Global Journal of Management and Business Research, A: Administration and Management, Volume 23 Issue 1

Administration: Science, Art or Technique? A Reflective Look at the Epistemological Status of the Administration 54 Global Journal of Management and Business Research Volume XXIII Issue I Version I Year 2023 ( ) A © 2023 Global Journals this is precisely the disciplinary object. Currently, the administration is assumed as an independent discipline, of a practical and social nature, oriented to the management of the resources of an organization to achieve its objectives. So, administrative functions are exercised. Characteristics of distinctive features of the administration previously understood as epistemic obstacles do not allow it to appropriate the adjective science. So, it is clear that this does not imply that it cannot be considered with the adjective scientific but within its canons. In addition, we cannot forget the modern postulates that speak of the end of science, or better yet, the emergence of ready approaches to address study phenomena that from the traditional perspective are not possible to consider in terms of validity and scientific reliability. According to the above, we could assent to the consideration of the administration in terms of Bungian socio-technical, as long as its daring conjunction as art and discipline with a scientific nature is recognized, an assertion that could also become a research problem with all the rigor that this requires. This is how we conceive what could be understood as an epistemology of administration in terms of a systemic framework in the sense that it represents a system of ideas that give rise to knowledge and administrative theories from which specific methods or strategies arise to investigate the administration. nature of the organizational reality, whose representation allows to give an epistemic connotation that transcends its conception as a science, as a technique, or as an art, but as a discipline in which the scientific, technical, sensitive, and intuitive criteria of the administration converge. This is how, representing the administration from the fundamentals and approach of systems theory is very accurate since it arose to explain the principles of the organization of many natural phenomena and is currently applied to knowledge. of many other realities, both natural and social, etc. Therefore, an organization applying the primitive principles of administration creates and forms this framework of all the parts towards the whole and the whole towards the parts, managing to establish a relational synergy of the entities of this great systemic environment seen from a holistic position, This allows us to have a perception of the organization as a flexible open system that depends on changes in the environment and technology, thus the evolution of the administration will depend on how it transcends the path of modernity and postmodernity towards efficiency and effectiveness. of the proposed results of the organizations. In this sense, the administrative and organizational as a living system is a description and abstract representation of relationships that identify its components in autopoiesis, that is, a general pattern of organization in its multiple dependencies that allow building its autonomy. The previously described evidence is that in each case they raise precepts and methods that ultimately revolve around the same thing, to contribute to the ultimate goal of the administration. Due to the above, we conceive a new way of knowing, or of representing the epistemic status of the administration, and therefore, of apprehending the discipline, which allows its admission as a science, art, and technique, without exclusions, where the perspectives rational and relative, mentioned above, act as sub-systems of an epistemic macro-system, in which the fibers are not arranged randomly, but woven according to a canvas, of a synthetic unit, in which each part contributes to the set, from which you can perceive and know the features or elements of the administrative phenomenon (it is theoretical, philosophical and methodological heterogeneity, considered as epistemic obstacles), but not simplify or fully apprehend due to its complex nature. R eferences R éférences R eferencias 1. Abbagnano, N. (1951). Dictionary of Philosophy. Economic Culture Fund, Mexico. 2. Barba, A. (July-December, 2013). Administration, organization theory and organizational studies. 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