Hierarchical org chart

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What a hierarchical org chart is

“A hierarchical organization or hierarchical organisation (see spelling differences) is an organizational structure where every entity in the organization, except one, is subordinate to a single other entity.”
From Wikipedia — Hierarchical organization — CC BY-SA 4.0

Types of org chart

Org chart

Types of structure

For an organisation

When to use a hierarchical org chart

  • A company

    Shows a company where each person has one boss, from the managing director down to the teams on each shift.

  • Who's who

    Follow the lines up to see who anyone reports to, like a machine operator up to the production manager.

  • Explaining

    Use it to explain the chain of command: jobs go down the lines, and questions come back up them.

How to make a hierarchical org chart

  1. 1The boss
  2. 2The managers
  3. 3Down the chain
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Trees & hierarchies

More trees & hierarchies

Questions

Who talks to whom?
Members of hierarchical organizational structures mainly communicate with their immediate superior and their immediate subordinates.From Wikipedia — Hierarchical organization — CC BY-SA 4.0
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