Language Point 36

Increases in information and knowledge-based businesses are reducing levels of middle management. Top managers get all the information needed to work together with front-line staff. (Para. 26)
Meaning: Because senior managers acquire all the necessary information to work together with workers who work at the front line, the middle managers are not needed. Thus, the increased number of businesses based on information and knowledge has decreased the need for middle level managers.
management: n. 1. [C] the people who are in charge of a firm, industry, etc. 管理人員
The workers are having talks with the management.

工人正與資方進行談判。
In order to increase the efficiency of their factory, they have in several cases replaced the managements.

為提高工廠效益，他們已撤換了幾個部門的管理人員。
2. [U] the act of controlling a business 管理
His management of the hotel is successful.

他把這家旅館管理得很出色。
The losses suffered by the company are due to bad management.

公司遭受損失的原因是管理不善。
Some problems of management can only be solved by greater cooperation between the workers and their employers.

有些管理方面問題只能靠工人和雇主之間合作才能解決。