1958, British historian and political scientist C. Northcote Parkinson published the book Parkinson's Law. After years of investigation and study, Parkinson's disease found that the time it takes a person to do one thing is so different: he can finish reading a newspaper in 10 minutes or read it for half a day; A busy person can send a stack of postcards in 20 minutes, but an idle old lady can spend a whole day to send a postcard to a distant niece: looking for postcards for an hour, looking for glasses for an hour, looking up addresses for half an hour, and writing greetings for an hour and a quarter ... Especially at work, work will automatically expand, occupying all available time. If there is enough time, he will slow down the pace of work or.
Three outlets for incompetent officials. In the book Parkinson's Law, Professor Parkinson has made a wonderful exposition on the causes and consequences of the expansion of institutional personnel:
An incompetent official may have three ways out:
First, apply for resignation and give your seat to someone who has the ability;
The second is to let competent people help him with his work;
The third is to hire two people who are lower than themselves as assistants.
This first way is absolutely impossible, because many rights will be lost; You can't go the second way, because that capable person will become your opponent; It seems that there is only a third way to go. So, two mediocre assistants shared his work and lightened his burden. From this, we can draw a conclusion that in administrative management, the number of administrative institutions will increase like a pyramid, and the number of administrative personnel will expand. Everyone is very busy, but the organizational efficiency is getting lower and lower. This law is also called "pyramid rising" phenomenon.