List and describe the five types of organizational downward communication

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Downward communication is used by management for sending orders, directives, goals, policies, procedures, memorandums, and so forth to employees at lower levels of the organization. Five types of such communication within an organization can be identified:
1 ) Job instruction — communication relating to the performance of a certain task
2 ) Job rationale — communication relating a certain task to organizational tasks
3 ) Procedures and practices — communication about organization policies, procedures, rules, and regulations
4 ) Feedback — communication appraisal of how an individual performs the assigned task
5 ) Indoctrination — communication designed to motivate the employee