management

1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their

distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure

to manage (see also suit). Spoken derisively, as in

"*Management* decided that ...".

2. Mythically, a vast bureaucracy responsible for all the

world's minor irritations. Hackers' satirical public notices

are often signed "The Mgt"; this derives from the

"Illuminatus!" novels.

[Jargon File]

(1995-02-28)