The Peter Principle is the principle that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence".员工会被提拔到他自己不胜任的位置[@more@]It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their
1969 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise which also
introduced the "salutary science of hierarchiology", "inadvertently
founded" by Peter. It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted
so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to
a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of
incompetence"), and there they remain, being unable to earn further
promotions. This principle can be modelled and has theoretical
validity.
