Od teorii do praktyki zarządzania. Czy zarządzanie jest nauką czy sztuką?
From theory to management practice. Is management a science or an art?

Summary/Abstract: Decision-making in the enterprise requires talent and special skills supported by the right qualifications. According to Tatarkiewicz, management can be considered as an art, which can be interpreted as (...) aware of the man creation is a work of art always when recreates reality, or shape forms, or expresses experience, yet is capable of either delight or fascinate or touch or shake up [41, s. 36]. On the other hand, the company management is understood as a continuous process of making decisions based on reliable knowledge, observations and experiences – is therefore a science, and modern managers are not just passive consumers of research knowledge, but also its creators. Contemporary theories focus attention on constructing appropriate models, which support the decisions of managers allowing them to somehow "spy" and observe the effects of their decisions. This article is a review. Its aim is to show that in the modern economy design models to support the management of the enterprise is the science that uses the achievements of other sciences, creative adaptation of these achievements in modeling phenomena present in the world economy. The authors present in the article mathematical models, computer models (used in situations where the analytical models cannot find the best solution), and in particular artificial intelligence algorithms – genetic algorithms and neural networks, agent-based models and selected models of dynamic system for managing the organization. The authors hope that these selected models will be the argument that management science is becoming more and more science and not an art.

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