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Happy Cursing?

The study, “Swearing at work and permissive leadership culture: when anti-social becomes social and incivility is acceptable” released by Yehuda Baruch and Stuart Jenkins showed that those bad words can be very helpful at the workplace:

Swearing on the job can reduce stress and boost employee morale
“The primary issue for management is whether or not to apply a tolerant leadership culture to the workplace and deliberately allow swearing,” he [Baruch] said.

What influence will that study have on your language?

Will there be more swearing at work?

I can imagine how teams now start to act up:

“Hey asshole - what the hell happened to my motherfucking raise?”
“Screw you looser!”

Et voila—three more reports written in record time and helped the stock to raise more.

Doesn’t this also give a new meaning to interviews: “You can only work here when you can curse well…”

And now imagine what is going on at one of those mass interviews.

Time to remove all the bleeps from TV?

Filed by Frank Kanu under Leadership, Management, Teams

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