Upward communication
Upward Communication is the process of information flowing from the lower levels of a hierarchy to the upper levels. This type of communication is becoming more popular in organizations as traditional forms of communication are becoming less popular. The more traditional organization types such as a hierarchy, place people into separate ranks.
Upward communication helps employees to express their requirements, ideas, and feelings. For top management, upward communication is an important source of information for business decisions. It helps in alerting top management about the requirement of changes in an organisation. Upward contribution is a core contributor of business process reengineering in many organisations.
Upward communication is widely used as part of whistleblowing policy in many large organisations. Under whistleblowing policy, each employee is permitted to directly communicate with top management about matters requiring examination from a vigilance angle. Hence it is used as a fraud prevention tool as well.
Upward communication keeps managers aware of how employees feel about their jobs, policies and procedures, and the business in general. It consists of methods like feedback from employees, which helps in bringing mutual trust and helps the organization to determine, implement or decide upon new policies. It keeps the organization updated or prone to upcoming challenges.
Upward communication is not free from disadvantages too. It suffers from problems like information being changed during transmission, unwillingness to participate, fear of inefficiency, bypassing and flattery. Sometimes top level executives discourage the upward flow of information and neglect constructive suggestions and opinions about the work related issues of the organization. It is a time-taking process and is comparatively slow too.
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