a pecking order

the order of importance of the people in a group or an organization There's a clearly established pecking order in this office.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Narseh	-	Ancient Persian
Gaea	-	Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Smith	[simiθ]
Vittore	veet-TO-re	Italian
Luella	loo-EL-ə	English
TÜNde	-	Hungarian