According to research by technical and engineering recruiter CBSbutler, staff are becoming increasingly disillusioned with so called management jargon.
Almost a third of people said that they used jargon and ‘management speak’ to liven up dull meetings and over a third thought that jargon made them look more credible. However the overwhelming majority thought that jargon was pretentious to the point of being comical with one respondent comparing his manager to David Brent!
The workplace is full of clichés, buzzwords and industry jargon that often leads to a "disconnect" among co-workers says Managing Director of CBSbutler, David Leyshon. “When people hear others speaking in strategic/management gobbledygook they quickly get turned off; complex ideas have to be explained in the most simple and accessible manner for them to be accepted.”
The survey’s tip five most hated phrases were:
- Blue sky thinking
- Getting all your ducks in a row
- Thinking outside the box
- Touching base
- Opening windows of opportunity
Jan 2010
