Get better at flatter : a guide to shaping and leading organizations with less hierarchy

Get better at flatter : a guide to shaping and leading organizations with less hierarchy / Markus Reitzig.

When should organizations think about adopting a flat structure? And what does it take to make it work? Is it even the silver bullet that weve been told it is? Often we have heard about how businesses should organize in non-traditional ways to succeed in todays world: be agile, or adopt approaches s...

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Main Author: Reitzig, Markus (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Subjects:
Strategic planning.
Organizational behavior.
Industrial organization.
Management.
management.
Strategic planning
Industrial organization
Management
Organizational behavior
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Why Flat Structures Work at All
  • Chapter 1: What does it mean to move towards a "flatter" structure?
  • Chapter 2: What managers can effectively and efficiently delegate
  • Chapter 3: Why would employees ever assume extra work in a decentralized organization?
  • Part 2: What Managers Can Do to Make Flat Structures Work Well
  • Chapter 4: What type of persons should you take on the journey?
  • Chapter 5: How to enforce and foster effective self-organization?
  • Chapter 6: How to design the playing field for efficient quasi-decentralization?
  • Part 3: When, Why, and How Flat Structures Can Beat Traditional Hierarchies
  • Chapter 7: When can flat structures beat more centralized ones?
  • Chapter 8: Where does a flat structure reach its limits?
  • Chapter 9: The guide(s) to successful decentralizing
  • Part 4: Test Your Understanding
  • Chapter 10: Delayering the hierarchical firmThe case of Borek
  • Chapter 11: Flat growthThe case of WirDesign
  • Chapter 12: Flat fads or more? From a as in "agile" to z as in "zi zhu jing ying ti."

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