self-managementn.
/ˌsɛlfˈmanᵻdʒm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈmænᵻdʒmənt/ 1. The taking of responsibility for one's own behaviour and well-being; (now frequently) management of one's disease or condition oneself.
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1683 in S. Annesley Contin. Morning-exercise Questions xxix. 927 Davids..Soul, fitted for God, and for self management, converses and improvements!
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 120 Self-experience is gained by analysis, by actual experiment, or by actual observation; either on Self-management, or on the Management of others.
1850 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 20 157 The want of intelligence and skill in self-management accompany the want of pecuniary means to procure the comforts and even the necessaries of life.
a1866 J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. (1870) vi. 116 Good self-management his highest aim.
1942 Times 21 Oct. 5/5 British men and women have an innate aptitude for self-management.
2016 Canberra Times (Nexis) 17 July a47 With good self-management and taking your medications properly, your asthma should be controlled enough so you are able to do as much exercise as you like.
2.
a. Management or control of a nation, organization, group, etc., by itself; the distribution of political power to individual groups or regions, as opposed to control by a central authority.
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society > authority > rule or government > autonomy > [noun]
autonomy1591
self-governing1619
self-government1647
self-rulea1683
autarchy1691
autocracy of the people1792
self-management1809
self-control1812
self-governance1848
Home Rule1858
autonomism1867
merdeka1947
1809 Examiner 5 Feb. 93/2 We had nothing to do with the internal self-management of Spain.
1821 Morning Chron. 20 Dec. Our old Colonies grew up and flourished under the more healthful system of self management.
1909 North-China Herald 22 May 430/1 Every fresh concession that can be made to Koreans in the direction of self-management will strengthen the foundations of the new order.
1992 A. Black Polit. Thought in Europe, 1250–1450 85 The village unit often retained some collective rights... The tendency towards a division of political powers..was recognised..by jurists in their discussions of the limited rights of self-management.
2017 Centralian Advocate (Austral.) (Nexis) 6 June 24 What we [sc. Indigenous Australians] really wanted..was a treaty. For self determination, self management... For permanent control and enjoyment of our ancestral lands.
b. Politics. A system of production in which workers have collective responsibility for the management of the project or enterprise on which they are employed; this as a socialist economic theory or practice. Cf. autogestion n.Originally and often applied to the former Yugoslavian state.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [noun] > attitudes or policies
opportunism1902
social chauvinism1919
ouvrierism1950
self-management1953
workerism1953
1953 Amer. Slavic & East European Rev. 12 194 Under this new form of more direct social ownership..the economic enterprises are given..autonomy, while the..workers and employees..receive the right of self-management.
1975 A. Krešić in B. Horvat & M. Markovi Self-governing Socialism I. xiv. 445 In the motley company of the political right-wing, self-management is considered an anarchistic social experiment.
1981 C. McClintock Peasant Cooperatives & Polit. Change in Peru ii. 30 Self-management advocates suggest that enterprise democracy plays a role in developing workers' solidarity and participation that the union cannot.
1992 R. Eckersley Environmentalism & Polit. Theory 170 Ecoanarchists argue that decentralization, local democracy, and human-scale institutions maximise opportunities for cooperative self-management.
2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 July 32/4 In Yugoslavia's case..[communism was] a chaotic mixture of central planning and decentralization called self-management.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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