Peter's Paradox..does it affect your department/company?

[mycrofft]

Of course it does!
The Peter Principle is that folks get promoted as a reward, so if they are really good, they get promoted our of their zone of expertise and into one they aren't as good at due to administrative-centric organizational charts. (The better you are the more you deserve a cushy desk job or to tell other people what to do). The "higher" up the chart you go, the more likely it is you will fail and, to avoid housing "wounded tigers", they will fire you rather than move you back to your zone of expertise.

Peter's Paradox is this: (In your opinion) Has your organization come to be dominated by people with little or no outstanding knowledge and experience in real practice, while continually losing it's star care providers?
Give an example.

 

[fma08]

I'm going with a no. But, we are a smaller service where everyone plays their role well. "Management" is good at what they do and actually listens to "labor" about their ideas. While the promotions don't come along very often, when they do, the people that are most qualified usually get it.

 

[Shishkabob]

I haven't been at my current company long enough to notice.


At my family business, one or two people snuck in to management and had the principle strike... they were eventually removed from the position.

 

[jjesusfreak01]

Some Dilbert...

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-02-05/
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-11-13/
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-04-04/
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1993-08-13/
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1993-02-01/

 

[Veneficus]

Are you kidding?

Does this ever not happen?

It has even happened to me. As I said in another post, I was the "senior guy who does things right" prior to the spread of the position now known as "FTO."

They always sent the new people to be "shown the way" despite the fact most cannot reproduce my success the same way and I didn't want to be a teacher.

I am still better at patient care than teaching, but I have to pay the bills.

 

[mycrofft]

I never thought about the "teacher/mentor" aspect.

I remember being saddled onto some exceptional worker I learned nothing from because they were not into teaching or worked at a subconscious level. Some activel resented having trainees.