They are focused on one-way, top-down communication.
They adopt top-down communication styles and are unwilling to be delegated.
Most companies have elaborate programs for top-down communication, including newsletters, CEO blogs, Webcasts and broadcast e-mails.
It's a big mistake to think that top-down communication will keep the informal interactions positive.
Primary communication across the organizational levels is illustrated by arrows, in which the top-down communication of demands is the strongest (demonstrated by bold arrows).
Supervision meetings with top-down communication or a fault-finding nature can hinder the trust of health workers in the health sector and hamper their performance [ 23, 24] and their relationships with the community [ 25].
Unlike traditional top-down communication from expert to audience, the internet provides 'alternate lines of knowledge circulation,' where websites and blogs also challenged assessments by experts and authorities (13).
Our modelling results show that tailored, people-centred, flood risk communication can be significantly more effective than the common approach of top-down government communication, even when tailored communication reaches fewer individuals.
It is also slowing down communication online.
The setting really broke down communication barriers".
Harvard's administration was strictly "top down".
