"Flat" organisation - origin? LO21779

Roy Greenhalgh (rgreenh@ibm.net)
Mon, 31 May 1999 20:02:13 +0100

Replying to LO21773 --

Wendy

Hammer & Champney do indeed talk about a "flat" organisation in
"Re-engineering the Corporation".

See pp 77-79.

Two references are made:-

* organisational structures chaage -- from hierarchical to flat
is a section heading on pp 77.

* PP 78 has the sentence "Consequently, whatever organisational
structure remians after re-engineering tends to be flat, as work is
performed by teams of essentially co-equal people operating with great
autonomy and supported by a few managers -- few, because while a few
managers can typically supervise only about 7 people, he or she can
coach close to 30".

Hm.. I wonder

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