(1) There are essentially four layers of hierarchical division within the Commission bureaucracy.

(2) In Japan's hierarchical society, many people think it is improper to assume jobs to which they not been assigned.

(3) If you look at big businesses, they are moving more and more to a collective team rather than a hierarchical system.

(4) As in other highly militarized states, Aztec society was rigidly hierarchical and extremely punitive.

(5) The atmosphere is that of a large, hierarchical and slightly old-fashioned American corporation.

(6) Given my background in business, it made sense to have a clear hierarchical chain of command.

(7) But one senior WHO insider said that there has been a gradual reversion to the old hierarchical system.

(8) I had grown up with a very hierarchical view of the world, based on clearly defined levels of status.

(9) The social structures of traditional societies are hierarchical .

(10) No social life, indeed no life at all, is possible without hierarchical organization.

(11) I am already too far up the hierarchical structure for my liking.

(12) Bureaucracies are generally too inflexible and hierarchical to allow the learning organization to flourish.

(13) Yet these changes seem to be ignored in the health industry, which is moving further towards formal hierarchical control.

(14) The Met is very hierarchical , and the more senior the officer, the more likely his views are going to be followed.

(15) Labor's task is to flatten this hierarchical system and to dissolve the power-elite.

(16) The system of administration is hierarchical and therefore has a high degree of coherence.

(17) As in any hierarchical system, each functional level builds on the one below it.

(18) It points the finger at the hierarchical system that penalises juniors for questioning their seniors' decisions.

(19) In fact, the post-Cold War world is an increasingly hierarchical one.

(20) Our civil service is based on a hierarchical military model of command.