Hierarchy in Organizational Design as a Strategy to Build Resilience

Abstract

Hierarchy is the arrangement of jobs, responsibilities, and reporting relationships in the organization design of any organization. Hierarchy is defined as authority, communication routes, and decision-making processes. Further, an organization is organized using various organizational structures and design patterns to accomplish the goals and intended objectives. The organization's situation is also relevant and reflected in its structure. An organization's mission, vision, and objectives can be achieved more easily depending on its organizational structure and it is this hierarchy in organizational design that can also be used as a strategic approach to build resilience in organizations. Adopting an exploratory approach with a systematic literature review, the objective of this chapter is to investigate the hierarchy concept in organizational design as a strategy to build resilience, the significance, and present examples to support these ideas that will facilitate not only the achievement of objectives/goals but build resilient organizations, which can stand the test of time.