The Wisdom(?) of Modern Management
There's a new book out by Don Watson, the author of The Dictionary of Weasel Words. It's called Bendable Learnings. It's about government spin and the language of saying ... well, nothing much using big words.
The Tasmanian government defines outcomes as:". . .the benefits or other long-term changes that are sought from undertaking the project. They are achieved from the utilisation of the project outputs. Outcomes are linked with objectives, in that if the outcomes are achieved then the projects objective(s) have been met."
I think the whole point of this kind of thing is either to a) make the obvious sound complicated, or b) to make obviously wrong things sound so complex that (they hope) no one will notice.Edith Cowan University writes about student priorities policy as ". . .issues arising from the contributing feedback processes and are generally underlying causal issues being different from specific issues identified and addressed within the contributing feedback process".
