The same general principle applies to organizations. For example, employees who spend most of their time doing a good job will by definition have less free tim

The same general principle applies to organizations. For example, employees who spend most of their time doing a good job will by definition have less free time to promote themselves politically within the company. If management is not of sufficient quality to resist it, the perverse endgame for this dynamic is for the hardest working individuals to be mismanaged by their less knowledgeable peers, who spent more time working the system (and were thereby promoted).