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After reading this essay you will learn about:- 1. Definition and
Concept of Management Science 2. Historical Development of
Management Science 3. Characteristics 4. Tools.
(ii) Standardization,
(iv) Cooperation.
During the ten years just after World War II, a great deal of
management science was performed under the name of operations
research. The influx of physical scientists many of whom were
unacquainted with modern management administration into war
technology and the pressures of total war with new and terrible
weapons gave rise to a rediscovery of a kind of pragmatic scientific
management. This merged with an increasingly popular acceptance of
statistical quality control in America and the practical development of
high-speed electronic calculators to give impetus to the operations-
research approach.
2. Heuristic programming.
3. Management games.