Advantages through bottom-up leadership
A question of direction: How should profound changes on the part of the leadership be implemented? From the top down or from the bottom up? In times of digitalisation, modern leadership and organisational change, the need to involve employees in the change process becomes clear.
However, over the last few years, two very different camps have formed within the management level. On the one hand, there are those managers who tend more towards the traditional top-down style because they prefer clear instructions and strict hierarchical chains of command. And on the other side are those leaders who favour flat hierarchies and employee empowerment in the sense of the bottom-up approach. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages. In the meantime, however, more and more top managers are turning their backs on the traditional top-down approach and increasingly implementing the bottom-up approach in their management style, as they recognise and want to use the advantages of this approach.
In contrast to the top-down approach, the bottom-up approach initiates the change process from employees at the lowest level of the hierarchy and then moves upwards to the highest level of the hierarchy, top management. A decisive advantage of the bottom-up approach is that the lower levels know best where and which changes are necessary and promising. This allows each level of the organisation to set meaningful and achievable goals for itself and to initiate change processes. The goals presented to the management by the lower levels are analysed by the executives and combined into an overall corporate plan. Potential problems at the individual levels can thus be identified and avoided at an early stage if decisions are made on the basis of input from the levels concerned.
In addition, the bottom-up approach boosts team morale. The acceptance of decisions made by the management level is promoted and the relationship between the individual levels is strengthened. This generally leads to a higher sense of togetherness and strengthens the success of the whole company.
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