Have you seen the amazing humanoid robots that don’t look like humans at all, but perform the same actions?

Lately, I’ve been believing more and more that an artificial manager will look like a human, move like a human, and maybe one day you won’t be able to distinguish it from your former boss at all. When I conducted experiments with students in 2021, led by an artificial manager built from my TransistorsHead.com system, the manager on the screen looked like the one in Figure 1. Figure 1. TransistorsHead.com’s artificial manager interface In Figure 1, in the right left

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How to measure a manager’s leadership styles with management tools? Part 3

In the previous parts, I described what concepts and divisions of management styles we took into account and why. So what results did we get? Let me remind you of the two hypotheses we posed before the study: We conducted the study on June 29-30, 2021 and lasted 36 hours. The group of observation participants consisted of 6 2nd degree students from the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, working in two equal virtual teams, each with a designated team

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How to measure a manager’s leadership styles with management tools? Part 2

In my previous post on measuring leadership styles to use knowledge about a manager to simulate his performance and consequently replace him with an artificial manager, I wrote about the first concepts and divisions of leadership styles. Now I will show what division of management styles we took into account and why. First, we looked at the classification of management styles according to R. Likert. He distinguished the following styles: exploitative authoritarian, benevolent authoritarian, consultative and participative (Likert 1958). Such

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How to measure a manager’s leadership styles with management tools? Part 1

Two years ago, we wrote an article with Dr. Adrian Pyszka from the University of Economics in Katowice on how to measure managerial styles using my TransistorsHead.com managerial tools. We published this article as part of the XXV conference “INDUSTRY 4.0 A MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTION ENGINEERING” organized by the Polish Production Management Association, the Polish Innovation Management Association and the Production Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Why did we consider this topic important in the context of

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How to gain knowledge of what a manager really does? Part 4

In this post, the last describing how to acquire knowledge about the work of a manager, I will present in a slightly different way the layout of organizational sizes and online managerial tools on the TransistorsHead.com platform. The way is as follows. A human manager solves organizational problems. To solve each of them he uses a more or less formal managerial technique, that is, he performs certain activities. In order for these activities to actually occur, he must use some

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