scientific analysis and synthesis of information for forecasting and understanding the situations and problems.
3. It is dependent on systematic scientific inquiry.
4. Like other sciences it also tries to explain, predict and control the behavior of people teams and structure- The organisational behavior , thus it is not only science but applied science
5.  it is based on systematic planning( thinking ) and then execution( doing) rather than doing things with trial and error, in unplanned manner with intuition.

Management is an Art because:

1.  some times managers use intuition, personal mastery and subjective judgments to solve the problems in organisations
2. Managers don't do all the work with prior planning and then doing, rather than they also involve most often in the unplanned work and problems which require their personal experience and use of subjective judgments
3. Managers deal with human being and thus have to understand the emotions, relations with their subordinate employees and team. Dealing with the team and human relations is an based on personal understanding and empathy rather than use of science and laboratory methods. It is totally art of a manager that how to manage the emotions and keep up the team spirit.
4. Getting things done by others: this is what some time called getting results either hook or by crook. This is not the science but art of the manager to achieve the target in anyway.

Management is art as well science:

Above discussed points reveal that management is science as well as art because managers use both methods: 

Managers work in systematic, planned and scientific manner, use the theories of management to get the solution of the problems: so it is a science.

Managers also face situations and problems out of the scope of their plan and then they use their personal skill, mastery and intuition to solve the problem and get the results.

Both the things are practiced by managers and are complementary to each other. Management as science gives managers a scientific orientation and art focus on human aspects and result orientation. Thus management is science as well art both.,