Some companies try to have few levels of management. Span of control, the number of people reporting to each manager, has been increasing slowly for decades.
Here's a 1976 paper, from before business had much computer power.[1]
Here's a Delotte report on how to find managers to lay off.[2]
There should be studies of how computerization of management affects span of control. What do JIRA and Slack do to it? Haven't found one yet.
(Now and then I mention the future being "Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0". Amusingly, neither Google nor Bing has the reference. It's from "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe", by Yu, where the protagonist has that program as a boss.)
Here's a Delotte report on how to find managers to lay off.[2]
There should be studies of how computerization of management affects span of control. What do JIRA and Slack do to it? Haven't found one yet.
(Now and then I mention the future being "Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0". Amusingly, neither Google nor Bing has the reference. It's from "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe", by Yu, where the protagonist has that program as a boss.)
[1] https://faculty.lsu.edu/bedeian/files/a-history-of-the-span-...
[2] https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/human-capital/articles...