Authors
I.N. DROGOBYTSKY
Abstract
If the formation of economic science as an independent area of research is associated with the beginning of the 17th century, then the allocation of organizational management as a separate discipline in the framework of this teaching is dated to the 30s of the last century. It took more than 300 years to understand that management is an organic component of economic science, having its own subject of scientific research. Unfortunately, it should be noted that the scientific economic community is still far from consensus in the noted subject area. First of all, there is no consensus on the nature of management, the nature of managerial activity and its measurability. The currently dominant hypothesis about the informational nature of management has not received a proper metric development. In terms of the categories “information”, “entropy” and concepts derived from them, the information version of management in terms of measurements did not go beyond the nameless interval [0, 1]. Variants of managerial theory based on it are purely qualitative in nature i.e. do not have a metric component. In this article, in addition to the informational nature of management, its energy basis is substantiated. Such an extension of the perspective of the scientific review of nature and the subject of management opens up prospects for using the well-developed metric component of energy for the measurement of managerial activity. True, until the essential nature of managerial energy has been established, such borrowing is possible only at the level of key concepts and soft calculations.
Keywords
energy imperatives, energy potential, management team, managerial authority, engineering management.
