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managerial, a.|mænɪˈdʒɪərɪəl|
[f. as prec. + -ial.]
Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, a manager, esp. the manager of a theatre. In more recent use esp. of a manager of a commercial enterprise.
1767A. Campbell Lexiph. 145 The latter were to be set off with all our inimitable Garrick's managerial art,..and judicious cast of parts. 1807in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. XI. 370 They hail a scheme which promises them relief from managerial neglect and popular damnation. 1854Dickens Hard T. ii. i, She usually embellished with her genteel presence a managerial board-room over the public office. 1895Times (weekly ed.) 27 Sept. 778/1 To force the note of approbation at the close, by means of a managerial speech. 1895Tablet 10 Aug. 230 The question of the managerial authority has attracted a great deal of public attention. 1912F. W. Raffety Modern Business Pract. II. ii. i. 204 Management..involves not only the forces of production but careful consideration of the results to be obtained... It is this latter purpose which distinguishes the man with managerial ability from the purely technical man. 1924J. Stamp Stud. Current Probl. Finance & Govt. ii. 43 It [sc. the Excess Profits Duty Act] conferred quite a considerable number of discretions to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, such as..the amount to be allowed as managerial remuneration. 1940H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood iv. iii. 379 They would soon draw plenty of recruits and assistants from the managerial class in the big trade machines. 1941J. Burnham Managerial Revolution vi. 70 The theory of the managerial revolution asserts..the following: Modern society has been organized through a..set of major economic, social, and political institutions which we call capitalist... At the present time these institutions..are undergoing..transformation... Within the new social structure a different social group..—the managers—will be the dominant..class. 1955P. F. Drucker Pract. Managem. xxii. 268 Opportunities for participation that will give him [sc. the worker] a managerial vision. 1958Listener 30 Oct. 685/1 The salaried middle class of professional, technical, and managerial people. 1973Amer. Speech 1969 XLIV. 268 Managerial positions are unquestionably the highest occupational level of the three.
Hence manaˈgerialism, belief in or the art of conducting or planning business or other enterprises by the use of managerial techniques; manaˈgerialist, an adherent of managerialism; also attrib. or as adj.; manaˈgerially adv., in the manner or capacity of, or in relation to, a manager.
1882Daily News 9 Mar. 2/3 The Croydon March Meeting, which finished as well as it commenced, managerially and financially speaking. 1902Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 10/3 He was..managerially connected with a London theatre. 1946‘G. Orwell’ James Burnham 5 According to Burnham..‘managerialism’ has reached its fullest development in the U.S.S.R. Ibid. 6 He describes the New Deal as ‘primitive managerialism’. [Burnham did not use the word managerialism in The Managerial Revolution.—Ed.] 1952K. R. Popper Open Society (ed. 2) I. 4 A lapse into totalitarianism (or perhaps into ‘managerialism’). 1965H. I. Ansoff Corporate Strategy (1968) iii. 40 A ‘managerialist’ point of view came into being which..subjected the microeconomic theory to thorough criticism. Ibid., The managerialists have offered a number of substitute explanations of the behaviour of the firm. 1966Harper's Mag. June 67 Many remained caught in the irrelevancies of such questions as whether the Soviet Union was a ‘degenerate workers' state’ or a ‘managerialist bureaucracy’. 1970Guardian Weekly 14 Feb. 8 No doubt some cynics and managerialists will deride them [sc. local city councils] as ‘mere talking-shops’. 1973Human World Feb. 7 The anxiety Mr Maddox senses in the environmentalists comes to no more than a yearning for a universal poeticized prosperity. This they find compatible with a beneficent world-wide managerialism. |