What are the main characteristics of Horizontal Organizational Structure?
Horizontal Organization’s main characteristics are given below:
- The work is structured all around a tiny number of business processes or work flows
- The activities of employees is linked to the capabilities and needs of suppliers and customers improving performance all round
- Work is completed mainly through teams
- A flatter hierarchy replaces the elderly steeper functional hierarchy
- Management focus more upon continuous enhancement than the traditional management activities of evaluation, decision making and resource allocation.