Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contemporary Dilemmas of Management Sciences
- Organisational Change: Continuous Threat or a Chance for a Better Tomorrow Despite a Worse Today?
- Coopetition and Its Determinants in a Business Group: Theoretical Considerations
- The Effect of Managerial Ownership and Company Performance on CEO Turnover: Evidence from the Polish Two-Tier Board Model
- Effective Management Succession Models in Larger Family Enterprises: Presentation of the Best Practices in the World
- Management of Family Businesses in View of the Challenges of Modern Economy
- The Development of Instruments for Financial Security Management of Households
- Benefits of Competition and Cooperation among Local Government Units within Polish Metropolitan Areas
- Practical Experience in the Formation of Entrepreneurial Competencies among Students
- The Role of Innovation Management Standards in Fostering Innovation Processes in Enterprises
- Organisational Innovations in the e-Business Model Maturity Assessment
- Born Global Organisations in the Contemporary Networks of Relations
- Motives for Creating Open Innovation in Enterprises Operating in Poland
- The Entrepreneurial Context of Nonprofit Manager Assessment: Comparative Case Study
- Analysis of Current Managerial Problems on the Example of a Distinctive Organisational Unit of Public Administration
- Customer Service in a Marketing and Logistics Approach
- Human Resources Management in Enterprises 4.0: Opportunities, Threats and Challenges for Practice and Theory
- Variety Management and Diversity Management as a Response to Complexity
Contemporary Dilemmas of Management Sciences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contemporary Dilemmas of Management Sciences
- Organisational Change: Continuous Threat or a Chance for a Better Tomorrow Despite a Worse Today?
- Coopetition and Its Determinants in a Business Group: Theoretical Considerations
- The Effect of Managerial Ownership and Company Performance on CEO Turnover: Evidence from the Polish Two-Tier Board Model
- Effective Management Succession Models in Larger Family Enterprises: Presentation of the Best Practices in the World
- Management of Family Businesses in View of the Challenges of Modern Economy
- The Development of Instruments for Financial Security Management of Households
- Benefits of Competition and Cooperation among Local Government Units within Polish Metropolitan Areas
- Practical Experience in the Formation of Entrepreneurial Competencies among Students
- The Role of Innovation Management Standards in Fostering Innovation Processes in Enterprises
- Organisational Innovations in the e-Business Model Maturity Assessment
- Born Global Organisations in the Contemporary Networks of Relations
- Motives for Creating Open Innovation in Enterprises Operating in Poland
- The Entrepreneurial Context of Nonprofit Manager Assessment: Comparative Case Study
- Analysis of Current Managerial Problems on the Example of a Distinctive Organisational Unit of Public Administration
- Customer Service in a Marketing and Logistics Approach
- Human Resources Management in Enterprises 4.0: Opportunities, Threats and Challenges for Practice and Theory
- Variety Management and Diversity Management as a Response to Complexity
Summary
Abstract
As we lack one, uniform understanding of the concept of management, the author gathers different definitions available in literature. The text describes potential boundaries in which management can be described both when it comes to its subject and function. This article is also a search for the place of management among other sciences. Important part of the text is devoted to a discussion on whether we can talk about the management paradigm.
Keywords: boundaries of management, management as a science, management paradigm, functions of Management
How do we understand management?
It can be considered a strange situation that Poland does not yet have a uniform understanding of the concept of management. It is used in very different semantic contexts. Tadeusz Oleksyn said that everything is managed today. Most often, it is the company that is managed, but also the state, the national economy, diversity, conflict, time, own health and own career, uncertainty, environment, future, politics, fear, time, etc. Hence, this word is absolutely ambiguous. Bolesław R. Kuc said that there are as many management concepts as there were authors writing on this subject in 100 years. Łukasz Sułkowski adds the following to this strange situation:“Today, the term management is abused in relation to all social processes, e.g. conflict management or organisational culture management, and even in relation to abstract entities,managed by chaos.” This “allism” of the word management could be somehow tolerated if it only applied to colloquial language. Unfortunately, the ambiguous understanding of the word has been granted the right of citizenship also in science, including management sciences. It suffices to open any book or article in a management journal to find out. This situation applies not only to Poland, as evidenced by, for example, the following statement in a German academic textbook from 1990: “Neither the scope of management science is clearly outlined, nor the concept of management itself has yet been uniformly defined.”
One should definitely strive to develop and widely adopt a proper understanding of all basic management concepts, starting from the very concept of management. People who doubt the sense of specifying concepts and terms can be told that every young science begins its existence by specifying the basic concepts it uses.
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- The Future of ManagementVolume One: Entrepreneurship, Change and Flexibility, pp. 11 - 26Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2022