High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Managerialism is the ideological principle on which the economic, social, and political order of advanced industrialized societies is actually based. Society is made up of organizations, corporations, associations, and so forth - not individuals. Social decisions are a consequence of the interactions of the managers of the social units - not the will of the people, the demands of consumers, or the needs of workers. This arises the notion that societies are equivalent to the sum of the transactions made by the managements of organizations.