micromanagerial

But it also enables parents to keep track of a kid's academic progress -- or lack of progress -- in a heretofore unthinkably micromanagerial way.

Edline--Success or Scourge? Matt Johnston 2007

The Shemp who once mocked John gradually becomes the same sort of person he once detested: a micromanagerial busybody, parading around with his notepad as if it's a royal scepter and he's been ordained to keep the riffraff in line.

A King of Infinite Space Steele, Allen 1997

Tocqueville is at his most penetrating when he describes the psyche of the citizen laboring under a kind of ubiquitous, micromanagerial regime at which he simultaneously feels envy and pride.

The American Scene 2010

So Reaganite competition, according to Enron, required new micromanagerial rules about industrial organization and the de-facto nationalization of the transmission systems by officials who'd have to answer to Enron.

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run 2009

"So why does the Legislature waste its time on such micromanagerial foolishness - its minute control of horse racing rules being another example?

The Roundup 2008