The world is flat, almost a cliché. Indeed, flattening is a trend in modern organizations. Start-ups are small and flat, and old businesses face competition and have to be flat. How the external environment has changed dramatically in this era of upheaval has proved that messy and noisy open offices are better than clean and quiet independent offices, and that the flat structure of a non-monarch is more than a stately hierarchy.
There are a number of factors that make the organization flat, the competition is one, and the other factor is fairness. The insistence and pursuit of fairness also accelerates the flattening of the organization.
The modern organization not only needs the staff's body and the sweat, but also needs the staff's mind and the passion. Have the ability, willing to pay the intellectual talent, has become a national, industry, enterprise strategic scarce resources. Fairness is the basic requirement and guarantee of knowledge-based talents. Creating a relaxed and comfortable, transparent and fair working environment has become an inevitable choice for Chinese and foreign enterprises to attract talents and retain talents.
Flat, is the basis of fairness.
Too many levels of organization, like relaxing layered skin, will be the filth. Perhaps because of the ancestral jide, perhaps because the boss likes, perhaps is a coincidence, there is always a less suitable person, in the right time in the right place, occupy an important position. Each level is a filtering of information at a time. Each pass is a decay of efficiency.
Too many levels, less suitable for people will be more and more, and cumbersome. After entering the organization of capable, this phenomenon will not be convinced. Although there are various statements, let people accept the status quo. But talented people, do not recognize "fate", do not accept this "unfair." Here do not leave ye, own left ye place. In an era of opportunity everywhere, people always have places. It is the inevitable result of the "bureaucratic system" that the inferior currency expels the good currency.
A hierarchy of bureaucratic systems, how difficult it is to ensure fairness, how much the price to pay. Once the organization is faced with a survival crisis, the first is to reduce this internal loss that does not bring external results.
Flat, is a reasonable choice to ensure fairness. At least for the enterprise, is also the most cost-effective, the most realistic choice.
On the one hand, the organization is flattened. On the other hand, the organization is also specialized.
Social development so far, it is difficult to have all-rounder generalist. It is a great achievement to be an expert in a niche field. The future business, like a rope tied a lot of grasshoppers. Rope, is a common vision of the team, Grasshopper, is a division of cooperation among the various experts. Between experts and experts, there is no difference between high and low, only division of labor. It is no longer a dream, but a reality that is happening.
Professional, promoted the flat of the organization.
To leave the familiar areas and to dictate to experts in other professions, the upside down of this layman's command is inevitably obsolete. may not disappear immediately, but will eventually be completely abandoned. The original unclear management, also faded the veil of mystery, become a learning skills, become a variety of industries. Managers, and cleaners, playwrights, actors, designers, engineers, and so on, are no different in nature. Everyone is a grasshopper, no longer distinguish between the leading grasshopper and Echelon Grasshopper, the organization unconsciously flattened.
Profession, has promoted the social fairness.
No one wants an absolute average, and the fairness that everyone desires is, in fact, equality of opportunity and equality of measure. Before the profession, everyone is equal. Everyone has the opportunity to choose their own professional, each profession also has to let everybody basic convincing measure standard.
Don't brag about descent, who runs faster; don't spell your father and mother, who is more talented; do not boast of leadership charm, who performance is better; Don't say the vision is great, who is more attractive to people. Also need not regulations, the similar opportunity, the similar standard, is the fairness which everybody can accept.
Specialization, to all hope: rely on their own efforts, through fair competition, can obtain a higher social status. The obstacles to their progress are their own mastery of the profession, not the non-professional factors that they cannot control. From the enterprise, the country, the human overall angle, this specialization tendency, cannot tolerate the moth and the parasite, will let the body more energetic.
The world is flat, the world in specialization. The world is becoming more fair in the process of flattening and specialization!
Flat, fair and professional