Which of the following statements is true of decentralized decision making?

A) It primarily involves upward communication.
B) It requires every decision to be made by the top management.
C) It enables teams to communicate in a peer-to-peer fashion.
D) It follows traditional lines of authority.

Decentralized Decision Making

A process in which decision-making authority is distributed throughout an organization rather than being centralized in a single point of authority.

Upward Communication

The process of information flow from the lower levels of a hierarchy to the higher levels within an organization.

Peer-to-peer

A network model where each participant (or node) acts as both a client and a server, sharing resources and services directly without the need for central coordination.