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Organizational publications, circulars, letter to employees, group meetings etc are all
examples of downward communication. In order to have effective and error-free
downward communication, managers must:
a. Time consuming
Downward communication is time consuming communication because it moves
along the line of command of the hierarchy. It results in waste of time as the line of
communication is long.
b. Distortion
Downward communication has to pass through many levels of authority, so there is a
delay as well as distortion of the message.
c. Authoritarian approach
In downward communication, there is too much concentration of authority at the
higher level. As people in the lower levels are merely receivers of decisions. So they
unconsciously receive such message and miscommunication results.
d. Over and under Communication
Downward communication suffers from over communication or undercommunication. In over-communication supervisors talk too much and merely waste
the time of his subordinates. Due to this, the juniors are not respecting the seniors
and there is indiscipline among the juniors. In under-communication, the supervisor
does not talk enough and leaves his subordinates to his guessing about what he
wants them to do.
e. Different priorities
In downward communication, the employees seek information about job security,
salary, promotion and other beneficial schemes, but the management prefers to pass
down orders and directions only. The gap between their priorities leaves the
employees and employers dissatisfied.
f. No confidential matter In downward communication, confidential matter cannot be
c. Encourages Participation
By encouraging employees to make suggestion, upward communication helps to bring
in elements of participative management in the organization.
d. Two-Way Process
Upward communication is a part of a two-way process which promotes better
understanding between management and employees.
e. Making Suggestions
The employees are encouraged to make suggestions in the interest of the organization.
Some of these suggestions prove useful, and the employees are suitably rewarded.
g. Employee Morale
Upward communication develops and improves employer-employee relations and
promotes employee morale.
c. Indecisive Superiors
If the superiors do not take any decision in the light of upward communication, the
employee's loss confidence in their superiors.
It is time saving.
It can also be used for resolving conflicts of a department with other department or
conflicts within a department.
b. Co-ordination of activities
For the achievements of the expected result of an organization inter
departmental co-ordination system must be developed which is a criteria of
horizontal communication.
c. Departmental communication
Horizontal communication is the best system of communication in departmental
communication.
d. End of misunderstanding
There is no chance of misunderstanding in horizontal communication among
employees. So, it is helpful to management for enhancing mutual understanding
and good decision making.
e. Hindering bureaucracy
No change of a rise bureaucracy in Horizontal communication running
organization which is helpful to make a good relationship among themselves.
f. Dynamism at work
If horizontal communication is established in organizational dynamism at work will
increase among workers.
g. Group activities
IN this system of communication a department is well known to other department
and can exchange their affection. So, group activities and direction of the sound
work program will be easier.
c. Positional problem
For positional problem, horizontal communication must fail to fulfill the
organizations goal.
d. Lack of understanding
For lack of understanding among employees this communication may not be
successful.
e. Procedural problem
Sometimes horizontal communication disrupted for procedural problem.
f. Damn-care
It takes place between equal ranking staffs. So damn-care spirit is likely to be
encouraged because of unclear channels and rules of interaction.
g. Over specialization
Specialization is a problem that often happens when organizations do not have
uniformity within departments, causing communication difficulties. Specialization
can occur with procedures or vocabulary used by different departments. When this
occurs organizations have trouble functioning properly and do not run smoothly.
h. Lack of motivation
Horizontal communication often fails simply because organization members are
unwilling to expend the additional effort that it requires. It may require contact with
people in units and the channels and rules of interaction may be unclear.
Sometimes we do not really know these people. The need to communicate with
them makes us uneasy or takes too much time.
i. Rivalry
Rivalry within organizations occurs for example when the different levels of an
organization fail to cooperate with one another.
k. Low productivity
Horizontal communication often fails simply because of organizational members
are unwilling to expend the additional effort that it requires and its wastage useful
and valuable time of superiors which lead to low productivity.
4. Diagonal Communication
Communication that takes place between a manager and employees of
other workgroups is called diagonal communication. It generally does not appear
on organizational chart. For instance - To design a training module a training
manager interacts with an Operations personnel to enquire about the way they
perform their task.
