Incompetence is the inability to perform; lack of
competence; ineptitude.
Aspects of incompetence include:
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Administrative incompetence
Administration may refer to:
Management of organizations
* Management, the act of directing people towards accomplishing a goal
** Administrative Assistant, traditionally known as a Secretary, or also known as an administrative officer, administ ...
, dysfunctional administrative behaviors that hinder attainment of organization goals
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Incompetence (law)
Incompetence is the inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.
Aspects of incompetence include:
* Administrative incompetence, dysfunctional administrative behaviors that hinder attainment of organization goals
* Incompetence (law), a ...
, a person not of sound mind or mentally impaired, unable to make decisions for themself
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Military incompetence
Military incompetence refers to incompetencies and failures of military organisations, whether through incompetent individuals or through a flawed institutional culture.
The effects of isolated cases of ''personal'' incompetence can be disproporti ...
, failures of members of the military
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Social ineptitude
A social skill is any competence facilitating interaction and communication with others where social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning these skills is called socia ...
Incompetence may also refer to:
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Incompetence (geology),
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''Incompetence'' (novel), a comedy novel published in 2003 by ''Red Dwarf'' co-creator Rob Grant
See also
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Competence (disambiguation)
Competence may refer to:
*Competence (geology), the resistance of a rock against deformation or plastic flow.
*Competence (human resources), a standardized requirement for an individual to properly perform a specific job
*Competence (law), the me ...
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Darwin Awards
The Darwin Awards are a tongue-in-cheek honor that originated in Usenet newsgroup discussions around 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool by dying or b ...
, a tongue-in-cheek "award" given to people whose incompetence results in their death or loss of ability to reproduce
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Parody
A parody, also known as a spoof, a satire, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on (something), or a caricature, is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satiric or ironic imitation. Often its sub ...
, a form of humor that often employs feigned incompetence
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Peter principle
The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until ...
, tendency for a person to rise to his or her level of incompetence
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Dunning–Kruger effect
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a certain type of task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge. Some researchers also include in th ...
, the tendency for incompetent people to grossly overestimate their skills
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