Readings this week involve hierarchy and status, as the title suggests. The review piece from Magee and Galinsky (2008) establishes a framework of hierarchy where both status and power are independent, distinct elements. Meanwhile, Anderson, Srivastava, Beer, Spataro, and Chatman (2006) conducted an empirical study focused purely on “status hierarchies”

Central to this article is the question: "How do environmental turbulence and complexity affect the appropriate formal design of organizations?" The authors claim that informal designs — networks for hierarchies, social relations for formalized coordination, and clustering around process or capability over functions, products, or regions — have had the