Candoo Ltd.will soon flatten its hierarchy by removing two of the five layers of management.If the number of employees in the organization remains constant, which of the following must also occur?
A)It must adopt a matrix form of departmentalization.
B)It must widen the span of control.
C)It must rely more on direct supervision than on standardization to coordinate the resulting structure.
D)It must centralize decision making.
E)It must discourage employee empowerment.

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A company with a wider span of control necessarily has more employees per supervisor, more supervisors for each middle manager, and so on.This larger number of direct reports, compared to a company with a narrower span of control, is possible only by removing layers of management.