top down
Definition 1
Communications: Approach in which employees are given extensive information (including confidential data) on the prospects of their actions and then provided with feedback on their performance.
Definition 2
Decision making: Approach in which the desired results or objectives of a decided upon first and then methods to achieve them are selected.
Definition 3
Investing: Approach in which the economic trends are examined first to select the firms or industries that are expected to benefit from those trends.
Definition 4
Management: Approach in which the board decides what results are to be achieved and how, and passes the plan down the hierarchy or management levels.
Definition 5
Thinking: Conceptually based (cognitive) processing of sensory data that enables a person to understand his or her world through ordering and interpretation of sense impressions.
top down is in the Decision Making, Problem Solving, & Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership, HR, Teams, & Training, Information & Knowledge Management and Investing subjects.
top down appears in the definitions of the following terms: bottom-up pricing, bottom-up investing, bottom-up forecasting, bottom-up planning, information engineering (IE) and bottom-up budgeting
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