Much like the family structure, workplaces assemble groups of people with established hierarchies and identified skills.
Hierarchies make sure nobody runs off the reservation spending money on crazy, new ideas.
Long before the bank bailouts, academic business economist were talking about a need for flatter hierarchies.
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Then there's the fear of having to crack corporate hierarchies if you leave and come back.
He also includes notes on how people handle food, family, friendship and social hierarchies.
Complex communications and loose hierarchies sound much more fun than life on the traditional production line.
The fashion for flattening hierarchies has had the paradoxical effect of multiplying meaningless job titles.
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Rigid hierarchies stifle communication between different ranks and discourage workers from questioning their bosses' decisions.
But the fashion for flattening hierarchies makes it more difficult to plan their careers.
This, in turn, will eliminate some of the traditional hierarchies and create a flatter corporate power structure.
Few will disagree: elitism, nepotism and deeply entrenched hierarchies bedevil India's progress, and politics is no exception.
In some, each individual's freedom was limited by the taboos and hierarchies of his or her community.
The salaries they can command, as well as their status within corporate hierarchies, are on the rise.
In the relationship that develops, the hierarchies of servant and mistress, artist and model begin to break down.
But that also meant the rise of hierarchies, inequality, oppression, authoritarianism, and the other plagues of modern life.
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Language barriers, especially in typical Chinese company hierarchies, delay response time and hamper crisis communications from the outset.
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Facebook and the like are tools for building networks, which are the opposite, in structure and character, of hierarchies.
What agencies must take immediate responsibility for is the change in hierarchies happening outside of the agency brain tunnel.
Managers must learn to run loose hierarchies in which much of the decision-making power is pushed down the organisation.
These salaried sultans ruled over sprawling conglomerates with elaborate hierarchies and ornate headquarters.
This follows from his related idea that Enterprise 2.0 creates a shift in the control of organizational and management hierarchies.
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Although every successful organization has formal hierarchies, they are more effective when they do not have to be rigidly enforced.
But what does entrepreneurial marketing look like in big, complex organizations with silos, hierarchies and rigid structures built-in for decades?
For the class warriors of the left, fox-hunting is wrong because the structure of the hunt reflects ossified social hierarchies.
In Working Girl, the suburban secretaries' "big hair" was just large enough to elicit knowing snickers while successfully illustrating corporate hierarchies.
Can you confidently say that everyone you work with is persistently engaged with the latest innovation across departments and management hierarchies?
Too many business operators have only a general idea of what their customers are seeking, their priorities and hierarchies of pain.
The rise of the American meritocracy after World War II coincided with the decline of Northeastern WASPs in America's social hierarchies.
But there is also suffocation, self-effacement, and hierarchies of status and dominance that beget humiliation, resentment, and webs of toxic rivalry.
While the hospital president is officially the CEO in this set-up, his or her power over the other hierarchies is limited.
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