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- Title
THE ROLE OF THE PROFESSIONAL IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE.
- Authors
Feeney, George J.
- Abstract
The article discusses the role of the professional in operations research and management science. The professional in operations research and management science has the thankless task of constructing a bridge between two virtually disjointed activities: science and management. Science confines its attention to phenomena that can be measured, relationships that can be represented quantitatively, causal chains whose internal consistency can be logically verified, and conclusions that can be tested experimentally. This discipline is the key to the vitality and generality of scientific truths and to the epidemic growth of scientific knowledge. If the present state of scientific knowledge is unfavorable to the professional's task of bridging science and management, the present state of managerial art is even more unfavorable. Management, concerned with the maintenance and growth of living institutions, must solve impossible problems like the ones mentioned above day after day. It is inevitable that management has developed an elaborate, if informal, philosophy to rationalize and dignify this otherwise distressing process of meeting impossible problems with indefensible solutions.
- Subjects
PROFESSIONAL employees; OPERATIONS research; MANAGEMENT science; SCIENTIFIC knowledge; MANAGERIAL economics; INDUSTRIAL engineering
- Publication
Interfaces, 1971, Vol 1, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
0092-2102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/inte.1.6.1