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  • noun The fact or discipline of running things according to managerial techniques.

Etymologies

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From managerial +‎ -ism.

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Examples

  • I think most managerialism is donkey dross and have argued why as an academic.

    Leaders TV Debate – Law & Order Summary SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • But more important, the idea of managerialism has been used to whitewash the existing system.

    Same Old New Class Weisskopf, Walter A. 1967

  • Yet plenty of posters joined Clegg and co in shouting "foul", which shows how much the culture of adversarial politics - which tests the theory and practice of proposed legislation - has succumbed to the kind of managerialism that has produced so much bad legislation under successive governments.

    The Guardian World News Michael White 2011

  • Rid the NHS of the ridiculous "managerialism" so beloved of New Labour and efficiency would increase immediately.

    Life and style | guardian.co.uk Anushka Asthana 2010

  • Bootcamp-style discipline may also be equally unproductive, say many educators, with a top-down managerialism, fostering resentment and alienation for those deemed to fail.

    The crisis facing Britain's education system 2011

  • Fighting talk aplenty, for this is now, say the academics, "a debate about authoritarian managerialism versus academic values".

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • So it's hardly surprising that much of the coverage has revealed a kind of New Labour managerialism that first sneers and then tries to inject a target-driven businesslike approach.

    A little bit of Ealing around St Paul's | Yvonne Roberts 2011

  • This is part of managerialism that seems to have infected many police FORCES. They are no longer police officers but senior managers, line managers, stake holders, clients etc.

    Hayley Adamson is dead but Northumbria wins Gold! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • In place of desiccated managerialism, Salmond and his finance minister John Swinney have come up with an economic strategy that serves also as a job-creation policy and a metaphor for national renewal.

    Can Scotland pay its own way? 2011

  • In fact the batladies are likely just commenting on what managerialism and target chasing has done to the British police in recent years. on topic: CYA shocker!

    Police Search Too Few White People SHOCK!! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

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