managerialism

/ ˌmænɪˈdʒɪərɪəˌlɪzəm /

noun

1. the application of managerial techniques of businesses to the running of other organizations, such as the civil service or local authorities

Other Word Forms

• managerialist noun

Example Sentences

They are the alternative to Tory "mindless destruction", Labour "managerialism" and nationalist "empty, populist solutions", Ms Dodds will say.

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What must also be noted is that the governing structure of the university is not just top-heavy with administrators but is largely shaped by a form of managerialism modeled after business culture.

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This should be fertile ground for Labour but, Cruddas says, the party has lost its ability to speak to working people in a way that means anything to them, which began when Tony Blair swapped his early idealism for "soulless managerialism".

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The theory of the Kamala Harris candidacy, whose nosedive was the subject of a withering pre-mortem from three of my colleagues over Thanksgiving, was that she was well suited to accomplish this unification through the elixir of her female/minority/professional class identities — that she would embody the party’s diversity much as Barack Obama did before her, and subsume the party’s potential tensions under the benevolent stewardship of a multicultural managerialism.

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But by the 1970s, managerialism became synonymous in investment circles with immovable executives who were running bloated businesses more for their own benefit than for their shareholders.

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