People who are lower in the organizational hierarchy tend to pay more attention to and develop more complex interpretations of the behavior of people who are higher than they are in the organizational hierarchy.

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This phenomenon is known as upward social comparison or upward social influence, where individuals look to those higher in the hierarchy for cues on how to behave and develop interpretations based on those cues.

People Who Are Lower in the Organizational Hierarchy Tend to Pay