Parkinson’s Law
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| + | Parkinson's Law is as defined by Cyril Northcote Parkinson in 19955: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". That is, work takes as long as the time it's given. In recent years this law has been studied to try to make workers and students more efficient and waste as little time as possible. For example, Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA put forth a theory about it as he said "If you split your day into ten-minute increments, and you try to waste as few of those ten minute increments as possible, you will be amazed at what you can get done". Many more scholars have theories on the topic | ||
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| + | == History == | ||
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| + | == Implementation == | ||
| + | Using Parkinson's Law to your advantage | ||
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| + | == The formula == | ||
| + | {\displaystyle x={\frac {2k^{m}+P}{n}}} | ||
| + | x – number of new employees to be hired annually | ||
| + | k – number of employees who want to be promoted by hiring new employees | ||
| + | m – number of working hours per person for the preparation of internal memoranda (micropolitics) | ||
| + | P – difference: age at hiring − age at retirement | ||
| + | n – number of administrative files actually completed | ||
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| + | == References == | ||
| + | https://personalmba.com/parkinsons-law/ | ||
| + | https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/what-is-parkinsons-law | ||
| + | https://www.wealest.com/articles/parkinsons-law | ||
Revision as of 17:41, 10 February 2022
Author: Torgeir Páll Gíslason
Parkinson's Law is as defined by Cyril Northcote Parkinson in 19955: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". That is, work takes as long as the time it's given. In recent years this law has been studied to try to make workers and students more efficient and waste as little time as possible. For example, Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA put forth a theory about it as he said "If you split your day into ten-minute increments, and you try to waste as few of those ten minute increments as possible, you will be amazed at what you can get done". Many more scholars have theories on the topic
Contents |
History
Origin Author Practice
Implementation
Using Parkinson's Law to your advantage
The formula
{\displaystyle x={\frac {2k^{m}+P}{n}}} x – number of new employees to be hired annually k – number of employees who want to be promoted by hiring new employees m – number of working hours per person for the preparation of internal memoranda (micropolitics) P – difference: age at hiring − age at retirement n – number of administrative files actually completed
References
https://personalmba.com/parkinsons-law/ https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/what-is-parkinsons-law https://www.wealest.com/articles/parkinsons-law
