[enraged_camel]

>>This is the problem: manager types >>There is no such thing, it is an absurd invention.

Of course there is. Management as a career track attracts certain types of people, just like engineering. Every manager is different but they share a lot of common traits. Hence, "manager types."

[fit2rule]

These 'types' exist only to allow academia administrivia to be more open for profit. There is not such a thing as a 'manager type of personality', or 'a tech type' - this is an invention, utterly arbitrary, and a product of a corrupt education system that allows such a mythos to occur in order to cater to industrialization of human economy.

[thisGuysAccount]

There might well not be a "managerial archetype".

Each company will have desired traits in their managers, whether they go for the servant leader or the authoritarian delegator, their desired traits will limit who they view as suitable for managerial positions. There will be "manager types," and to people who have worked for that company for 10, 15, 20 years, that is the "manager type" for all companies, in their view.

There are also some traits that _are_ required for managerial work, certainly not enough to define a personality type, but without them, people could not function in a delegating, influencing, or persuading position. They're the traits that allow people to perform those functions.

I'd certainly be willing to concede the point that those aren't even personality traits, but skillful applications of personality that could be developed.

TLDR: I agree with you, but there's enough nuance in what "types" could mean that you're looking at a discussion about very subtle things that many people might not consider at first.

[fit2rule]

At the base of typecasting/stereotyping is prejudice. If you prejudge someone as being 'a manager type' before they've done any actual, you know, management - then you are prejudicial in your approach. Just because someone doesn't wear a tie and conform to social normatives, does not mean they cannot do things "typically associated with" socially-constructed norms, or 'types'. This is the biggest problem with manager-culture today: that bigotry and prejudice is still very much a factor in human interaction.