The action or process of reducing the number of levels in the hierarchy of employees in an organization.
削减层次；减少等级
downsizing and delayering have severely undermined staff loyalty
Example sentencesExamples
A comprehensive process of institutional delayering has to be kick-started.
At this level, delayering is accompanied by the need for self-supervision by work groups (sometimes called their empowerment).
Downsizing, delayering, and rising credentialism are factors that have careers during the 1980s and 1990s, resulting in spiral and transitory career patterns becoming more common.
The delayering thrust in organizations is said to occur due to technological change, increased global competition, and retrenchment during recessions.
Amid downsizing and delayering, most employees face both fewer opportunities for promotion and little hope of escape to some new employer.
Derivatives
delayer
verb
Although managerial hierarchies have been delayered organisational structures have not been fundamentally altered.
Example sentencesExamples
Examples are numerous, but perhaps the most recent is the directive to restructure in order to delayer organizations.
Over the Eighties and Nineties, everyone else slimmed down the back offices, delayered, computerised, out sourced and reduced headcount.
Such organizations may be delayered internally, but they are not depowered either internally or externally.
The department had been redesigned, delayered, downsized, and the people were operating as a self-managed team.