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As I have shown in previous posts, managerial skills have become one of the dominant approaches to representing managerial work in research since 1967. This has done little to understand what a manager actually does. Why? Well, if we learn what skills a particular manager or group of managers had in a given situation, we will only get an answer to the question of what they were able to do, but we will not know what they actually did. Of
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Previously, I described two approaches to the representation of a manager’s work dominant in management science, namely managerial skills and managerial roles. Now it’s time for the third approach, which brings us closest to answering the question – what does a manager do. It’s time for management styles. Management styles were first introduced into general team management by Tannenbaum and Schmidt [1]. A management style is defined as a preferred way of directing people in order to bind together diverse
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In a previous post, I outlined 3 reasons that make it impossible or at least difficult to make a copy of a human in the form of a robot manager from the standpoints of the unpredictability of the world, the impact of the machine on humans and communication. But there is something else in management science that is also blocking progress in automating the work of the manager. What is it? Well, in management science, for decades no one has
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Have you ever wondered why you can’t buy a manager for your company? It’s not about hiring a human manager, but buying a machine manager of a certain type, such as one who manages the production or marketing department. Making such a manager digitally shouldn’t be so difficult after all, and yet… there is no manager store! Why? On the one hand, there are a number of phenomena that should cause one to eventually be able to buy oneself a
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Do you realize that your grandchildren may no longer be employed, in jobs that were until recently only for humans? Writing songs that will top the charts or conducting scientific research will be handled by robots in just 20-30 years. In 2016, a group of researchers from Oxford University and Yale University conducted a survey to prepare a prediction of when Artificial Intelligence will overtake humans in performing tasks at work. Prior to the survey, the term “High-level machine intelligence”
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