management layers

Management layers were flattened to restore the company to fighting trim.

Then they started to suggest simple things, like cutting management layers, to bolster their competitive position.

The distinction lies in the number of management layers an organisation has.

This would remove management layers that impede efficiency, it said.

Top performers had less than four management layers; poor ones had about eight.

Several senior Lowe executives have left recently as the agency pares management layers.

Cut their budgets and get rid of a couple management layers of these organizations.

Yes, that will cause consternation at Kodak, which is still a hierarchical, conservative company with too many management layers.

The drive to cut management layers and to farm out ancillary functions further shrank the training grounds.

Management layers will be stripped away; several headquarters will be consolidated.

During the 1980's, companies eliminated management layers, which means many executives need every tool available to compete for a dwindling number of senior jobs.

It went out of business because it was a high-cost operator, with too many management layers and no domestic routes to feed its international operations.

Management layers were flattened.

Corporations still have too many management layers, too many administrators, too many fringe benefits for executives.

During the 1980's, hundreds of thousands of them lost their jobs as companies rooted out management layers and flattened their hierarchical structures.

He claimed to reduce management layers, cut overhead costs by more than 30%, achieve cumulative savings and efficiency improvements of $1.8 billion.

And he will attempt it by using typical Grand Met tactics, which rely on a relentless push on costs and the peeling away of management layers.

Mr. Logan made a point of saying that he was impressed with the caliber of talent in AOL's upper management layers.

Despite the management layers that separated him from the CEO, Justin had been at many meetings with LaPointe.

The cutbacks, especially those involving removal of management layers, indicate that most young managers will have a harder and longer time getting not only salary increases but actual promotions.

The new structure, which eliminates the management layers of president and senior vice president, calls for Takeshi Higurashi to remain chairman and chief executive.

H. J. Maxmin, the unit's chairman and chief executive, sees a major role for information technologies in his strategy, and he has reduced his management layers to 4 from 13.

One of them, for example, says that "if a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."

In speeches, published papers and annual reports, they note how they have cut the fat out of management layers and divested businesses that did not fit in with overall corporate strategy.

Mr. Hood and his colleagues have compressed 11 management layers into 5 and reduced management personnel to 2,800 from 5,000 by reassigning many executives back to engineering and other technical jobs.