Hierarchiology
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Hierarchiology is the social science concerned with the basic principles of hierarchically organized systems in the human society.
"So my analysis of hundreds of cases of occupational incompetence led me to formulate The Peter Principle
'In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence'
A New Science! Having formulated the Principle, I discovered that I had inadvertently founded a new science, hierarchiology, the study of hierarchies. The term hierarchy was originally used to describe the system of church government by priests graded into ranks. The contemporary meaning includes any organization whose members or employees are arranged in order of rank, grade or class. Hierarchiology, although a relatively recent discipline, appears to have great applicability to the fields of public and private administration"
from Peter, Laurence J. Dr. and Hull, Raymond 1969 "The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong" Sourenir Press: London.
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