CASE STUDY
the economic crisis of 2008 caused the big three american car-making companies-General Motors (GM), ford and Chrysler -to rethinktheir corporate stucture. market share had fallen and the three companies needed to shed employees and find ways to cut production .
All three took similar action to reorganize the company hierarchy , removing some managerial roles from the mid-management level and installing more team leaders at a lower level in the organization to create a flatter,less top-heavy company hiervisor