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Management, especially interaction between a manager and subordinates, is difficult to accurately capture due to cultural, linguistic, and structural aspects. Building knowledge and understanding of management in research in this field of study, depends on the consideration of several essential aspects. This paper presents theoretical foundations for creating knowledge about the activities of team managers using a system of organisational terms, and showcases how linguistic analysis can be applied to enhance findings in the area of management studies. The paper discusses the results of an experiment carried out with management students within the field of project planning. The students played the roles of team managers and were asked to plan a specific project using the following online management tools: a goaler (to set up goals) and a tasker (to describe tasks). All activities of experiment participants were recorded by these tools. The data gathered during the experiment enabled us to answer several research questions: (Q1) Which elements of the plan are changed and how often are they changed until the plan is accomplished? (Q2) Which cognitive processes take place when managers are given a complex project to plan? (Q3) Are there any dominant linguistic routes when planning the project? (Q4) Is it possible to develop a pattern of (human) manager linguistic behaviour in order to replace human managers with robots? (Q5) How can the linguistic findings be utilised in order to optimise and automate the formulation of tasks and goals in the future? The methodology of the paper consists of a literature review, an experiment with students, and the findings of linguistic analysis of manager behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]