Re:The Triple Revolution
by crazygringo on Sunday August 22, 2021 @05:04PM
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Do you have a source for that regarding GE? That seems incredibly implausible. I'm moderately familiar with the history of corporate organization, and never heard of anything even remotely close to a hierarchy of 40 levels -- not even when combining reporting chains of conglomerates, regions, and local management.
Re:The Triple Revolution
by temp10298385 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @03:43PM
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I'm really curious how a managerial hierarchy of 40 works in practice. If a manager is responsible for a headcount of 2 then GE would have 2^40 = ~1 trillion employees. Since this is obviously not possible then what does the org chart of a firm with 40 levels of hierarchy look like.
It's not necessarily a balanced tree. One path can have length 40, while another could be 2.
I think at megacompanies, the hierarchy can be pretty deep before you get into what is normal for medium sized companies. Global -> Region ("Americas") -> Country ("USA") -> Region ("Northeast") -> State ("New York") and then you just have a company with a CEO (called something else at this level), SVPs, Directors, Managers, Supervisors, Shift Supervisors, etc.
That's the predicted "unemployment". There are probably significantly fewer managers per se, than there used to be - companies like GE used to have hierarchies 40 or more levels deep.