corporate hierarchy
Business chain of command
Corporate hierarchy is the system of ranked authority levels within a company or organization, from entry-level employees up through management to executives.
The term often carries connotations of bureaucracy, slow decision-making, or rigid power structures: She spent years climbing the corporate hierarchy.
To work within the corporate hierarchy is to navigate chains of command and formal reporting relationships.
- CEOTop corporate officer
- managerOne who directs others
- chain of commandFormal authority hierarchy
- reporting structureWho answers to whom
- board of directorsGoverning body of organization
supervisor · pecking order · accountability · power dynamics · intern · delegation · directives · governance · boss · top-down · department head · bureaucracy · organizational structure · employee · authority · org chart · seniority · climbing the ladder
- hierarchiestier, tiers, level, levels, rank
- corporate structuresubsidiary, parent company, holding company, corporate group, affiliate
- levelslevel, tier, layer, floor, story
corporate hierarchyworker cooperative
Firm owned by its labor force
collective · adhocracy · startup culture · commune · kibbutz
corporate hierarchyegalitarianism
Philosophy of universal equality
workplace democracy · grassroots organization · self-governance · shared leadership · worker cooperative