0 the process in which a company or organization reduces the number of its managers
1 the process of reducing the number of different levels of staff in a company or organization:
Middle and senior managers have been the main casualties of downsizing and delayering.
As a result of organisational delayering, internal promotion opportunities are virtually non-existent.
For example, account needs to be taken of the ongoing downsizing and delayering which has clearly impacted on older workers.
All recommended a leaner, flatter management structure, with fewer layers of management (delayering).
The expansion and liberalisation of international markets resulted in the delayering and downsizing of organisations.
Local government has experienced what is known in jargon as delayering.
Such changes include downsizing, delayering and outsourcing.
