Abstract
Peter Drucker, in his Harvard Business Review article “The coming of the new organization” (1988) says that large businesses 20 years from now will have fewer than half the levels of management and no more than a third of the numbers of managers as their counterparts today. Rather than following the military command and control model, the new organizations will be more like hospitals or symphony orchestras, with their self-directed and disciplined groups of specialists. This change is dictated by the need for flexibility to respond to market forces and is made possible by developments in information technology.
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Tingley, G.A. (1989). The Challenge of the New Organization. In: Jackson, M.C., Keys, P., Cropper, S.A. (eds) Operational Research and the Social Sciences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0789-1_44
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