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2023-01-16 My research

Why can’t you buy yourself a Steve Jobs? Part 3

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

2023-01-13 My research

Why can’t you buy yourself a Steve Jobs? Part 2

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

2023-01-09 Opinions and news

Why can’t you buy yourself a Steve Jobs? Part 1

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

2023-01-02 Opinions and news

Could your boss be a robot?

Have you ever wondered what your job would be like if your boss was a robot? If you are the boss – how much would your day change if you could buy a robot manager? And finally – if you set up two identical companies, selling the same products, which one would be more efficient and achieve better results – the first, managed by a human, or the second, whose boss would be a robot? I asked myself these questions