Flat organization (also known as horizontal organization) refers to a organizational structure with few or no levels of intervening management between staff and managers. An organization (or organisation &mdash see spelling differences) is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals which controls its own performance and Management (covering theory practice and scope of management and Manager' (covering the people who manage might help clarify and systematise Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. The idea is that well-trained workers will be more productive when they are more directly involved in the decision making process, rather than closely supervised by many layers of management. Decision making can be regarded as an outcome of mental processes ( cognitive process) leading to the selection of a course of action among several alternatives
This structure is generally possible only in smaller organizations or individual units within larger organizations. When they reach a critical size, organizations can retain a streamlined structure but cannot keep a completely flat manager-to-staff relationship without impacting productivity. Productivity in Economics refers to measures of output from production processes per unit of input Certain financial responsibilities may also require a more conventional structure. The field of finance refers to the concepts of Time, Money and Risk and how they are interrelated Some theorize that flat organizations become more traditionally hierarchical when they begin to be geared towards productivity. @@@ main@@@ - title Hierarchy@@@ keywords structure; sociology; information@@@ review@@@ -
The flat organization model promotes employee involvement through a decentralized decision making process. By elevating the level of responsibility of baseline employees, and by eliminating layers of middle management, comments and feedback reach all personnel involved in decisions more quickly. Middle management is a layer of Management in an Organization whose primary job responsibility is to monitor activities of subordinates while reporting to upper Feedback is a circular causal Process whereby some proportion of a system's output is returned (fed back to the Input. Expected response to customer feedback can thus become more rapid. A customer is someone who makes use of the paid products of an individual or Organization. Since the interaction between workers is more frequent, this organizational structure generally depends upon a much more personal relationship between workers and managers. Hence the structure can be more time-consuming to build than a traditional bureaucratic/hierarchical model. Bureaucracy is the structure and set of regulations in place to control activity usually in large organizations and government A hierarchical organization structured in a way such that every entity in the organization except one is Subordinate to a single other entity
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