Horizontal Communication Sample Clauses

Horizontal Communication. The LOCAW project findings identified a number of barriers limiting horizontal communication on environmental issues between employees on the same organisational level and between departments within an organisation. The chief amongst these barriers was the dependence on top-down approaches to environmental change. These were associated with a perceived lack of power over the organisation’s environmental impacts on the part of employees. This barrier was particularly salient in the cases of the transnational corporations and in Aquatim, where formal top-down organisational structures precluded employee participation in setting environmental agendas and suggesting actions. The structuring of environmental roles and responsibilities within organisations was also found to impact on horizontal communication on sustainability between departments at the same level. For example, at the University of A Coruña, where responsibility for environmental issues was the remit of one specialist department, others often felt absolved of responsibility and managers in other departments perceived existing lines of communication to be ineffective. Formal structures for coordination and platforms for participation across departments in an organisation may therefore be necessary to facilitate horizontal communication on environmental issues at the departmental level. This could be achieved by instigating regular meetings amongst intermediate level managers as a forum for discussion and the sharing of good practices. xxx.xxxxx‐xx0.xxx