Are traditional promotion methods as good as promoting people at random?Last month,three Italian researchers were awarded an Ig Nobel prize for demonstrating mathematically that organisations would become more efficient whether they promoted people at random. But their research was neither the beginning nor the halt of the yarn of how bureaucracies try – and fail – to find a good promotion method.
Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda and Cesare Garofalo, and of the University of Catania,Sicily, calculated how a pick-at-random promotion scheme compares with other, and more enshrined methods. They gave details in the journal Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications.
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Source: theguardian.com