middle manager• There is increasing evidence of disillusionment among middle managers which goes beyond the long-established mid-career crisisliterature.• How real are many so-calledmanagementposts in schools, e.g. deputy heads in primary schools and middle managers in secondary schools?• Computers are belatedly replacing thousands of clericalstaff and middle managers.• And unfortunately for middle managers, the encroachment of technology has coincided with a less autocratic approach to management.• In the organizational hierarchy of the past, middle managers were the people who remembered things, who passed on corporate culture.• Among those who face cutbacks: general supervisors, middle managers and productionworkers.• Third, the rest of the middle managers are nervous.• The middle managers are gone, and they are not coming back.