“…Similar arguments have been made by Klein et al (2006) concerning their study on medical teams and by Lyndon and colleagues (2011) in their study investigating speaking up in nurses and physicians. that such a measure is not suitable if researchers are interested in studying the positive or negative effects of status on interactions between higher-and lower-status members, because those effects are based on personal interactions rather than hierarchy diagrams (Berger, Rosenholtz, & Zelditch, 1980;Fenchel, Monderer, & Hartley, 1951;Lenski, 1954;Singh-Manoux, Adler, & Marmot, 2003). According to these scholars, each employee is most likely to have a unique profile of social standings on various organizational and personal status hierarchies.…”