In the era of agile, flat organizations, traditional managerial roles and hierarchies are often deemed obsolete. However, Nicolai Foss and Peter G. Klein argue otherwise in their recent MIT Sloan Management Review article. Bosses and hierarchies aren't going, they're evolving.

The key isn't eliminating authority, but reshaping it. The landscape calls for "enabling" authority via thoughtful delegation, a task fraught with challenges, especially in adjusting decision rights.

Our HiA team - Katarina Nossakova, Alexandra Gillung, and Phillip C. Nell - is exploring how to effectively adapt these decision-making rights.

Stay tuned! Insights from their research, set to advance our practice and understanding of delegation and managerial intervention in modern organizations, are on the way.

We are thankful to eXplore! for supporting our work and helping us advance the research in this field.

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Source:

Foss, N.J., Klein, P.G. 2023. Rethinking Hierarchy. MIT Sloan management review, 64(2): 1-6.