Examples of hierarchy in the following topics:
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- Flattening hierarchies can benefit smaller organizations by increasing employee empowerment, participation, and efficiency.
- Hierarchies can be linked in several different ways.
- The only direct links in a hierarchy are to a person's immediate superior or subordinates.
- Parts of the hierarchy that are not linked vertically to one another can be horizontally linked through a path by traveling up the hierarchy; this path eventually reaches a common direct or indirect superior and then travels down the hierarchy again.
- This "flattened" hierarchy promotes employee involvement through a decentralized decision-making process.
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- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs helps managers understand employees' needs in order to further employees' motivation.
- Maslow is best known for his theory, the Hierarchy of Needs.
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs relates to organizational theory and behavior because it explores a worker's motivation.
- Each level of Maslow's hierarchy outlines a specific category of need, each of which must be accomplished in a bottom-up order.
- Diagram Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in the context of organizational motivation and employee behaviors
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- From a business perspective, a hierarchy will often be divided according to function or geography.
- For example, a global retailer may utilize a geographic hierarchy at the upper level, with each geographic branch creating a functional hierarchy beneath it.
- A smaller organization operating in a single region may simply have a functional hierarchy.
- The other hierarchy is executive and works to ensure the experts bring specific projects to completion.
- This organizational chart of the Iraqi Special Security Organization illustrates a hierarchy.
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- Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a model for the various needs of humanity, with important implications for behavior in the workplace.
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs is often portrayed in the shape of a pyramid, with the largest and most fundamental levels of needs at the bottom.
- While Maslow never used a pyramid to represent the levels, a pyramid has become the de facto way to represent the hierarchy.
- Each level of Maslow's hierarchy outlines a specific category of need, each of which must be accomplished in a bottom-up order.
- Diagram Maslow's hierarchy of needs, understanding each tiered component and its application to employee motivation and compensation
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- The four common elements of an organization include common purpose, coordinated effort, division of labor, and hierarchy of authority.
- Hierarchy of authority is essentially the chain of command—a control mechanism for making sure the right people do the right things at the right time.
- While there are a wide variety of organizational structures—some with more centralization of authority than others—hierarchy in decision making is a critical factor for success.
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- Alderfer's ERG theory, based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, outlines three core needs: existence, relatedness, and growth.
- Clayton Paul Alderfer (b. 1940) is an American psychologist who further developed Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs into his own ERG Theory.
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- Strategy is an ongoing process that develops both long-term and short-term objectives at the strategic and operational levels, establishes and/or modifies the organizational hierarchy to manage operational processes, and determines the suitability, feasibility and acceptability of the strategy
- One model of organizing objectives uses hierarchies.
- The items listed may be organized in a hierarchy of means and ends and numbered as follows: Top Rank Objective (TRO), Second Rank Objective, Third Rank Objective, etc.
- "Goal hierarchy" consists of the nesting of one or more goals within other goal(s).
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- These managers are classified according to a hierarchy of authority and perform different tasks.
- They are normally in the lower layers of the management hierarchy, and the employees who report to them do not themselves have any managerial or supervisory responsibility.
- Differentiating frontline management from middle management can be difficult, as the lines in the hierarchy are not always as concrete in practice as they are in theory.
- Distinguish frontline managers from other managerial roles in the hierarchy of authority
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- First, if employees are not being paid enough to satisfy the bottom two tiers of the hierarchy (for example, pay rent, buy food, etc.), then they will be unmotivated to create a strong social environment, accomplish goals, or be creative.
- As noted above in Maslow's hierarchy, employees are motivated in a linear fashion (fulfilling base needs will result in higher needs).
- As a result, a manager must recognize what level of the hierarchy an employee is on before using reinforcement or punishment.
- The hierarchy underscores how management should assess employees' needs.
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- A decentralized organization tends to show fewer tiers in its organizational structure (less hierarchy), a wider span of control, and a bottom-to-top or horizontal flow of decision making and ideas.
- These decisions or policies are then enforced through several tiers of hierarchy within the organization, gradually broadening the span of control until they reach the bottom tier.
- Compare and contrast centralization and decentralization of responsibility within the organizational hierarchy