managerialism 
noun [mass noun]
Belief in or reliance on the use of professional managers in administering or planning an activity: if we are panicked into yet greater depths of managerialism, a great opportunity will be lost...
- It is an ideology that is backed by managerialism, the belief that commercial management principles have the answers to all organisational problems.
- As somebody believing that managerialism is inimical to professionalism, I find this theory entirely plausible.
- The managerialism of the current university system has meant that Internet-based pedagogy has been focussed on design issues, rather than rationale, intentions or applications.
Derivatives
managerialist
- He observed that the rise of managerialist politics, with its focus on administration and delivery, had left a dangerous vacuum which was increasingly being occupied by politicians with simple solutions for complex problems.
- Hollowed-out governments were unwilling to question their own managerialist mantras and pushed privatisation as the only way.
- The limits of a managerialist approach were cruelly exposed in May.