Getting the Academic Management Concept More Practically Perceived: An Epistemologically-Extended Approach

Despite of the widespread management practicing everywhere in organizations, a grantee that this practicing was always correctly occurred has never been established. The justification to such an argumentative issue was too much hub revolving around the managerial background of the organizations managers. Do all practitioners of management are originally specialist and/or well qualified in this area? Whether the answer is far logically no, do the organizations administered by those who are management non specialist practitioners could effectively perform to the extent that may allow them to play their role as it is expected? Answering these questions, this research is striving to facilitate presenting the correct managerial knowledge and/or concept to those managers who are management non-specialists. Fulfilling this task it highlights the role to be done by epistemology, as the field of knowledge that’s tackling the knowledge philosophy, origins, limits, foundations and sources so as to specify, by the use of knowledge sufficiency/ insufficiency criteria, to what extent the espoused knowledge is true or false. In other words, the research focus was to replace the incorrect concept of management, that’s espoused by management non-specialist practitioners based upon their own opinions rather than the sufficient knowledge, with an academically correct one that’s based upon a sufficient knowledge of the area. As so, within the context of a methodical framework a literature review has to be conducted for theoretically justi~ing the research subject by showing somehow the negative gap to fill up. At the same direction an exploratory study was conducted first for showing that the governmental hospitals’ failure to play the role expected by them, second for initially showing that this most probably occurs due to their top managers’ non-adoption to the correct management concept. A conceptual framework has been constituted to build a theo-hypothetical model. The concern was statistically testing a path of two interrelated hypotheses. One was to examine the relation between the failure of these hospitals to play the role expected by them and the non-adoption of their top-managers to the academically correct concept of management. The other was to examine whether the non-adoption of the top-managers to the academically correct concept of management is due to their need to get this concept epistemologically simplified rather than specifically specialized one or not. This was taken place through an empirical study, within which a stratified random sample of (214) sampling units, or doctors who are topmanaging the above mentioned governmental hospitals, has been targeted, as representatives of a geographically distributed homogenous research population of (539) individuals. Statistically verifying the correction of these two hypotheses it was concluded that there is a shortage in providing simply this concept to be easily considered. Particularly by those managers who are management non-specialist practitioners. The recommendation was basically to turn the attention of management authors to the use of epistemology for easily presenting the management concept, so as to get it more practically perceived and as a consequence widely adopted.