injelititis

Meaning

Noun

• A notional disease that damages an organization, causing its employees to become frustrated, unmotivated, and/or jealously competitive.

Origin

• Coined in 1957 by C. Northcote Parkinson, using -itis to denote a fictional complaint, as in e.g. imaginitis.
• Parkinson combined the terms incompetence and jealousy into injelitence. The disease that results from this is injelititis.