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.
- lose one's head
- lose one's heart to
- lose one's life
- lose one's mind (or one's marbles)
- lose one's (or the) way
- lose one's rag
- lose one's shirt
- lose one's shit
- lose (or keep) one's figure
- lose out
- lose patience (or lose one's patience)
- loser
- lose sight of
- lose sleep
- lose the (or one's) thread
- lose the plot
- lose touch
- Los Gatos
- losing battle
- losingest
- loss
- loss adjuster
- loss-leader
- lossless
- loss-maker