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Management is not considered as science as:

• Management deals with people and it is very difficult to predict there behaviour accurately since it is a social process therefore management cannot be considered as an exact science.
• Human Behaviour Cannot be subjected to laboratory experiments.
• Business is a dynamic activity, business situations and conditions keeps on changing therefore theories can be failed.
• Management  principles do not have universal applicability since there applications and rules has to be modified according to given situation.
• Business has to honour social ethics, norms, values no one can ignore these. Business has to follow ethics before principles.
• Methods of observations followed by mgt are not cent percent since the human element which is involved in it can never be treated as constant.
• Sometimes it is very difficult to establish cause & effect relationship as in chemistry and Physics.
• Relatively few managers are trained and experienced some of them even don't know the principles of the management.
• According to Earnest Dale," Management is a Soft Science."