The steepness of hierarchy in a bureaucratic organization refers to
a. the number of functional units in the organization.
b. the social distance between the lowest-ranked employee and the highest- ranked executive.
c. the ratio of the number of top management to the number of first-line supervisors.
d. the number of layers of supervision.
e. the number of people supervised by a manager.
d
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