The Peter Principle is the principle that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence." It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise which also introduced the "salutary science of hierarchiology," "inadvertently founded" by Peter. It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions. This principle can be modeled and has theoretical validity for simulations.
- ISBN10 131247548X
- ISBN13 9781312475489
- Publish Date 6 November 2014
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- Publish Country US
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- Language English