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    What are the reasons that hierarchies emerge in organizations? What about the roles and the nature of this emergence? Does this aid in structuring these organizations/work areas? In this essay, I will be relating the description of activities that take place in an early industrial pin factory from Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations to the organizing and structuring of work. The relation will be described done by examining the division and specialization of labour, requirements that lead to the need for

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    Development: Maslow’s Hierarchy The human body is changing all the time and it happens differently in everyone. Not everyone is going to mature or evolve at the same pace or in the same time. Some people have things in their childhood that may stunt their development or delay it somewhat. The way you are raise influences how you mature. Maslow’s Hierarchy explains how we have 8 things that everyone needs to get us to our potential. Without them all we will not reach that. Everyone

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    into consideration social aspects such as standard of living and the financial system as a whole. There are several other factors other than biological that are responsible for an illness in individuals such as hierarchy and power that vastly affects a person’s health in today’s world. Hierarchy is defined as the categorization of collection of individuals in accordance with their financial, societal and professional position in the society. Individuals are divided on the basis of race, religion, class

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    the level of physiological to self transcendence. The order of needs starts from basic survival or lower order needs to higher order needs. As one level of need is satisfied another higher order need will emerge and assume importance in life. The hierarchy is shown in Fig. Physiological needs: The most potent and lowest level of all the needs are physiological needs. Thus the needs of hunger, thirst, sex, temperature regulation and rest occupy the lowest step in the ladder. According to Maslow, when

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    In East Asian societies, family hierarchy has been a practice used to regulate one’s self interest as well as the interests of others. However, if everyone in the family thought of their own self interests, the family will deal with conflict and struggle. Similarly, processing order in a family relates to having order in a government. According to Xunzi, humans need proper order, and that only humans can create their own order. Confucian practice considers proper order as the basis of human fruition

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    Changing Hierarchies in Early America In “A Model of Christian Charity,” John Winthrop proposes to change the existing social and economic hierarchy. The old world social hierarchy divided the classes based on wealth and property. The highest class consisted of the king and royal family, then followed by the bishops. Next on the hierarchy were the nobles, gentlemen, and the wealthy. And at the bottom of the hierarchy of course, were the poor. Because of this extreme division, there was no middle

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    A Harsh Critique on Hierarchy and Difference Octavia Butler’s trilogy Lilith’s Brood contains a myriad of characters who would be marked as “different” in contemporary American society, whether it is because of their race, gender, sex, or species. Their differences are often the catalyst for conflict between others who see themselves as more normal and, therefore, better and higher ranked in the human hierarchy. Butler’s disdain for human hierarchical tendencies is clear in Lilith’s Brood as she

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    In the Paleolithic era, social hierarchy was determined by multiple factors such as position in the family, gender, age, and favorable personality traits. Titles were given to establish positions within each band. Titles could include, mother, father, husband, wife, brother, sister, child, etc. The higher the position in the band came power over others. (John P. McKay, Understanding World Societies, Pg14). The division of labor was determined by a person’s sex and age. With biological factors, it

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    “Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase of knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure” - John Boyd Orr. A social hierarchy has been present since the earliest of times, and is still relevant today. When a plane crash lands on an island in the middle of the ocean and only twelve and six year old boys are left to fend for themselves, they begin to start over and the reader watches them change

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    In ancient china, the social hierarchy was highly looked upon and very important. The shi included eunuch, scholars and officials. This meant that for the shi, because they were second to the top of the hierachy, they were very important and had big jobs. The shi included Eunuchs, Scholars and officials. These people contributed to the organisation and government of China because they ran the main jobs in the government including scribes, advisors and battle commanders. They also organised communities

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