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Description of Top-down Approach. Explanation. |
Definition Top-down Approach. Description.
The Top-down Approach is an autocratic and Hierarchical style of Decision-Making, Organizational Change and Leadership, in which strategies or plans are first conceived by one or a few senior managers, and then disseminated (cascaded) further down the Organization Chart of the firm. The lower levels in the hierarchy are, to a greater or lesser extent, bound by the decisions of the top management.
Advantages of the top-down approach include:
Disadvantages of the top-down approach include:
Compare with: Bottom-up Approach | Centralization and Decentralization | 14 Principles of Management | Chain of Command | Hierarchical Organization Structure | Management by Objectives | Hoshin Kanri - Policy Deployment | Core Groups | Change Management Iceberg | Change Model Beckhard | Change Phases | Force Field Analysis | Core Group Theory | Bases of Social Power | Office of Strategy Management |
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