Swearing at work boosts team spirt, morale

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

Regular swearing at work can help boost team spirit among staff, allowing them to express better their feelings as well as develop social relationships, according to a study by researchers.

Yehuda Baruch, a professor of management at the University of East Anglia, and graduate Stuart Jenkins studied the use of profanity in the workplace and assessed its implications for managers.

They assessed that swearing would become more common as traditional taboos are broken down, but the key appeared to be knowing when such language was appropriate and when to turn to blind eye.

The pair said swearing in front of senior staff or customers should be seriously discouraged or banned, but in other circumstances it helped foster solidarity among employees and express frustration, stress or other feelings.

"Employees use swearing on a continuous basis, but not necessarily in a negative, abusive manner," said Baruch, who works in the university's business school in Norwich.

Banning swear words and reprimanding staff might represent strong leadership, but could remove key links between staff and impact on morale and motivation, he said.

"We hope that this study will serve not only to acknowledge the part that swearing plays in our work and our lives, but also to indicate that leaders sometimes need to 'think differently' and be open to intriguing ideas.

"Managers need to understand how their staff feel about swearing. The challenge is to master the 'art' of knowing when to turn a blind eye to communication that does not meet their own standards."

The study, "Swearing at work and permissive leadership culture: when anti-social becomes social and incivility is acceptable", is published in the latest issue of the Leadership and Organisational Development Journal.

FUCKING A RIGHT, BITCHES!!

[Midnyte_Ragebringer]

Any time you can get real, honest speak at work, as opposed to filtered, PC, careful mumbo jumbo, it is refreshing.

[Ashur]

Profanity is a useful tool for impact if you keep it out of the common work culture. How many times have you been startled when a senior manager dropped the f-bomb when making a point? They can certainly use other terms and they know it, but they do it for impact.

Additionally, keeping it out of the common work culture isn't just PC, it can also help with reductions in bullshit lawsuits, because you never know when someone will claim profanity laced conversation as verbal abuse and bring out the lawyers in our nanny state.

[Boogahz]

Additionally, keeping it out of the common work culture isn't just PC, it can also help with reductions in bullshit lawsuits, because you never know when someone will claim profanity laced conversation as verbal abuse and bring out the lawyers in our nanny state.

Erm, isn't that the basic definition of PC?


*might be a double post.....might not...

[Ashur]

I don't think it's the very definition, no, but it goes hand-in-hand.

Here's teh Wiki entry

Political correctness (PC or politically correct) is a term used to describe language, ideas, policies, or behaviour seen as seeking to minimize offence to racial, cultural, or other identity groups. The term is also used in a broader sense to describe adherence to any political or cultural orthodoxy. Conversely, the term politically incorrect is used to refer to language or ideas that may cause offense; or that are unconstrained by orthodoxy.

The term itself and its usage are hotly contested. The term "political correctness" is used almost exclusively in a pejorative sense.[1][2] Those who use the term in a critical fashion often express a concern that public discourse, academia, and the sciences have been dominated by excessive liberal viewpoints.[3]

Some commentators, usually on the political left, have argued that the term "political correctness" is a straw man invented by the New Right to discredit progressive social change, especially around issues of race and gender.

IMO Political Correctness is to minimize conflict and keep anyone from getting thier panties in a bunch. This has an added benefit to corporations of keeping people from suing due to said conflict/panty bunchiness.