Business GCSE
Delayering
What Delayering means in Business GCSE, as defined for AQA, OCR.
Definitions of Delayering
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Reference: AQA
Removing levels of hierarchy to reduce costs and speed up communication.
The removal of one or more levels of hierarchy from a business's organisational structure.
Removing one or more levels of management from an organisational structure.
Topics that use Delayering
- Influences on business (AQA GCSE)
- Organisational structures (AQA GCSE)
- Organisational structures and different ways of working (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Chain of Command
- Delegation
- Span of Control
- Hierarchy
- Adapting the marketing mix to external pressures
- Application of business concepts to context
- Appropriateness
- Authority and accountability
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