Cyril Northcote Parkinson foi um professor, historiador, escritor e administrador britânico. Formulador da Lei de Parkinson, segundo a qual o trabalho expande-se de modo a preencher o tempo disponível para sua realização. Escreveu sobre a burocracia e a variação em eficiência. Wikipedia
“Expansão significa complexidade; e complexidade, decadência.”
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay
The law of longer life - Página 211, de Cyril Northcote Parkinson, Herman Le Compte - Publicado por Troy State University Press, 1980, ISBN 0916624315, 9780916624316 - 253 páginas
“O trabalho expande-se de modo a preencher o tempo disponível para sua realização.”
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
citado em "Self-fulfilling Prophecies: Social, Psychological, and Physiological Effects of Expectancies" - Página 199, de Russell A. Jones - Publicado por Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1977, ISBN 0470993014, 9780470993019 - 275 páginas
“O homem mais ocupado é quem tem mais tempo livre.”
It is the busiest man who has time to spare.
citando um provérbio em "Parkinson's law: and other studies in administration" - página 2, Cyril Northcote Parkinson - Houghton Mifflin, 1962 - 112 páginas
“O adiamento é a forma mais mortal da negação.”
Delay is the deadliest form of denial
"The law of delay: interviews and outerviews" - página 119, Cyril Northcote Parkinson - J. Murray, 1970 - 128 páginas
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”
Parkinson's Law . It is based on an article published in The Economist (November 1955).
Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Administration. (1957)
Contexto: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion... Politicians and taxpayers have assumed (with occasional phases of doubt) that a rising total in the number of civil servants must reflect a growing volume of work to be done. Cynics, in questioning this belief, have imagined that the multiplication of officials must have left some of them idle or all of them able to work for shorter hours. But this is a matter in which faith and doubt seem equally misplaced. The fact is that the number of the officials and the quantity of the work are not related to each other at all. The rise in the total of those employed is governed by Parkinson's Law and would be much the same whether the volume of the work were to increase, diminish, or even disappear. The importance of Parkinson's Law lies in the fact that it is a law of growth based upon an analysis of the factors by which that growth is controlled.
“A perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.”
Fonte: Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Administration. (1957), p. 60; cited in: Craig Calhoun (2012), Contemporary Sociological Theory, p. 254
Cited in:Lionel G. Titman (1990), The Effective Office: A Handbook of Modern Office Management. p. 117
In-laws and Outlaws, (1962)
“Expansion means complexity, and complexity decay.”
Cited in: Ian Charles Jarvie (2014), Towards a Sociology of the Cinema (ILS 92). p. 34
In-laws and Outlaws, (1962)
“The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.”
Fonte: Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Administration. (1957), p. 24. : Popularly known as Parkinson's Law of Triviality).
