top-down management

collocation in English

meaningsoftop-downandmanagement

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top-down
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˌtɒpˈdaʊn/us
/ˌtɑːpˈdaʊn/
used to refer to a situation in which decisions are made by a few people in authority rather than by the people who are affected by ...
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management
noun
uk
/ˈmæn.ɪdʒ.mənt/us
/ˈmæn.ədʒ.mənt/
the control and organization ...
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(Definition oftop-downandmanagementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Investment and sometop-downmanagementhave brought that about.
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Nevertheless, they would welcome freedom fromtop-downmanagement; there is no question about that.
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If there is to be more local input and lesstop-downmanagement, it is inevitable that more people on those boards are going to demand such services.
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They are doing so not as in the past with atop-downmanagementapproach, but with the objective of securing services which local residents generally want.
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Macho,top-downmanagementis long past its sell-by date.
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Generally, these groups exhibit moretop-downmanagement, centralized control or (in the case of airline alliances) looser equity ownership connections than do true "keiretsu".
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Other strategies exist that rely on making simple distinctions rather than buildingtop-downmanagementsystems using performance audits and full cost accounting.
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Its supervisors are called coaches, a change made in 1997 when the company moved away from traditionaltop-downmanagementand toward self-directed work team, and it practices open-book financial management.
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Crecine never asked for input regarding the changes and, consequently, many faculty members disliked histop-downmanagementstyle; despite this, the changes passed by a slim margin.
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For example, a structure in which decisions either are approved by a manager, or approved by his or her authorized representatives based on the manager's prior guidelines, istop-downmanagement.
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