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This statement is wrong. Although management can be called science but not as an exact or pure science like physics or chemistry. It is important to apply the characteristics of science to management in order to find out whether management is a science or not. Following are the main points:
1. Systematized Body of Knowledge - It is necessary for science to be a systematized body of knowledge. Management is also a systematized body of knowledge because it has its own theory and principle which are developed by the management experts after years of research.
2. Principles Based on Experiments - After applying this characteristics of science to management, we find that development of management, took years for the collection of facts, their analysis and experiment.
3. Universal validity - Scientific principles are based on truth and they can be applied every time and in every situation. In the field of management the principles of management are considered to be based on truth and they too can be applied anywhere and in every situation.
Conclusion - The subject matter of management is human being who is an intelligent and sensitive being and whose behaviour or conduct changes according to the changing situations. Therefore, no permanent principles like the principles of physics and chemistry can be enunciated in relation to his conduct or behaviour. So the management cannot be called a pure science, it is an applied Science or social science because it deals with human behaviour.
