0 a system in which people or things are arranged according to their importance: --
1 a system in which people or things are put at various levels or ranks according to their importance: --
2 a system in which the people within a company or organization are organized into levels according to the authority they have: --
corporate/management/organizational/political, etc. hierachy Many kinds of work are more easily and cheaply managed in corporate hierarchies than by individuals doing deals in the market.
Every organization has a hierarchy, and trying to understand that, and the systems and processes of the organization, is important.
3 the people in the upper levels of a company or organization who control it: --
When the recommendations had been submitted and approved by the hierarchy, teams were established to manage the process of implementing them.
According to the traditional hierarchy of the sciences, psychology is far separated from physics and mathematics by the intervening sciences of chemistry, biology, and neurophysiology.
Without really challenging hierarchy they still squeezed concessions out of village leaders, turning a weakness into strength.
The gradation of recommendations using hierarchies, which consider the quality of the underlying evidence, represents the best practice when giving recommendations.
According to this hierarchy, a request in dialect seems to be the most important factor in predicting the presence of dialect.
The primary prepositions in nonbranching structures fall outside this hierarchy.
Raising, or at least maintaining, one's rank in the hierarchy is a perpetual battle, and turnover within the population is constant.
The interface is parameterized by an encoding, via phantom types, of the subtyping hierarchy.
Legalistic proportionality, political consensus, personal betrayal, cultural balkanization, and social hierarchy are underlying themes of both books.
