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Cornell Chronicle: Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

“This creates a concerning cycle,” Littrell said. “Employees who are more likely to fall for corporate bullshit may help elevate the types of dysfunctional leaders who are more likely to use it, creating a sort of negative feedback loop. Rather than a ‘rising tide lifting all boats,’ a higher level of corporate BS in an organization acts more like a clogged toilet of inefficiency.”

Personality and Individual Differences: The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcomes

Results show that corporate bullshit receptivity is distinct from a general affinity for corporate speech, negatively associated with measures of analytic thinking, and positively related with other bullshit-related constructs in theoretically-consistent ways. Importantly, corporate bullshit receptivity is positively associated with several workplace perception variables and is a robust negative predictor of work-related decision-making.

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Via Ben Werdmuller: Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs.