See also: Dilbert (homonymy)

The principle of Dilbert is a worsened version of the principle of Peter. In the book the Principle of Dilbert , Scott Adams recalls the principle of Peter: Tout employed tends to rise on its level of incompetence .

But these last decades, according to the author, the Management evolved/moved in a manner such as the time when the principle of Peter applied could pass for a golden age in comparison.

The new principle, principle of Dilbert, are stated as follows: The least qualified people are systematically assigned to the stations where they are likely to cause less damage: the framing.

If the principle of Peter guaranteed that an inefficient leader would be qualified if it occupied the station of one of his subordinates, in a company dilbertienne on the contrary, the leaders are those which were null at the stations subordinates. In particular, they do not include/understand anything with technology and miss good sense in the most serious cases.

Reciprocally, the most qualified employees are not to in no case promoted, because irreplaceable at their current stations, in a contrary logic with that of the principle of Peter.

Scott Adams mentions other criteria of promotion: to be precise, the Femme S are promoted with a single aim of satisfying the quota S. At the men on the contrary, promotions rest on a very thorough scientific method: those which have the most beautiful hair are promoted.

It should be noted that Scott Adams is quite as cruel to the men as with the women in its critics of the operation of the companies, but balance is respected. The preceding conditions of promotion also put men and women at equality.