organizational hierarchy
Corporate pecking order
Organizational hierarchy is the formal arrangement of authority and responsibility within an institution, typically depicted as a pyramid with executives at the top and rank-and-file employees at the bottom.
It determines who reports to whom and who has decision-making power: She climbed the organizational hierarchy from intern to vice president.
The term often appears in discussions of workplace culture and bureaucracy.
- span of controlSubordinates per manager
- levelsHeights or ranked stages
- reporting structureWho answers to whom
- bossWorkplace superior
- chain of commandFormal authority hierarchy
delegation · corporate ladder · ladder · accountability · power dynamics · leadership structure · pyramid · organizational chart · board of directors · ivory tower · subsidiaries · org chart · supervisor · direct reports · office · status symbols · communication channels · open door policy
organizational hierarchyegalitarianism
Philosophy of universal equality
self-management · anarchy · self-governance · worker cooperative · decentralization
organizational hierarchyloose coupling
Minimal interdependence between components