The Dilbert Principle

The Dilbert Principle is a satirical book by Scott Adams , the author of the Dilbert comic book, published in 1997 . The book is frequently cited in the management literature.

Dilbert principle

The Dilbert principle presented is a satirical modification of the Peter principle . According to the Dilbert principle, the most incompetent workers are systematically transferred to management because it is there that they supposedly cause the least damage. As a result, the person in management has neither the necessary social skills of a manager nor the specialist knowledge necessary for the area in question.

According to the (superseded) Peter Principle by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, on the other hand, every employee had risen to a level in the company whose demands they could no longer meet. The promotion came because the person was successful at the previous level. In this way, people became managers who at least had a certain insight into the subject matter of their department.

The author regrets the transition from the Peter to the Dilbert principle. The Peter Principle led to bosses who knew what their employees did for a living. Although their decisions were consistently wrong due to a lack of management knowledge, they were at least the "informed decisions of a veteran from the trenches".

background

In his book The Dilbert Principle , Scott Adams tries to show satirically using various examples that the Dilbert Principle continues to prevail, although it is definitely not intended by the individual persons concerned.

The name Dilbert principle comes from the comic series Dilbert and first appeared in 1994 in an article by Dilbert creator Scott Adams in the Wall Street Journal .

See also

• Parkinson's Laws

literature

• Scott Adams : The Dilbert Principle . The Ultimate Truth About Bosses, Conferences, Managers, and Other Martyrdoms. Redline Verlag , Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-636-01592-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Dilbert Principle , pp. 19–23.
2. ↑ Laurence Peter: The Peter Principle . In: Business: The Ultimate Resource ™ . 中信 出版社, 2003, ISBN 7-80073-659-8 , pp. 941 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ↑ Srinivas R. Kandula: Human Resource Management in Practice . 3. Edition. Prentice-Hall of India, 2005, ISBN 81-203-2427-7 , pp. 135 ( limited preview in Google Book search).