Job Rationale - Communication relating a certain task to organization tasks or goals.
Procedures and Practice - Communication about organizational policies, procedures, rules, and regulationsFeedback - Communication appraising how an individual or group performs the tasks assigned.
Indoctrination - Communication designed to motivate personnel.
Other reasons for communicating downward are opportunities for administration to clarify objectives and goals, gather opinions from employees, to prevent misunderstandings from lack of information, and to prepare employees for change. (McKinney, 2008)Typically when questions start getting asked, they begin at the bottom and the questions go upward. This might mean that a person who is newly hired onto the police force and has a specific question regarding their job and how they are expected to perform it, they will ask their commanding officer. That question may go up to an even higher authority and make its way up to the Chief of Police. …show more content…
In this case the flow would go downward from a superior to a rookie. This instruction may also come horizontally when one officer will understand a procedure better than another officer who is on the same level as him or her and would explain that said procedure to their