hierarchical system
Tiered power arrangement
A hierarchical system arranges elements in ranked levels, with higher levels having authority or precedence over lower ones.
Corporate org charts, military chains of command, and biological taxonomies are hierarchical systems.
The structure implies that information or power flows vertically: The hierarchical system meant every decision had to go through three levels of management.
- social ladderHierarchy of societal status
- employeeHired organizational member
- managerOne who directs others
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- tree structureBranching organizational diagram
chain of command · classification · corporate structure · department · ontology · monarchy · pecking order · power structure · top down · matriarchy · software architecture · framework · feudalism · aristocracy · supervisor · division · subordinate · board of directors
- taxonomygenus, species, taxon, kingdom, phylum
- Binary Starsbinary star, binary stars, double star, double stars, barycenter
- catalogingcard catalog, catalogers, catalog card, cataloging, card catalogue
hierarchical systemegalitarianism
Philosophy of universal equality
direct democracy · decentralization · shared leadership · commune · self-governance
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