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Organizational Structure - Coggle Diagram
Organizational Structure
Levels of hierarchy
What does it mean?
Firstly, the word "hierarchy" by itself refers to a ranking of people based on power.
In a business context, "level of hierarchy" refers to the number of levels of responsibility that exist.
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It also indicates how much authority, power to make decitions and responsability of managing the results from those decitions someone in the business has.
For instance, if we take this image as a representation of the levels of hierarchy, we can see that:
It important to kwnow that the personal assistant (PA) of the CEO isn't included as part of the level of hierarchy, instead they are known as a staff manager, which means that they can only communicate the CEO's decitions.
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Chain of command
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How does it work?
If the CEO wants to communicatesomething to the juniors that information has to go through various procedures
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Decentralization
Decision-making authority is delegated from the main/central office - The opposite of centralization
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POR:Arantza, Alessandra, Abigail y Sofia