TY - JOUR TI - The Horizontal Corporation: Flattening the Organization T2 - IS - KW - article KW - books review KW - corporation KW - organization KW - organizational structure AB - The following books and articles cover methods of delayering organizational structure, which has become fairly common as organizations strive to become leaner to improve productivity as well as workplace communication. A horizontal, rather than pyramid, structure not only allows greater worker empowerment, but also makes communicating vision throughout the organization an easier task. A flattened organization requires fewer managers, is less bureaucratic, and can produce more cross-functional employees. Achieving such an organizational structure is not always a simple task, as several of the cited articles cover in their case studies. UR - http://ecsocman.hse.ru/text/18554976/ PY - SP - M2 - VL - SN - N1 - LA - EN CY - PB - M3 - LB - VL - ER -