Incompetence

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 person not of sound mind or mentally impaired, unable to make decisions for himself or herself
• Military incompetence, failures of members of the military
• Social ineptitude

Incompetence may also refer to:

• Incompetence (geology), weakness in rocks
• Incompetence (novel), a comedy novel published in 2003 by Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant

See also

• Competence (disambiguation)
• Darwin Awards, a tongue-in-cheek "award" given to people whose incompetence results in their death or loss of ability to reproduce
• Parody, a form of humor that often employs feigned incompetence
• Peter principle, tendency for a person to rise to his or her level of incompetence
• Dunning–Kruger effect, the tendency for incompetent people to grossly overestimate their skills