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GCSE Business · key term
The levels of authority within an organisation, ranked from senior positions to lower-level positions.
Used by AQA and OCR
Paper 1
The levels of authority within an organisation, ranked from senior management to lower-level employees.
Revise: Internal Organisational StructuresPositions higher in the chart normally have greater authority; the arrangement of these levels is the hierarchy.
Paper 1
Revise: Types of Organisational StructuresA hierarchy is the ranking of positions into levels of authority. Senior managers sit towards the top, with other managers and employees below them. Businesses can arrange these levels in different ways: the main distinction here is between tall and flat structures.
The levels of authority within a business, ranked from senior to junior positions.
Keep the distinctions clear: tall and flat describe levels of hierarchy; centralisation and decentralisation describe where decisions are made.
Identify tall and flat structures by the number of levels in the hierarchy, not simply by the total number of employees.
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