This may assume that solid lines and dashed lines represent a weaker reporting relationship, but still indicate some formal level of entitlement to the individual's time or may mean multiple solid lines for more than one item. The advantage of this organizational structure is that employees are in contact with more people in their organizational structure chain, Hierarchical Structures • Pyramid shaped structure, one person at the top, few people report to him, slightly more people report to them , more people further down the pyramid • Advantages: it is easy to see the different teams, what they are called, how they relate to each other, how many members (very clear how many people there are at each level and team and how it all works, the image of the structure high is confusing and has a lot of lines and shit, the pyramid is not• Disadvantages: harder to reach people from the lower levels