Which of the following does the statement, “people are promoted into positions they are not qualified to perform” relate to ?
a.

weber’s model of bureaucracies

c.

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b.

the peter principle

d.

iron law of oligarchy

The correct answer is B.

The Peter Principle is a concept used in management and it was coined for the first time by Laurence J. Peter.

It describes how employees are sucessively promoted due to high performance in accomplished tasks (tasks performed in the past), until they get stagnated in a level in which they are not competent anymore. They do not succeed in the new level, because if the had, they would have obtained new promotions.

what are the events?

apart from being against desegregation, governor of georgia eugene talmadge opposed as well to the work progress administration, an ambitious program of the "new deal" created by president franklin d. roosevelt to overcome the great depression after world war i. talmadge disagreed with welfare spending, job training and organized labor. according to his ideas, he thought the government was spending too much money on this, and he wasn't willing to accept a wage higher than georgia's lower average wage. besides, talmadge strongly opposed to the "new deal" as he thought it had communist ideas.