This is interesting since there is evidence (for example, Tung, 1984) that Japan is a strongly hierarchical culture and that status and face are emphasized.

In Harrison Owen's view, the rally demonstrated that traditional corporations with hierarchical cultures can find ways to unleash employees' creative energies.

Such finds show sophisticated, monumental construction requiring large-scale organization of labor, suggesting that hierarchical, complex cultures arose in South America much earlier than scholars had thought.

As an organization, it is widely perceived to have a strong, traditionally hierarchical culture with highly paid investment bankers.

Current and former employees say the military's hierarchical and secretive culture dampens the freewheeling inquiry needed for scientific research to flourish.

The head of the airline whose plane crashes did not himself misdirect it, but in a hierarchical culture he takes the fault as his own.

G.M., the largest but indisputably the least efficient of the Big Three, has also tried to reform its hierarchical culture, but with less success.

With a nod he stepped back; Vulcans, once away from the elaborate formalities required by their own hierarchical culture, tended to speak baldly to the point.

In this hierarchical culture, you must use more formal language when speaking to anyone who has a higher status, whether it be due to age, social position, gender, or whatever.

Find someone who lives in a hierarchical culture.