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Actual for You - Are You Managing Top-Down or Bottom-Up Or Both?
Journaling For Fun and Profit! her your management style or your organization is a top-down or bottom-up? Here’s how you can get a fairly accurate picture.
1. Is your corporate direction clear to all employees? If yes, are you sure? How do you
know?
2. Is your culture safe for honest bottom-up feedback or is reality being edited before it
gets to you?
3. Do a lot of decisions, projects, initiatives go
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What is Top-down management?
- Keeping decision making at the top of the organization
- Setting goals, quotas and direction in the board room or at senior executive level
- Having strategic planning meetings or events that includes only senior management
- Motivating people with fear or incentives only
- Not being willing to listen to lower level employees ideas, suggestions or feedback
- Coaching and reviews are all top-down
- Senior level executives are too involved in the hiring process
- Very little top-down delegation
There’s more but let’s move on.
What is Bottom-up management?
Well we could say the opposite of all of the above to save time but here are a few others.
- Ownership and buy-in of initiatives and projects from lower level employees
- Improved employee performance and effectiveness
- Less wasted resources on activities and programs that don’t last
- More motivated employees
What are the consequences of a top-down style?
- Senior management is not in touch with reality
- Poor employee motivation and performance
- Poor reaction time to the market place and competitors
- Poor customer retention or loyalty
- High sales costs
- Slow growth
- High employee turnover
What are the benefits of a bottom-up style? I’m running out of space so the answer is the opposite of all of the above plus many more.
Are you in touch with whether your management style or your organization is a top-down or bottom-up? Here’s how you can get a fairly accurate picture.
1. Is your corporate direction clear to all employees? If yes, are you sure? How do you
know?
2. Is your culture safe for honest bottom-up feedback or is reality being edited before it
gets to you?
3. Do a lot of decisions, projects, initiatives go b
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- Not being willing to listen to lower level employees ideas, suggestions or feedback
- Coaching and reviews are all top-down
- Senior level executives are too involved in the hiring process
- Very little top-down delegation
There’s more but let’s move on.
What is Bottom-up management?
Well we could say the opposite of all of the above to save time but here are a few others.
- Ownership and buy-in of initiatives and projects from lower level employees
- Improved employee performance and effectiveness
- Less wasted resources on activities and programs that don’t last
- More motivated employees
What are the consequences of a top-down style?
- Senior management is not in touch with reality
- Poor employee motivation and performance
- Poor reaction time to the market place and competitors
- Poor customer retention or loyalty
- High sales costs
- Slow growth
- High employee turnover
What are the benefits of a bottom-up style? I’m running out of space so the answer is the opposite of all of the above plus many more.
Are you in touch with whether your management style or your organization is a top-down or bottom-up? Here’s how you can get a fairly accurate picture.
1. Is your corporate direction clear to all employees? If yes, are you sure? How do you
know?
2. Is your culture safe for honest bottom-up feedback or is reality being edited before it
gets to you?
3. Do a lot of decisions, projects, initiatives go
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- Ownership and buy-in of initiatives and projects from lower level employees
- Improved employee performance and effectiveness
- Less wasted resources on activities and programs that don’t last
- More motivated employees
What are the consequences of a top-down style?
- Senior management is not in touch with reality
- Poor employee motivation and performance
- Poor reaction time to the market place and competitors
- Poor customer retention or loyalty
- High sales costs
- Slow growth
- High employee turnover
What are the benefits of a bottom-up style? I’m running out of space so the answer is the opposite of all of the above plus many more.
Are you in touch with whether your management style or your organization is a top-down or bottom-up? Here’s how you can get a fairly accurate picture.
1. Is your corporate direction clear to all employees? If yes, are you sure? How do you
know?
2. Is your culture safe for honest bottom-up feedback or is reality being edited before it
gets to you?
3. Do a lot of decisions, projects, initiatives go
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- Poor employee motivation and performance
- Poor reaction time to the market place and competitors
- Poor customer retention or loyalty
- High sales costs
- Slow growth
- High employee turnover
What are the benefits of a bottom-up style? I’m running out of space so the answer is the opposite of all of the above plus many more.
Are you in touch with whether your management style or your organization is a top-down or bottom-up? Here’s how you can get a fairly accurate picture.
1. Is your corporate direction clear to all employees? If yes, are you sure? How do you
know?
2. Is your culture safe for honest bottom-up feedback or is reality being edited before it
gets to you?
3. Do a lot of decisions, projects, initiatives go
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1. Is your corporate direction clear to all employees? If yes, are you sure? How do you
know?
2. Is your culture safe for honest bottom-up feedback or is reality being edited before it
gets to you?
3. Do a lot of decisions, projects, initiatives go bad – sooner or later?
4. Have acquisitions been generally successful over the long term or after time was it
decided that they were a mistake?
5. Is morale lower than it should be or is desirable?
6. Are your employees under a lot of stress?
7. Is communication broken anywhere in the organization – top-down, bottom-up or
department to department?
8. Is their a ‘here we go again’ culture?
9. Are employees more concerned about the success of their own department than the
success of the entire organization?
10. Are you losing some of your better employees?
11. Are sales lagging behind a previous year or years?
12. Is it difficult to hire new really good people?
Can your organization be both top-down and bottom-up?
Yes. And here are some of the benefits.
1. The blending of top–down corporate needs with bottom-up accountability
2. Combining the creative ideas of lower level employees with the vision of senior
management
3. Improved decision making
4. Faster problem solving
5. Beating the competition
6 . Delighted customers
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