self-management
noun [mass noun]
1Management of or by oneself; the taking of responsibility for one’s own behaviour and well-being: encourage self-management of diabetes by providing information on diet, injection timing and technique...
- Parental supervision is needed for young children, but progressive responsibility for self-management is given with advancing maturity.
- Performance management is central to self-management.
- The course students attended introduced the concepts of health promotion, lifestyle behaviors, self-management, and other general health and wellness information.
1.1The distribution of political control to individual regions of a state, especially as a form of socialism practised by its own members.Having broken with the Soviet Union in 1948, Yugoslavia introduced a milder version of socialism that was based on common ownership and self-management....
- In the aftermath of assimilation, and then integration, self-determination and self-management became the central terms of policy.
Derivatives
self-managing
- As educators we need to recognise that the world for young people has altered dramatically and that schooling also must change to develop self-managing individuals.
- Functioning more as self-managing enterprises than pure public utilities, the water plants no longer receive direct government subsidies.
- I can see the blogosphere as a big online community/message board that is made up of self-managing interest groups.
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