Dilbert metric

Measurement drawn from the pages of the Dilbert cartoon series on the trials of corporate life. The Dilbert cartoon, drawn by Scott Adams, first appeared in book form in The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads, & other Workplace Afflictions (1996). One Dilbert metric involves showing ten Dilbert cartoons selected at random to members of an organization. Each member rates the cartoons on a scale of zero to ten. Zero means the cartoon is wholly applicable to the organization while ten means the cartoon is not at all relevant. Each individual's score is totalled up and an average score of all the totals is taken. The resulting figure is an indication of the health of the organization's morale and culture: the closer the figure to zero, the closer the organization to the Dilbertesque, chaotic view of corporate life; the closer to one hundred, the better.