Metadata
- Author: Julie Davis
- Full Title:: The Resurrection of the Middle Manager
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Déjame Sin Trabajo Por Favor
- URL:: https://www.achurchconsulting.com/blog/the-resurrection-of-the-middle-manager/
- Finished date:: 2023-05-06
Highlights
Why Middle Managers Need A Hug. (View Highlight)
why do so many organizational leaders continue to be so dismissive of this critical role? (View Highlight)
From an organizational structure perspective, the most lasting invention to come from the Industrial Revolution is the role of the middle manager. (View Highlight)
Podemos relacionar esto con la cantidad de chunks que podemos gestionar al mismo tiempo.
As production and processes became more automated, organizations’ structures became hierarchical. Company owners could no longer handle producing the output necessary to keep up with demand by themselves, so they hired people to help them. As their organizations and workforces grew, they needed help supervising the many workers under their employ. Owners required a layer of supervision under them that could act simultaneously as their eyes and ears overseeing operations as well as their mouthpieces relaying expectations. Thus, middle management was born. (View Highlight)
Nos suena? De nuevo los layoffs de Meta.
By the 1970s, things started changing for those in middle management. Oil prices rose, and a strong dollar made American products much more expensive than imported goods. Mass layoffs were prominent during this time. For the first time on a mass scale, middle managers suffered the double whammy of delivering the bad news to employees and then being laid off themselves. (View Highlight)
Beginning in the mid-90s and peaking in the early 2000s, the trend for “flat organizations” practically eliminated the need for middle managers altogether. Flat organizations have no hierarchy with few or no levels of management between organizational leaders and staff. (View Highlight)