Your company is restructuring, and two layers of management have been eliminated. You now report directly to the national sales manager instead of a regional sales manager.

a) Flattened management hierarchies

b) Nonterritorial offices

c) Changing communication technologies

A) Flattened management hierarchies

Explanation:

Organizations are usually shaped like pyramids, with the vast majority of the employees being at the bottom of the pyramid, and the number of supervisors and managers shrinking as you go up. Traditional organizations tend to have a lot of management levels and are very tall, while more modern organizations have much fewer management levels and are much shorter and flatter.

In this case, since two management levels have been eliminated, the organizational pyramid is shorter and flatter.