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organizations were characterized by the separation of
thinking from doing; thinking was generally allocated to
the top rather than the bottom of the pyramid and to
“staff” as against “line” components. Whatever the
wishes of the company about the decentralized exercises
of authority, authority inexorably gravitated toward the
top of the structure. There was created a numerous
middle management class, spread over an indefinite
number of supervisory layers whose actual roles, as many
work studies showed, was predominantly the passing of
information through the system.
In our electronic age the specialist and pyramidal forms of
structure, which achieved vogue in the sixteenth century and
later, are not any longer practical: