noun - 1. Engaging in any activity for the sake of making one feel better about themselves, their organization, or their company without actually accomplishing anything. 2. Holding
meetings to provide recommendations only to have
management do what they wanted in the first place. 3. Holding special work group meetings to make the 'little people' feel
ownership, when the decision has already been made by higher levels of management.
My boss has
picked me to suffer through more Bureaucratic Masturbation,
representing the department on a policy work group.
I spent the last 3 months researching the best candidate for
the position and the Boss picked his pet employee anyway. God I hat Bureaucratic Masturbation!