Corpocracy

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An institution with top-heavy, risk-averse, isolated management, excess paper shuffling, low productivity but high expectations of employees, poor interdepartmental communications and lack of imagination (definition adapted from AHD)

CORPOrate bureauCRACY

From Latin and Greek:

corpus "body"

kratos "strength, power"

 

Other words from the same roots: corpse, corps, corporal,

corporeal, incorporate, corpuscle, corpulent, corpus delicti

 

democracy, mimocracy, kleptocracy, kakistocracy, aristocracy

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