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What is a Flat Organizational Structure? Meaning.

A Flat Organizational Structure is an organizational structure that features relatively few layers of managers between the top of the corporation and the normal employees.

Applying this organizational concept has a number of benefits:

More effective and simpler communication processes. Minimal bureaucracy.
Increased flexibility to cope with changing circumstances through more decentralized authority to take decisions.
Matches the needs of the modern knowledge worker to have more responsibility, autonomy and authority. Bottom-up Approach.
Smaller resource commitments to the task of employee supervision.
Improved customer relation management through more personal contacts and quicker decision-making.

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