By elevating the level of responsibility of baseline employees and eliminating layers of middle management, comments and feedback reach all personnel involved in decisions more quickly.
Operational supervisors may be considered middle management or may be categorized as non-management staff, depending upon the policy of the particular organization.
Welfare capitalism made large companies an attractive place to work; new career paths opened up in middle management; local suppliers discovered that big corporations were big purchasers.
They invented the concept of middle management, set up career paths for promotion of aspiring employees, and established uniform bureaucratic rules for hiring, seniority, firing, promotions, wage rates and benefits.
