micromanager

American  

[mahy-kroh-man-ij-er] / ˈmaɪ kroʊˌmæn ɪdʒ ər /

noun

• micromanagers
  plural

1. a person who tends to micromanage.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• micromanagers
  plural

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Here’s the professional way to manage a micromanager.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

Analysts have called Syrskiy a micromanager who prefers top-down decision-making to the horizontal structures promoted by today’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization militaries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

"The role of a traditional niche may be more in line with a micromanager -- instructing cells, 'You can be a stem cell, but only one particular type'," explained Mann.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2025

Maybe being a micromanager and a little uptight weren’t such horrible things after all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024

Watson was a micromanager with a hand in every pot.

From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024

This week, we’re talking about micromanagers — and how to deal with them.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

Lots of people have worked for micromanagers at one point or another, but this boss took lack of trust to a new and deeply paranoid level:

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2018

And how can you establish serious cultural value while still serving the corporate micromanagers at Disney — owners of Marvel since 2009?

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2018

In “Office Space,” it was the micromanagers who turned a central aspiration of the American dream — white-collar work — into a fluorescent-lit nightmare.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2017

And, although this makes sense to a certain degree, we’re curious if there are really that many bad managers on the loose—the egomaniacs, the narcissists, the micromanagers, the yellers, and the list could go on.

From Forbes ● Sep. 11, 2014