Question

1. Explain what is meant by "Information Technology (IT) flattens organizations" 2. Give an example of why you might want to flatten your organization (e.g., communicating, decision making, openness, buy-in).

Answer 1

Flattening the organisation definitely provides an extensive support to the overall organisational structure by improving the overall availability of opportunities for the organisation and removing the middle management staff and executive.
Information Technology plays a very important role in flattening the organisation as it provides additional support to create an equilibrium between different employees inside your organisation at a same operative level. Distribution of the units and positions are totally on dependencies of the job performance rather than focus on creating authoritarian leadership inside your organisation. It is also called delayering. Flat organisational structure helps the manager to create an autonomous and self realised working environment for the employees as well as training of the workers can be done more intensively and more effectively in a flat organisation. Information Technology helps the organisation to create decision programs by implementation of decision support systems as well as it also maintains high quality standard in other aspects of the organisation by mitigating time gap between different events. As a result of implementation of flat organisation, powers to the manager and unethical practices vary widely reduce.
For example, for improving the overall availability of multiple decision support systems for improving the overall availability of different action making capabilities of the organisation as well as for providing positive approach would be the most beneficial and most important part of implementation of plant organisation.
Black organisation would also help my organisation to communicate in a better way between managers and the employees as there are no excessive hierarchical levels for decreasing the overall efficiency as well as productivity of the organisation. This type of approach provides positive information on creation of a better strategy for implementing flat organisation.