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Article: What happened to middle management?
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- May 1, 1989
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WHAT HAPPENED TO MIDDLE MANAGEMENT?
AT&T, Exxon, CBS and scores of other major New York-based companies are among hundreds of companies nationwide which participated in the wave of major corporate restructurings in the past several years. The elimination of hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of middle management positions was a common denominator in their strategies.
The strategy seems to have paid off. Judging by the early results, Corporate America can, indeed, survive with a lot fewer people managing it.
Middle management has become inconsistent with the lean, tight ships demanded by a competitive market. Consequently, in some companies, ...