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" WORK EXPANDS so as to fill the time available for its completion. "
The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time - Page 14
by Leslie Pockell, Adrienne Avila - 2007 - 128 pages
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The Man in the Principal's Office: An Ethnography

Harry F. Wolcott - 2003 - 362 pages
...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...
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Essentials of Aviation Management: A Guide for Aviation Service Businesses

Julie F. Rodwell - 2003 - 662 pages
...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...
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Errors of Justice: Nature, Sources and Remedies

Brian Forst - 2004 - 276 pages
...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...
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The Ideal Executive

Ichak Adizes - 2004 - 298 pages
...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...
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Leading the Leaders: How to Enrich Your Style of Management and Handle ...

Ichak Adizes - 2004 - 314 pages
...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...
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Changing Behaviour at Work: A Practical Guide

Peter J. Makin, Charles Cox - 2004 - 192 pages
...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',...
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Management Dynamics: Merging Constraints Accounting to Drive Improvement

John A. Caspari, Pamela Caspari - 2004 - 354 pages
...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...
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Prominenten kijken om: achttien rechtsgeleerden uit de Lage Landen over ...

Theo Veen - 2004 - 394 pages
...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...
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The Dictionary Of Public Policy And Administration

Jay Shafritz - 2004 - 319 pages
...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...
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The Firmware Handbook

Jack Ganssle - 2004 - 365 pages
...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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