The Challenges and the Countermeasures to Human Resource Management through Flattening Organizational Structure

Xiao-ming Li () and Jing-liang Chen
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Xiao-ming Li: University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
Jing-liang Chen: University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Chapter Chapter 48 in The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2013, pp 445-456 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the market environment of rapid development and increased competition, more companies had chosen the flattening organizational structure to respond to environmental challenges. The flattening organization brought immediate change was a substantial reduction of middle management; it was felt that the era of middle management was coming to an end. Therefore, to reduce the organizational level and improve the continuity of business processes had become an important trend of the modern organizational change. In this paper, the case study of R Bank in Zhejiang had been explored on the flat organizational structure. Firstly, the characteristics and performance of the Zhejiang R bank flattening organizational structure had been analyzed; then, the challenges that had been brought to human resource management in the process of flattening organizational structure were discussed. Finally, the countermeasures for human resources management had been put forward to.

Keywords: Flattening organizational structure; Human resources management challenge; The countermeasures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38442-4_48

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