Flat Organizational Structures and Employee Empowerment

The Impact of Flat Organizational Structures

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Flat organizational structures are those that their management levels are fewer and these particular levels control a large group or area. Flat organizations put their focus majorly on empowering their employees instead of adhering to their commands chain. In flat structures, a bigger number of employees report to individual managers (Bharath, 2015). Therefore, managers will not be able to offer close supervision and this causes high freedom levels of action for different employees. Research done before shows that there is a provision of greater satisfaction need for the employees working in flat organizations and apart from that there are higher self-actualization levels (Sandhya & Kumar, 2011). These structures have a lot of challenges associated with them and a very good example is that it causes role ambiguity of employees due to…