Advantages of diagonal communication: Diagonal communication has the
following advantages;
COMMUNICATION AVENUES
You offer communications to yourself through many avenues, inwardly and
outwardly. All of your outer senses are communication devices. They are mechanisms.
To provide you with information. All of your inner senses are mechanisms to provide you
with information, communications. Your emotions are communications. They are more
obvious, for they also employ signals, feelings. The feeling that you experience in
association with that you define as an emotion is a signal. That is signaling that your
telephone is ringing.
EMOTION
Now; identifying what the signal is in one word indicates to you what to be
evaluating in association with what the communication is. Intuition, impressions,
impulses, these are also avenues of communication. Your physical body consciousness
also offers you communications. Your imagination is another avenue of communication
imagination is not fantasy, it is real. Whatever you can imagine actually exists. It may
not in your physical reality, but it exist. This are all avenues of communication. That is
one factor which is important to pay attention to.
Remember, thought is NOT a communication. Thought is a translating mechanism.
What you think is associated with where your attention is focused. It is translating some
communications and where your attention is focused. That is the function of thought.
ACTION
Also paying attention to what your actually doing is another significant factor.
Therefore, you are paying attention to what you are communicating to yourself and you
are also paying attention to what you are actually doing or what you are not doing,
paying attention to whether your attention is being flexible or not. Whether it continues
to focus in specific directions that are actually generating obstacles or hindrances in
association with what you are doing, figuratively speaking. If you continue to
concentrate your attention upon a wall that exists before you, you merely continue to
collide with it over and over again.
IMAGINATION
There are man factors to be aware of yourself and what you are actually doing.
Many times individuals are not aware objectively of what they are actually diong until the
point that they do actually generate some type of uncomfortable scenario or
manifestation. But this is the point. That actually can be avoided if you are paying
attention. This is not to say that you shall never again create an uncomfortable situation
intentionally. That would be difference, rather than creating an uncomfortable situation in
association with ignoring or not paying attention.
In all of this, you have expressed many different situations which are occuring or
potentially occuring but not actually occuring within your experience, in your world, in
your environment. The significant element is to evaluate what actually IS occurring and
what is not, what actually is being expressed in the now and what is being anticipated
and is not actually occuring, or what you are speculating in relation to but is also not
actually occurring, and being aware of what you are actually doing, for many times,
what you are NOT doing is also a doing.
IMPRESSION
Now, you are generating considerable cgurning in your energy in many different
directions, whaich also creates somewhat of a scatterdness. For itt generates less
clarity and more confusion if you are creating many different directions simultaneously
but not actually focusing clearly upon any of them. That creates a considerable volume
of communications that are expressinginformation to you that are not generating clarity,
that you are generating considerable scatterdness, that you are not focusing your
attention. But you are not listening, and therefore, you create a physical manifestation.
The ringing becomes a siren.
INTUITION
In all of this action, as you continue to generate that scatterdness and you
continue to move your energy to many directions simultaneously but not actually
accomplishing what you want in any of them, for you are not directed enough in any of
them that generates another atomatic response of tension, which you may not actually
even at times physically feels because it becomes so familiar that it is unnoticed. It
becomes notices if you generate actions that intentionally create a relaxation. Thusly,
you begin to notice how much energy you have been holding in tension.
I may express to you, first of all, it may be quite benificial for you to evaluate
these different directions, and in that evaluation, view the importance, measure of each
scenario, of each situation. Subsequent to that action, allow yourself to evaluate the
measure of value that you associate with each of these scenarios. That will allow you to
move in more of a balance and to choose which scenario you wish to focus upon, and
move from one to another but not to be distracting yourself.
Once you have chosen one subject to address to, be presented to yourself in the
now and allow yourself to hold your attention directedly with that one subject, not
distractions yourself with projections of all the other subjects, but allow yourself to follow
on and accomplish some action with it. Even if you are not actually completing a
direction, allow yourself to generate some actual accomplishment, some product of
each one before moving to the next. You are incorporating very much distraction, but
not productive distractions.