| Sumario: | This article explores the RenDanHeYi management model as an alternative to traditional hierarchical organizational structures. RenDanHeYi seeks to break down barriers between functions and foster collaboration and innovation through four key elements: encouraging autonomy and decentralization, fostering cross-functional collaboration and communication, emphasizing continuous learning and improvement, and encouraging employee participation and feedback. It argues this model can yield benefits like crossing silos to drive innovation through diverse perspectives, incentivizing calculated risk-taking, promoting innovation through cross-training employees in different roles, and allowing for faster decision-making. Although implementing RenDanHeYi presents challenges, its philosophy of coordination over control and emphasis on flattened yet flexible structures may enable organizations to better innovate, engage employees, and adapt to changing conditions compared with rigid hierarchies. The article contributes to management theory and practice in proposing this alternative model rooted in Eastern philosophy.
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