Parkinson's Laws (Parkinson's Law)

Parkinson's Laws (Parkinson's Law) are a nickname for bureaucratic or bureaucratic phenomena , by British historians, political scientists Siril Nosgud Parkinson (Cyril Northcote Parkinson) Through long-term research and published in 1958, "Parkinson's Law," a book, the main content of the Parkinson can be divided into 9 aspects to meditate:

1.principle of redundancy increase:The increase in the number of officials is not related to the workload, but is caused by two source drivers. Every official wants to increase their subordinates rather than their opponents (such as "voting"); officials create jobs for each other (e.g. administrative approvals, business, taxation, auditing, public security, vested interests)

2.The principle of centrist decision: In order to enlist the support of the middle faction, the two sides have been quite bothered to fight for it, especially when the two sides are evenly balanced. So, not a competitor but a centrist becomes the protagonist. A person who is not very clear about the content of a decision, a weak-willed person, a person with little ear.

3.trivial laws: Most officials are made up of people who do not know millions, tens of thousands of dollars and only thousand, so that the time spent discussing various financial bills is inversely proportional to the amount involved, that is, the greater the amount involved, the shorter the discussion, and the longer the time. Trivial things take a lot of time.

4.The degree of luxury in office is inversely proportional to the cause and efficiency of the institution.: Organizations that grow up in business generally do not have enough interest and time to design a flawless headquarters. Therefore, "perfect design is the symbol of decay", "Perfect is the end, the end is death."

5.Cocktail Meeting Formula: The meeting is with the cocktail party (dinner). Divide the venue from left to right into A-F six paragraphs, from the entrance to the furthest end of the 1-8 eight paragraphs, you can divide 48 regions; In the case of the start of the cocktail reception is H, and the last guest leaves the time is 2 hours 20 minutes after the first guest, then the important person will be in the h+75 to h+90 time in E/ 7 Area collection, the most important character will naturally be in it.

6.jealousy (three periods): In the jealousy epidemic of the organs, senior managers hard and slow, middle-level cadres infighting, the bottom of the staff dejected and busy.

In the first stage, there appeared a person who was incompetent and jealous, namely, "Jealousy (mediocrity and envy)";

In the second stage, these people who are jealous are unfortunate enough to enter or be at the top, and do everything in their power to repel those who are stronger than themselves and refuse to ascend; "Stupid game."

The third stage, the organ as if to have been sprayed with DDT, where the intellect is not allowed into the body, the organ is terminally ill, at this time the organs have no medicine can save

7.Retirement Disorder (50-year-old phenomenon): The general retirement age is R, in the first 3 years (R-3) People's energy will begin to decrease; the problem is how to pick the right successor, the better the job, the longer it takes, the harder it is to find the right successor, and the incumbent tries to prevent the lower-level person from approaching his or her retirement time.

8.no efficiency factor:Because of the complex interests, more and more non-essential members of the decision-making committee become more and more so that the meeting begins to deteriorate and becomes inefficient. The core decision-making committees or core decision-making bodies had to be re-established in the Committee.

9.meet the selection of mediocrity:Many of the methods of understanding selection were designed, but most of the tests were futile and eventually had to be selected by contingency criteria.

Parkinson's Law explains such a truth: once the incompetent executive heads occupy the leadership post, the complex institutions and excessive miscellaneous will inevitably, the mediocre occupy high-level phenomenon is inevitable, the whole administrative system will form a vicious expansion, into the quagmire of difficult to extricate themselves.

Second, the significance and function of Parkinson's Law

1. Parkinson's Law is a concept in time management.

2. Parkinson's law shows that , as long as there is time, the work will continue to expand until all the time is exhausted.

3. Parkinson's law was proposed to expose and ridicule the bureaucratic structure of the British political system.

4. Parkinson's Law is the law on the formation of a bloated and inefficient organization in the investigation and analysis of the ineffective activities of the Organization.

Iii. revelation of Parkinson's Law (Parkinson ' s laws)

1. Establish a learning-type organization. when the members of an organization are good at learning and making progress, they can ensure that managers can continue to meet the needs of management positions. With the rapid development of social economy, new situation, new technology, knowledge and new problems, only the managers keep on learning and progressing to meet the needs of management.

2. recruit employees to be fair, open and transparent . The establishment of a full range of recruitment mechanisms, not to be recruited staff directly superior to the full recruitment, but should be more senior managers involved, so as to avoid the use of personal reasons for the employer than their ability to lower staff.

3. establish a talent training mechanism . Within the organization to establish a positive talent training or reserve System. For a certain level of managers, and then their performance evaluation to join the training indicators of subordinate staff. The manager must have the target of conveying management talents to the upper layer every year, and the task of discovering talents and training talents. In this way, managers can be prevented from appointing only those who are less capable than themselves.
The labor distribution rate and the personnel cost rate are assessed on a regular basis. Labor Distribution Rate = Labor cost/output increase value, reflects the enterprise's new value to create the share of the employee allocation. Personnel cost rate = Labor cost/sales income, reflecting the proportion of labor input to the total output of the realized value. The departments or organizations are regularly evaluated on these two important indicators to keep them within a reasonable range. These two indicators continued over a period of

Parkinson's Laws (Parkinson's Law)