the series of reporting relationships any one fimction has within an organization. For example, an engineer may report to a shift snnervlsor who 1n t:nrn. renorts to a Fac11itv Manag-er. who in t:nrn renmts to the Chief Financial Officer. This is a single chain of command. In some organizational structures, (discussed later in this section), individuals have multiple reporting relationships in which the chain of command is not as clearly defined.