Business A-Level
delayering
What delayering means in Business A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
Removes a tier of managers, which cuts overhead permanently, shortens the chain and forces delegation, but removes the people who trained the juniors and widens spans past what supervisors can handle.
Removing layers, which widens spans of control and cuts the salary bill but also removes the middle managers doing the co-ordination the new strategy depends on.
Removing a management tier, which cuts costs and speeds communication but widens spans of control.
Topics that use delayering
- Making human resource decisions: improving organisational design and managing the human resource flow (AQA A-Level)
- Managing change (AQA A-Level)
- Managing strategic implementation (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- span of control
- amending a network
- centralisation and decentralisation
- earliest start and latest finish times
- external change
- Flexible employment contracts
- functional grouping
- human resource plan
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