managementese
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From management + -ese.
Noun
[edit]managementese (uncountable)
- (often derogatory) The jargon used by management.
- 1971 November 14, Kenneth Lamott, “The Chancellor the State Colleges”, in Los Angeles Times, page U16:
- Even phrased as they are in Higher Managementese, these comments touch the heart of the matter.
- 1992 June 14, William Safire, “On Language: Perotspeak”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Apr. 2009:
- The uniqueness of Perotspeak is its mixture of rustic metaphor with modern managementese.
- 2002 June 10, “Silly names for failure”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 14 Apr. 2009:
- Since February, we have been calling for the ridiculously named Consignia to change back to the good old Post Office. . . . [T]he chief executive, John Roberts, said of Consignia that it was a "modern, meaningful and entirely appropriate" name that "describes the full scope of the Post Office in a way that the words ‘post’ and ‘office’ cannot". That was clearly hogwash managementese of the worst variety.