Practice question · Numerical answer
A company has 729 front-line workers and uniform span of control 9 at every level. Compute how many management layers sit above the front line ().
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3 (answers within ±0.1 count)
Why
: three layers, 81 team leads, 9 managers, 1 director. Change the span to 3 and the same workforce needs six layers; the exponent is the whole delayering debate.
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