The designation "„Dilbert principle "“is due to the Comic series Dilbert and emerges for the first time 1994 in an article of the Dilbert creator Scott Adam in Wall Street Journal. Adam implemented his studies to the Dilbert principle in a book of same title, which belongs in some BWL and MBA Studienprogrammen to the obligation reading.

The Dilbert principle is a modification of the more well-known Peter principle of Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull. According to the theory of the Peter principle each person employed up to a stage in the enterprise ascends, to whose requirements it was not up to any longer. The ascent takes place, because the person on the past stage was successful.

The Dilbert principle against it stated, the most inefficient workers in the management was shifted immediately, where they could cause the smallest damage. Thus the person in the management has neither the necessary social characteristics of a manager, still over the technical knowledge concerning the range gemanagten by it. In this tragic situation also humans in its helplessness, gebeutelte by personal Marotten, become whole the medium of the superordinate obligations - the market, the customer, the Vorgesetzen.

In its book the Dilbert principle tries to prove Scott Adam by different material examples that the Dilbert principle continues to itself intersperse always, although it is certainly not intended by the individual persons concerned.

See also

Management teachings, authority, Murphys law

Literature

• The Dilbert principle by Scott Adam, March 1997, ISBN 347835630X
• Dilbert and the hour of the weasel of Scott Adam, March 2003, discussion with 36 pages book excerpt (pdf)

Related links

• http://www.dilbert.com
• 2002 interview with Scott Adam, Funny Business, BizEd, The Association ton of Advance Collegiate Schools OF Businesses, November/December

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