managerial class
Supervisors and bosses
The managerial class comprises professionals who direct, coordinate, and administer organizations without owning them—executives, administrators, and supervisors who occupy positions between owners and workers.
The term often carries critical undertones, suggesting a distinct social stratum with its own interests and worldview: The managerial class favors credentialism and procedural solutions.
Sometimes expanded to professional-managerial class.
- executiveSenior organizational leader
- white-collarOffice work designation
- corporateOf or relating to companies
- eliteSuperior select group
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
hierarchy · suits · business casual · boardroom · corner office · professional · technocrat · administrator · boss · performance review · climbing · ladder · glass ceiling · rat race · MBA · privileged · comfortable · suburban
- classessubclass, superclass, underclass, caste, tier
- social classesnobles, aristocrats, underclass, peasants, elite
- British Classaristocrats, gentry, peerage, commoners, nobility
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- social classstratum, bourgeoisie, proletariat, underclass, elite
managerial classworking class
Manual laborers collectively
labor · proletariat · workers · rank and file · blue-collar workers
managerial classbourgeoisie
Capitalist ownership class
proprietors · shareholders · owners · capital · ruling class
manage, manager, managerial, management, manageable, unmanageable, managing, managed, mismanage