Flat organizations reduce management layers to boost communication, agility and morale, but they may struggle with role ...

The structure you choose for your business goes a long way toward your success or failure, so choosing wisely is essential. Some businesses prefer a tall organizational structure in which there are ...

Based on trends revealed in recent studies, flat leadership structures are catching on fast. Among polled companies, 93 percent indicated they had near-future plans to restructure and make it “flatter ...

Every organization, no matter its size, has an abundance of moving pieces. Ensuring that all those pieces move in perfect synchrony starts by devising an organizational structure that represents the ...

An organization’s need to generate and sustain unrivaled innovation is the driving force behind why management structure is the hottest business topic right now. And for a good reason. When companies ...

Picture the most successful companies in the world; they have one thing in common — an effective organizational structure. But what exactly does that entail and how can it make or break a business? If ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you think about it, a company’s organizational structure is akin to a building without elevators. A tall structure has many floors.

Startups often start with a flat organizational structure. In many cases, there is no hierarchy. As equal partners, financial experts or operations managers don’t answer to an organization-wide ...

Zappos’s decision to get rid of its management structures has rekindled interest in the concept of the flat organization. One recent article about the topic–a Financial Times profile of a small German ...

The saying "the sum of the parts is greater than the whole" accurately applies to the Skanska companies. The U.S. affiliate of Sweden-based Skanska AB has parlayed its flat organizational structure ...

You’ve heard a lot about the benefits of non-hierarchical organizations, from Morning Star Tomatoes to Zappo’s to the David Allen Company. And you likely know by now that while a flat organization is ...

Responsibilities That Come With the Flat Organizational Model. A flat organization has fewer managerial layers than a hierarchical company. The flat company may have as few as one or two levels of ...