managerialism
Efficiency-obsessed organizational philosophy
Managerialism is the belief that professional managers and management techniques should control organizations, often at the expense of workers, professionals, or other stakeholders.
The term is usually critical, suggesting that management practices have become ends in themselves rather than means to organizational goals: The university's creeping managerialism has faculty drowning in assessments and metrics.
It implies bureaucratic expansion, performance measurement, and top-down control displacing professional judgment or democratic governance.
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
- privatizationState sells public assets
- marketizationConverting to commerce-driven systems
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
- corporatizationRestructuring as a corporation
outsourcing · technocracy · deprofessionalization · quantification · instrumentalism · economism · McDonaldization
Overseeing people or processes
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- micromanagementExcessive supervisory control
- top-downDirected from highest level
- commandAuthoritative instruction given
authority · dominance · discipline · enforcement · conformity · directive · surveillance · monitoring
Ranked authority structure
- executiveSenior organizational leader
- CEOTop corporate officer
- boardroomCorporate decision venue
- strategyPlanned approach to goals
enterprise · profitability · shareholders · stakeholders · headquarters · synergy · deliverables · jargon
Output relative to input
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
- performanceCarrying out a task
- metricsStandards for assessment
- benchmarkingMeasuring against top performers
lean · agile · streamlining · cost-cutting · workflow · output · KPIs · throughput
Administrative written tasks
- proceduresSet methods for tasks
- formalitiesConventional procedural requirements
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- complianceAdhering to requirements
regulations · protocol · standardization · centralization · officialdom · record-keeping · directorates · secretariat
Adopted principle of action
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- stewardshipResponsible care of entrusted things
- institutionalOf formal establishments
- public-sectorState-run employment realm
legislation · accountability · transparency · reform · regulatory · decision-making · ministerial · quango
neoliberalism
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
- privatizationState sells public assets
- marketizationConverting to commerce-driven systems
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
corporatization · outsourcing · technocracy · deprofessionalization · quantification · instrumentalism · economism · McDonaldization
supervision
Overseeing people or processes
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- micromanagementExcessive supervisory control
- top-downDirected from highest level
command · authority · dominance · discipline · enforcement · conformity · directive · surveillance · monitoring · appraisal
hierarchy
Ranked authority structure
strategy · enterprise · profitability · shareholders · stakeholders · headquarters · synergy · deliverables · jargon · consultant
productivity
Output relative to input
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
- performanceCarrying out a task
- metricsStandards for assessment
benchmarking · lean · agile · streamlining · cost-cutting · workflow · output · KPIs · throughput · rationalization
paperwork
Administrative written tasks
- proceduresSet methods for tasks
- formalitiesConventional procedural requirements
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
compliance · regulations · protocol · standardization · centralization · officialdom · record-keeping · directorates · secretariat · box-ticking
policy
Adopted principle of action
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- stewardshipResponsible care of entrusted things
- institutionalOf formal establishments
public-sector · legislation · accountability · transparency · reform · regulatory · decision-making · ministerial · quango · trustee
managerialismprofessional autonomy
Worker's independent decision-making authority
self-governance · self-direction · flat hierarchy · grassroots organization · leaderlessness
managerialismworker control
Employees directing enterprise decisions
syndicalism · socialism · guild socialism · workplace democracy · mutualism
manage, manager, management, managed, managing, manageable, managers, mismanage, unmanageable