nonmanagement
Workers without authority
Nonmanagement describes employees or positions that don't involve supervising others or making organizational decisions.
It distinguishes regular workers from managers and executives: nonmanagement staff, nonmanagement roles.
The term appears frequently in labor contexts, where nonmanagement employees may be eligible for union membership or overtime pay that managers are not.
Organization's workers collectively
- employeesPaid staff members
- workersPeople doing jobs
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- frontlineCombat's forward position
hourly · blue-collar · clerical · crew · associates · operatives · personnel · subordinates
Free from external control
- contractorHired construction professional
- freelancerSelf-employed service provider
- consultantProfessional advice provider
- self-employedWorking independently, not hired
solopreneur · unaffiliated · autonomous · entrepreneur · outsourced · temp · casual · project-based
Ordinary organization members
- volunteersUnpaid willing workers
- activismDirect effort for reform
- localOf this area
- participatoryInvolving active contribution
collective · solidarity · coalition · movement · advocacy · populism · base · membership
Independent management of affairs
- self-directionControlling one's own choices
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
- empowermentGaining authority or confidence
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
independence · self-reliance · leaderless · horizontal · non-hierarchical · bottom-up · distributed · participatory
staff
Organization's workers collectively
frontline · hourly · blue-collar · clerical · crew · associates · operatives · personnel · subordinates · rank-and-file
independent
Free from external control
- contractorHired construction professional
- freelancerSelf-employed service provider
- consultantProfessional advice provider
self-employed · solopreneur · unaffiliated · autonomous · entrepreneur · outsourced · temp · casual · project-based
rank-and-file
Ordinary organization members
- volunteersUnpaid willing workers
- activismDirect effort for reform
- localOf this area
participatory · collective · solidarity · coalition · movement · advocacy · populism · base · membership · ground-level
self-governance
Independent management of affairs
- self-directionControlling one's own choices
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
- empowermentGaining authority or confidence
self-determination · independence · self-reliance · leaderless · horizontal · non-hierarchical · bottom-up · distributed · participatory · consensus
nonmanagementmanagement
Organizing and directing resources
executive · supervisory · managerial · leadership · administration
nonmanagementadministrative
Related to organization management
decision-making · strategic · corporate leadership · brass · front office
manage, manager, management, managing, mismanage, unmanageable, mismanagement, managerial, mismanaged