BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Tall Organization
- an organization structure with many levels of management. A tall organization contrasts with a flat organization, since it has an extended vertical structure with well-defined but long reporting lines. The number of different levels may cause communication problems and slow decision making. It is for this reason that many companies are converting to flatter structures more suited to the fast responses needed in a rapidly-changing business environment.
Additional Resources
- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: Houston Livestock Show to receive tall award in Austin Jan. 28.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-22 January 1999-TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: Houston Livestock Show to receive tall award in Austin Jan. 28 C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:210199 AUSTIN -- The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo organization will receive the first Agricultural Leader of the Year Award...
- Research articles 1999-01-22
- Trump proposes tall tower
- New York developer Donald Trump has proposed a tall, but not stratospheric, building for the site currently occupied by the Chicago Sun-Times (401 N. Wabash). The owner of that newspaper, Hollinger International, would be an equal partner with the Trump Organization in developing the structure, which would measure a total...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Transforming the skyline and the green building market: Bank of America and The Durst Organization break ground on the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in New York City, designed by Cook+Fox Architects.
- A 945-foot-tall crystalline skyscraper will begin to transform the New York skyline. On August 2, 2004, Bank of America and The Durst Organization New York broke ground on the construction of the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park, located on A 945-foot-tall crystalline skyscraper...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- The Halo Effect: The Tall People Are Coming For You And Your Gut Feeling
- The dynamics of the interview process involves both the parties sitting across the table, putting on their ‘best'. It is an exercise wherein both the interviewer and the interviewee entice each other with pleasing mannerisms and broad smiles. This, sometimes, leads to a ‘halo' effect in which a complete positive...
- White papers 2004-01-28
- Tall al-Hamidiya 2
- The first volume of this work was reviewed in JAOS 108 (1988): 304-6, where brief information was given on the location and character of the site and on the organization and purpose of the archaeological expedition. The present volume is as attractively produced and as rich in contents as the...
- Research articles 1993-01-01
- AP's Tom Curley: 'We Are Not Going To Work With Everybody'
- Two of the most vocal proponents for changing the way news and information are distributed took their message to the World Media Summit in Beijing today. We posted the full text earlier of News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s take on the “Philistines” of news (his own tribe...
- External links 2009-10-09
- Outsourcers Make Progress In Skeptical Market
- Outsourcing is the strategy wherein an organization sub-lets some strategic organizational processes or services to a third-party vendor. Such a strategy enables the organization to optimize costs and increase the quality. The external firm chosen for outsourcing the services has expertise in that particular service domain. The paper argues that...
- White papers 2001-08-15
- Coping with Stress
- You may lead a generally balanced life, but nearly everyone has stressful times. Learning to cope with stress is important to your health and your relationships, so identifying its sources and putting them in perspective will help you to eliminate or deal with the stress and enable you to lead...
- Articles 2007-02-28
- North American Automaker Saves Energy Far and Wide
- The chief engineer at a major automaker running several plants realized that carefully managing energy at each one could save thousands, or millions, of dollars. He hatched an ambitious plan: identify and track all energy requirements, then optimize power quality and efficiency across more than 30 facilities, and give users...
- Case studies
- How Smart Is Xcel's 'Smart City' Grid?
- Xcel Energy thinks there are big energy savings -- and bigger money -- to be made with its ambitious $100 million project to turn Boulder, Colo., into the world's first "smart-grid city." Colorado's biggest electric utility figures that developing an auto-balancing, self-monitoring power grid will give Boulder utility customers real-time...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- What Biz-Blab Sticks in Your Craw?
- What Biz-Blab Sticks in Your Craw?RE: What Biz-Blab Sticks in Your Craw?* partner* trusted advisor* sports terms, e.g. homerun, blocking and tackling* 40,000 foot view* VP for... rather than "VP of..."* framework* coopetitionRE: What Biz-Blab Sticks in Your Craw?Readers have sent in these via email:Your idea wasn't 'socialized' properly.Boil the...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Where's the painting family donated to school?
- Kevin Cooper was only 8 years old in 1965, when his father, an officer of the William Levering School parents' organization, died of a heart attack. Now 50, Cooper still has memories of taking the train into Center City with his mother to an art studio, where she picked...
- Research articles 2007-02-20
- Outlasting hard times
- BEFORE LONG WE WON'T HAVE TO BE THINKING LIKE THIS. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If your business is anything like ours at Wiesner Publishing, your whole organization gets a lot of energy and enthusiasm from the sales team. They come back with war stories of how they finally edged out...
- Research articles 2003-05-01
