Ask people about artificial intelligence, and the discussion will most often turn to jobs: which ones will be eliminated and which ones will be created. But regardless of what happens to the number of ...

As nurse practitioners surge to 385,000 strong in the U.S., the growing profession is establishing itself as an even more prominent role in healthcare hierarchies. Simultaneously, the American Medical ...

The book makes a persuasive case that there are only three ways of getting things done effectively as an organization: hierarchy, heterarchy and responsible autonomy. Hierarchy is still the dominant, ...

Knowledge-intensive work is quite different from the physical manufacturing work that birthed the corporate hierarchies widely prevalent today. Consider the incompetent Pointy-Haired Boss in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover changes to the American workplace. For decades, corporate hierarchies and bureaucratization have dictated the growth and ...

Students at the California State University Maritime Academy and the Culinary Institute of America learn in a highly unusual environment that is both hierarchical and structured. They wear uniforms — ...

The hierarchy is an everyday concept, most often encountered when describing interrelationships within a business, where A supervises B, who oversees C, and so on and so forth. From CEO to presidents, ...

Key points Hierarchies emerge in so-called leaderless groups when some people dominate speaking time. Although more sharing of knowledge is needed in interdependent tasks, steeper hierarchies may ...

The following is a post that also appeared on Psych Your Mind. I thought I'd share these thoughts about social status with Psychology Today! I'd love to read your responses here or on twitter @mwkraus ...