management
n. 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 (see the Bibliography in
appendix C).