What is Parkinson s law, and what does Parkinson s law refer to?

Parkinson's Law: Medium RotIn 1958, the famous British scholar Parkinson's described the bureaucratic lack of integrity and inefficiency in the British organization at that time in his book "Parkinson's Law", pointing out that the incompetence and jealousy of the leaders will inevitably cause the malignant expansion of the organization and administrative personnel, and the continuous development of the expansion will inevitably cause the irreversible death of the institution, and the growth and expansion - re-expansion - until the decline, this is the law of movement of the bureaucracy, called Parkinson's law.

<>< 40-year-old Da Zhuang became the general manager of a company, and the boss obeyed him, seeing that the boss was so good to him, Da Zhuang also threw himself into work. After ten years of hard work, the company has continued to grow and develop under the leadership of Dazhuang and has become a well-known competitor in the industry. At this time, Da Zhuang was 50 years old, and he obviously felt a little lacking in energy, and the new changes and new technologies that were constantly appearing in the market also made him a little powerless, so he proposed to the boss that he was indeed a little busy and wanted to recruit two assistants to help him.

Of course, the boss felt sorry for Da Zhuang, and wanted to help him reduce his burden, and secondly, he also felt that it was time to train and train new people, so he asked Da Zhuang to find a candidate for an assistant as soon as possible. So Da Zhuang began to think about what kind of assistants he should recruit, at first he had the intention to recruit two young and capable, and in a few years he retired and gave up the position to young people. But after thinking about it carefully, I feel that it is inappropriate, I am only 50 years old, and I am far from the age of retirement, if the assistant I found is too capable, how can I be willing to assist myself for a long time?

If you leave the current company at this age, no other company will give you such a high status and treatment. After thinking about it, he decided that it would be safer to find two people with mediocre abilities to help him, so as to reduce his workload and maintain his authority in the company.

Managers in enterprises sometimes choose their assistants and subordinates for their own interests, and slowly make the enterprise bloated, superfluous, and inefficient, this phenomenon is called Parkinson's law in economics, Parkinson's law is one of the internal laws of the British scholar Cyril Northgood Parkinson after a long-term investigation and analysis of the bureaucracy of some institutions in the United Kingdom.

Parkinson's law is often manifested in the fact that the organizational structure of the company is getting bigger and bigger, the number of administrative staff is increasing, and everyone seems to be busy, but the efficiency is not high. As long as there is extra time, the work is repeatedly scaled up inefficiently until all the working time is used.

How can Parkinson's phenomenon be reasonably avoided? This requires the company's decision-makers to establish the company's organization and personnel power on the basis of scientific and reasonable, fair, open and fair employment systems and standards, which is also one of the important directions of modern corporate governance theory and human resource management theory.