The “management team” isn’t the “decision making” team. It’s a support function. You may want to call them administration instead of management, which will keep them from getting too big for their britches.
Administrators aren’t supposed to make the hard decisions. They don’t know enough.
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/02/the-management-team-guest-post-from-joel-spolsky.html