| PETERPRINCIPLE | Promotion of incompetence within an organisation (5,9) |
| WHISTLEBLOWERS | People who expose an irregularity or a crime, especially from within an organisation (14) |
| BRIDGEBUILDING | Promotion of friendly relations in House Of Cards? |
| ISTINK | Declaration of incompetence |
| BUMBLER | Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence (7) |
| CANT | Admission of incompetence and insincerity |
| BUNGLER | Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence (7) |
| SIGNIFICANT | Important gesture if given personal message of incompetence |
| BLOWTHEWHISTLE | Dispatch train to reveal incompetence (4,3,7) |
| LEVEL | "Every employee tends to rise to his ___ of incompetence" (from "The Peter Principle") |
| PETER | ? safe leader, say, rising to a height of incompetence, as a rule (5,9) |
| HIERARCHY | Word, derived from a ranking system of angels and heavenly beings, for the pecking order of a group of people within an organisation or society (9) |
| GRANDEE | Person of high rank or stature within an organisation (7) |
| POSITION | Social status or rank ; a job within an organisation; or, the arrangement of chess pieces on a board (8) |
| INHOUSE | Essential elements of fine shop to exploit within an organisation? (2-5) |
| INSIDER | Person privy to information within an organisation (7) |
| INNERCIRCLE | Closest group within an organisation (5,6) |
| INFIGHTING | Hidden conflict or competitiveness within an organisation (10) |
| INSIDERS | Those within an organisation (8) |
| ECHELONS | Levels within an organisation (8) |
