Dilbert principle

The Dilbert Principle is a satirical book published in 1997 by Scott Adams. The book is frequently quoted in the management literature.

Dilbert Principle

The presented Dilbert Principle is a satirical variation of the Peter Principle. After the Dilbert Principle the most incompetent workers will be systematically transferred to the management because they supposedly cause there the slightest damage. Thus, the person Concerning operative management had neither the necessary social skills of a manager, nor the resources necessary for the guided range technical knowledge.

After the ( detached ) Peter Principle by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, however, each employee had risen to a level in companies whose requirements he could no longer cope. The rise was because the person was successful on the previous stage. How were people to managers, who after all had some insight into the technical matter their department.

The author regrets the transition from Peter to the Dilbert Principle. The Peter Principle has led to bosses who knew what they had opened their employees for their livelihood. Although their decisions are consistently wrong for lack of management skills, but after all, been the " informed decisions of a veteran from the trenches ".

Background

In his book The Dilbert Principle Scott Adams attempts to prove satirical various examples that the Dilbert Principle becomes more widely accepted, although it is certainly not the intention of the individual concerned people.

The term Dilbert Principle stems from the Dilbert comic strip and first appeared in 1994 in an article in the Dilbert creator Scott Adams in The Wall Street Journal.