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The hierarchy is the form of organization that will be assigned to various elements of the same system, which can be indistinctly people, animals or things, ascending or descending, by criteria of class, power, job, authority, category or any other type that occurs to us, even being the most arbitrary, but that stores and meets a criterion of classification. This implies that each element will be subordinate to the one above it, with the exception, of course, of the one that occupies the first place in the hierarchy.

For example, it is in the animal kingdom where hierarchies seem to be best established and clear; a bird would never (really never ...) try to pass over the power of a cat, its immediate predecessor in the chain of hierarchies defined in the food pyramid. This simple example of a relationship between species is also perceived at the intraspecific level. This means, in simplified terms, that hierarchies characterize the conduct of gregarious animals. In this way, social insects are organized in a structure for which only one pair is prepared. to reproduce, with a queen that spawns hundreds of sterile individuals that fulfill the function of workers and soldiers. On the other hand, gregarious mammals, such as wolves, are also surrounded by a hierarchical structure in which there are defined leaders. Unlike insect societies, which are rigid and highly asymmetric, mammalian social groups are characterized by their mobility, that is, by the substitution in case of disability or physical deficiency of the leaders.

Also, the term of hierarchy, it's been a few years, widely used and used in business management jargon. organizations to allude to the chain of command generally observed by these and that goes in descending order from the highest or hierarchical positions, in which we find the president, directors and managers, following by the intermediate ones, such as a qualified professional employee who does not show a degree of decision as high as the hierarchies recently named. Finally, to subordinates or employees who do not have any type of management possibility. In companies, then, it will be the hierarchy that will establish the authority relationships between bosses and employees and on which the organizational structure will be determined.

In a Format similar are defined the military structures, in which the hierarchy is part of the daily order. The possibility of climbing positions in these organizations depends on multiple factorsBut, in one way or another, they are moving hierarchies with the possibility of growth in scale. The hierarchies of the Church are organized in a comparable way, in which the possibility of growth depends on many variables.

It is the subject of debate among sociologists the definition of the existence of innate hierarchies in human societies, since most hierarchical structures are based on elaborate models. It is postulated that part of the behavior of human beings has biological bases, for which a certain tendency to organization in hierarchies that would arise from nature itself is presumed. Much is still required investigation to reach definitive conclusions.