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Kate Sidamonidze Tata Bejanishvili Natia Loladze Tamuna Ghubianuri REPORT ON Peter's Principle In a hierarchically structured administration, people tend to be promoted up to their level of incompetence. Thus, every position will eventually be occupied by someone who is not quite capable of doing the job. This maxim was Peter's response to the universal question of "why things go wrong". The thing is that it is human nature to blame other people for their mistakes. So, I think we shouldn't be surprised that everybody immediately grasped the principle because everybody recognized that their own boss was an example of the principle in action. Top-down organizations operate under the Peter Principle, which as we already mentioned, states that everyone within the organization rises to the level of his own incompetence. As long as someone is competent, he will continue to perform well and be promoted for it. However, there will come a time when he is...

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