The Removal of Layers from Organisational Hierarchies in the 1980s

question 20

Multiple Choice

The removal of layers from organisational hierarchies in the 1980s and 1990s, which resulted in smaller and flatter organisations, was known as:

• A) rationalisation.
• B) upsizing.
• C) hybridisation.
• D) downsizing.
• E) mechanisation.

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