Comments on: Top down management Vs Bottom Up Management

By: François BARBIER

François BARBIER — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:01:26 +0000

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By: Daria

Daria — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:49:55 +0000

Jyothi, I couldn’t agree more about the balance between top-down and bottom-up. I’d also like to poin you to an article about this issue: http://www.wrike.com/projectmanagement/02/07/2008/Top-down-and-Bottom-up-Project-Management-Leveraging-the-Advantages-of-the-Two-Approaches. Your feedback is more than welcome.

By: BHATTATHIRI

BHATTATHIRI — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:58:08 +0000

In this modern world the art of Management has become a part and parcel of everyday life, be it at home, in the office or factory and in Government. In all organizations, where a group of human beings assemble for a common purpose irrespective of caste, creed, and religion, management principles come into play through the management of resources, finance and planning, priorities, policies and practice. Management is a systematic way of carrying out activities in any field of human effort. Management need to focus more on leadership skills, e.g., establishing vision and goals, communicating the vision and goals, and guiding others to accomplish them. It also assert that leadership must be more facilitative, participative and empowering in how visions and goals are established and carried out. Some people assert that this really isn’t a change in the management functions, rather it’s re-emphasizing certain aspects of management.
Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their weaknesses irrelevant, says the Management Guru Peter Drucker. It creates harmony in working together – equilibrium in thoughts and actions, goals and achievements, plans and performance, products and markets. It resolves situations of scarcity, be they in the physical, technical or human fields, through maximum utilization with the minimum available processes to achieve the goal. Lack of management causes disorder, confusion, wastage, delay, destruction and even depression. Managing men, money and materials in the best possible way, according to circumstances and environment, is the most important and essential factor for a successful management.

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By: Al Gates

Al Gates — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:42:00 +0000

Top-Down and Down-Up Management Rely on a number of assumptions that are pretty shaky, e.g., In some Japanese management structures, Down-Up is used as the workers are quite good at out-of-the-box thinking. However Top-Down remains in Decision control….
Therefore, a balanced implementation of both Vertical and Horizontal Management structures for the organization is probable a good way to go unless something in the organization proves otherwise.

By: John

John — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:37:30 +0000

Hi Jo

I am not very sure about your definition of the management structures. Top-Down and Down-Up, it has always been the management that has been on the top that takes decisions and it has always been the people below who do the execution….
It will be interesting to know about a management structure that takes decisions at the bottom and the execution happens at the top.

Hi Ritesh
Your observations about horizontal management structure is perfectly true. This is basically driven by customer centric focus of the company, where the company is more of interested in satisfying the customer more than anything else. In the Horizontal Management structure, the Manager attending to a customer is responsible for sorting out all the customers issues, even if it does not fall under his portfolio. In the older vertical structure, if the problem did not fall under the managers portfolio, the problem is escalated to the respective department and the customer is shunned from desk to desk to get his problem solved. Here again I feel that there has to be a balanced implementation of both Vertical and Horizontal Management structures for the organization to get optimum results.

By: Ritesh

Ritesh — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:45:43 +0000

I think that both “the bottom up” and “the top down” styles are implemented in the vertical management structure which are of course very much prevalent in todays management system but i see that a lot of companies are trying to put a horizontal management system in place where the two styles you mentioned are somewhat extinct.
In a horizontal system, we have a top management team with one or two (minimum no.) levels in b/w and then the executives.
So, the employees have a direct approach to, lets say, even the CEO of the company.

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:45:17 +0000

Hi Jyothi

I’m surprised by your definitions. I though that top down management was decision at the top and execution at the bottom.

I thought bottom up management was decision at the bottom and execution at the top!

I didn’t see the Hard Talk program so maybe I’ve missed a beat!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:11:26 +0000

I agree with your philosophy well put.