• DOI:10.1016/j.physa.2009.09.045
Corpus ID: 9077554

The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study

@article{Pluchino2009ThePP,
  title={The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study},
  author={A. Pluchino and Andrea Rapisarda and Cesare Garofalo},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2009},
  volume={abs/0907.0455}
}

A. Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, Cesare Garofalo

Published 2009

Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics

ArXiv

In the late sixties the Canadian psychologist Laurence J. Peter advanced an apparently paradoxical principle, named since then after him, which can be summarized as follows: ‘Every new member in a hierarchical organization climbs the hierarchy until he/she reaches his/her level of maximum incompetence’. Despite its apparent unreasonableness, such a principle would realistically act in any organization where the mechanism of promotion rewards the best members and where the competence at their… CONTINUE READING

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