• The Peter Principle states that employees rise up the firm’s hierarchy through promotion until they reach a level of appropriate incompetence.

  • As a result, in accordance with the Peter principle, each position in a given hierarchy will eventually be filled by employees who are incompetent to perform the duties of their respective positions.
  • A possible solution to the problem posed by the Peter principle is for companies to provide adequate training for the skills of employees who are promoted and ensure that the training is appropriate for the position they have been promoted to.