The “Peter Principle”

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 595-595
Author(s):  
Peter A. Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Peter Principle

scholarly journals Beyond the Peter Principle [MicroBusiness]

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Fred Schindler
Keyword(s):  
Peter Principle

Seeing Things for What They Are

2020 ◽  
pp. 181-206
Author(s):  
Gary Smith ◽  
Jay Cordes
Keyword(s):  
Observational Data ◽  
Selection Bias ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Peter Principle

Patterns need not be combinations of numbers. For example, employees—ranging from clerks to CEOs—who do their jobs extremely well are often less successful when they are promoted to new positions—a disappointment immortalized by the Peter Principle: “managers rise to the level of their incompetence.” Patterns in observational data can be misleading because of self-selection bias, in that observed differences among people making different choices may be due to the type of people making such choices. When compelled to use observational data, it is important that the theories to be tested are specified before looking at the data. Otherwise, we are likely to be fooled by phantom patterns.

Sales managers: Marketing's best example of the peter principle?

1999 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph E. Anderson ◽  
Alan J. Dubinsky ◽  
Rajiv Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Sales Managers ◽  
Peter Principle
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