There is a family resemblance about most modern organisations: whether business firms or trades unions, charities or the police, political parties or the military, there is a chain of command from the man at the top via senior executives through middle management down to the ' rank and file.' How does this vertical ' tree structure ' affect those who work in it?
5: Changing hierarchies at work w. w. DANIEL, of Political and Economic Planning, has carried out extensive research on worker control. He talks about ways. in Britain and abroad, in which the traditional distribution of power in industry is changing.
Series producer LEONIE COHN