Tata Motors aims for leaner organisation, flatter hierarchy

Tata Motors is moving to a five-level hierarchy from three levels in the supervisory grade

The country’s largest automobile maker Tata Motors Ltd (TML) has embarked on a massive restructuring of human resources (HR) that would transform the organisation into a much leaner one with a flat hierarchical structure. Effective April 1, the new structure would be in place.

From a 15-16 level hierarchy, the organisation is moving to a flat five-level hierarchy. Earlier, Tata Motors had three levels in the supervisory grade, five in the managerial grade and around six or seven in the executive grade. Now there would be five grades, L1 to L5, with L1 being the highest. Above these levels, there would