What exactly is management?

Interested to get other peoples views on this.
Is a Sports Editor management?
I mean most of those guys worked their way up through the newspaper and they tend to understand where reporters are coming from, but how do others view them, management or not?
What's it actually like being a Sports Editor, I'd imagine you could get squeezed from both ends?

 

SEs are management. As are ASEs.

 

I'd say if you have an E attached to your title you are management, but to what degree depends on your shop and the size. I'm sure some SEs have more pull than people with the same job at a different paper, but that all depends on how the ME or EE looks at sports and the section.

 

Copy editors usually are not management, though there are places that try to make them so they don't have to pay overtime.

 

What is management? Ask Cindybj.

 

I am managing to continue to be employed as a sports editor, so I suppose you can say it's a management position in more than one sense.

Of course, I have held the S.E. title in shops with no other full-time sports personnel, which makes the management status rather problematic.

 

Don't most states have a law prohibiting putting someone on salary unless they're directly in charge of X amount of people?

 

I'm in the management-without-staff class.

 

I'm an SE, with a staff of .5 and some freelancers (and my boss stresses the word "free").

There are manager meetings on Monday at 8 a.m. Two years solid, never been asked to, or why I didn't, attend.

Hence, I'm not management.

 

I think most real definitions of management, in union shops, is someone who can hire and fire and make budgetary decisions.

 

I would consider my former SE a supervisor, not a manager.

The difference I see is that a supervisor can do some tasks, such as give performance reviews, set schedules, etc., but has no control over hiring/firing and money. So the ME was a manager.

But that was just my experience.