# Professor Joe Magee shares insights on workplace hierarchies

1 Faculty News October 9, 2017 ![The Chronicle of Higher Education logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_033997.jpg?itok=vg1jhfRl)>

Excerpt from [The Chronicle of Higher Education](http://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Students-Can-Learn-From/241410) -- "'Human beings are kind of built to be pretty hierarchical creatures,' a likely artifact of evolution and the pecking orders of the animal world, he says. 'Even if you try to suppress it in the workplace, interpersonally and within groups, hierarchies still take shape.'"

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