the act of reducing the number of levels of staff in an organization, especially by removing one or more levels of managers from their jobs 简化管理架构;减少管理层级 The reorganization will involve delayering. 这次重组将会减少管理层级。 the managers who survived delayering 精简管理层后得以继续留任的经理级人员 The point of delayering is to create flatter management structures. 减少层级的目的是建立扁平化的管理结构。