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ACCA BT Chapter 1 – The nature and structure of organisations – Questions

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    • True they have fewer people to supervise but remember not all the supervisors be top managers. So they all are fed by the ones above them which makes the communication poor because they are many in line dropping down.

      • poor communication in terms of beauracracy, a decision taking too long ,referral from one office to the other, making communication from least ranking subordinates , take too long to reach top level management, is that right?

    • Hello,
      Tall and narrow will have poor Vertical communication because the chain of communication is long. have in mind that each supervisor has two workers to supervise, and he is being supervised by his bosses who are being supervised by others. Hence for the communication to go up the chain to the manager or the head, it is very much possible that the one at the bottom will not get the response on time or even get the correct response as reports could be distorted.
      I hope this was helpful.

    • Because there are multiple supervisors to the tall narrow structure. To help you a little more, lets think it as a whispering game back in our childhood with our friends. You start off with one word and you may end with something else which bring the relevance of tall narrow structure as there are multiple employees and there can be communication errors. Hope this helped you!

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