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What social processes are present where the artificial manager will work?

In a previous post, I described that when designing an artificial manager, you must realize that his work environment will be very difficult – a social group, and in it people with unmeasurable group identity, interpersonal relationships, persuasion skills and so on. What social processes dominate the social group in business that an artificial manager must participate in? To answer this question, let’s answer the question “what do the individuals of this collectivity”, that is, the participants of the organization,

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How have management styles been used to study the work of a manager?

Management styles are the third theoretical concept that researchers and practitioners have tried to depict the work of a manager. On the one hand, the idea coincides with the intuition we use when we think of our own boss – either he has an autocratic or participative style. But again – what does it give us when we want to design a robot manager to manage a specific project? It doesn’t give us anything. Knowing about a single person, what

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How have managerial roles been used in studies of managerial work?

What about managerial roles? This way of looking at managerial work has also been very popular for years. Many researchers have used this perspective, as Mintzberg’s roles offer great potential for learning what a manager should do. However, they still don’t provide answers to what he or she actually does, so they are not directly suitable for automating a manager’s work. How important the different managerial roles are is shown in this short excerpt from an interview with Steve Jobs.

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How have managerial skills been used in studies of managerial work?

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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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

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