How to gain knowledge of what a manager really does? Part 3

In order to build an artificial manager, we need to have explicit and implicit knowledge of what such a manager really does in his work with the team. Theoretically we know what we need, but practically it is very difficult to acquire such knowledge. This is hampered by traditional research methods in management science. Most research boils down to surveying managers to answer closed questions about what they have done in the past or how they work with their team.

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How to gain knowledge of what a manager really does? Part 2

In my previous post I wrote that it is easier to record the work of a car driver than the work of a manager, which is why we already have autonomous cars, but we can’t buy ourselves Steve Jobs. Let’s go further in our reflections and consider what kind of knowledge we expect about the work of a manager. What types of knowledge are useful to build an artificial manager? Following J. Baruk, we can list several aspects that knowledge

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How to gain knowledge of what a manager really does? Part 1

A few weeks ago I wrote about the limitations we face in finding out what a manager really does. These limitations arise for a simple reason: managerial activities tend to be cognitive, that is, a manager performs them in his or her head, and to a lesser extent, physical activities such as moving arms and legs. In conversations with managers, scientists and entrepreneurs, I often compare the work of a manager and that of a car driver. The question can

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Experimental results: will the artificial manager have a cultural identity?

I have already described the use of the system of organizational terms to measure what a manager really does, and consequently to build an artificial manager, in previous blog posts. Of course, the organizational size system itself is a methodological concept for how to study what a manager does. You still need managerial tools as measurement tools. I use TransistorsHead.com’s managerial tools in my studies of managers, but for the purpose of studying cultural identity, I made a small measurement

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Experimental results: how to use managerial tools to evaluate sound quality in film?

In 2019, with Dr. Adrian Robak, we used the organizational size system to perform an innovative study on… music. Yes! The use of the organizational magnitude system quite unusual, after all, I designed this concept to automate the work of a manager, but we decided that based on it I could build a tool for… taking notes on sound perception. That’s how Notetoday’s online tool was created, where you can jot down anything, but each note is another version of

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