| Harry F. Wolcott - 2003 - 362 páginas
...office the cook, who had just completed making a telephone order for groceries, walked up to him. 1 "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" (Parkinson 1957:2). '-' The absence of a principal is frequently handled by those left at school in... | |
| Julie F. Rodwell - 2003 - 662 páginas
...a specific future date, if it hasn't resolved itself by the simple passage of time. Time Management "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion," says Parkinson's First Law. "Granted that work (and especially paperwork) is thus elastic in its demands... | |
| Brian Forst - 2004 - 276 páginas
...research and concluded that caseload had no effect on investigative performance, and Parkinson's I^aw (ie, work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion) suggests that performance is independent of workload. Decades later, this clearly remains a vasdy understudied... | |
| Ichak Adizes - 2004 - 298 páginas
...us see. NOTES 1 . Wouk, Herman: The Caine Mutiny (New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1951), p.131 2. "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." C. Northcote Parkinson, Parkinsons Law: The Pursuit of Progress (London: John Murray, 1958). 3. I am grateful to Bob Tannenbaum... | |
| Ichak Adizes - 2004 - 314 páginas
...Styles.) NOTES 1. Wouk, Herman: The Caine Mutiny (New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1951), p. 131. 2. "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." C. Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress (London: John Murray, 1958). 3. I am grateful to Bob Tannenbaum... | |
| Peter J. Makin, Charles Cox - 2004 - 192 páginas
...be following a nasty job, while in column B a nasty job was known to follow the nice one. To modify Parkinson's law, work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion, but only when the work that follows is nastier! This phenomenon is known as the 'Premack principle',... | |
| John A. Caspari, Pamela Caspari - 2004 - 354 páginas
...capacity. This customer will wisely switch to a more reliable supplier as soon as one becomes available. 5 "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." See CN Parkinson, Parkinson's Law (Riverside Press, 1957). 6 The Parkinson's Law type of delay may... | |
| Theo Veen - 2004 - 394 páginas
...boek Parkinson's Laui: The Pursuit of Proijress, (London 1958). De oorspronkelijke formulering luidde: 'work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion'; nadien volgden er andere 'wetten'. 26 FI (Frits) de Jong (1901-1974). 27 Jan Drion (1915-1964) studeerde... | |
| Jay Shafritz - 2004 - 319 páginas
...salaries of police and firefighters. Parkinson's law C. Northcote Parkinsons (1909—1993) law that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." It first appeared in his Parkinson's Law and Other Studies in Administration (1957). With mathematical... | |
| Jack Ganssle - 2004 - 365 páginas
...days to do the work, people tend to "Fill the time available." This is called Parkinson's Law [10]: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Management uses the same reasoning, giving them 6 days of work and 5 days to do it, hoping to enhance... | |
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