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 ...

A flat organization has fewer managerial layers than a hierarchical company. The flat company may have as few as one or two levels of managers who supervise the rest of the employees. This creates ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are no bosses at Punchkick Interactive. Instead, the company utilizes an employee-led, flat office structure that runs on peer feedback, advice channels and employee autonomy. The innovative ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It’s naive to fully disregard traditional pyramid-shaped corporate hierarchies as a thing of the past. They have survived for so long for ...

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 ...

A study found women are less likely to apply to jobs at companies with very lean management, creating a ‘diversity deficit.’ When successful startups and their staffs expand, many founders ...

My friends and colleagues Jeff Stamps and Jessica Lipnack have made an art and science of studying complex organizations. Their particular focus is on how communication within and across networks of ...

The notion of flat hierarchies is de rigeur at the moment, not least in the digital start-up space. But the first signs of a backlash are starting to make themselves felt as it becomes clear the ...