The "grapevine" is any informal channel of information. It has spawned such derivative terms as the "jungle telegraph" (Africa, Asia) and "bush telegraph" (Australia). Although sometimes used to mean a rumor mill or gossip. it can include truthful information that is obtained from an indirect source.
The origin of the term is unclear, but it may indicate the spreading nature of actual grapevines, where it is difficult to follow the twisting path of the vine back to its source. It could also indicate the secretive aspect of the information, as it would be obtained from anonymous contacts among workers in the vineyards.
Grapevine is an informal channel of business communication. It is called so because it stretches throughout the organization in all directions irrespective of the authority levels. Man as we know is a social animal. Despite existence of formal channels in an organization, the informal channels tend to develop when he interacts with other people in organization. It exists more at lower levels of organization.
Grapevine generally develops due to various reasons. One of them is that when an organization is facing recession, the employees sense uncertainty. Also, at times employees do not have self-confidence due to which they form unions. Sometimes the managers show preferential treatment and favour some employees giving a segregated feeling to other employees. Thus, when employees sense a need to exchange their views, they go for grapevine network as they cannot use the formal channel of communication in that case. Generally during breaks in cafeteria,the subordinates talk about their superior's attitude and behaviour and exchange views with their peers. They discuss rumours about promotion and transfer of other employees. Thus, grapevine spreads like fire and it is not easy to trace the cause of such communication at times.
Examples of Grapevine Network of CommunicationAdvantages of Grapevine Communication
A smart manager should take care of all the disadvantages of the grapevine and try to minimize them. At the same time, he should make best possible use of advantages of grapevine.
vineyard
A Vineyard
There isn't a word for a group of grapevines... sorry. But I think you should just call it a bunch of grapevines... because you call them a bunch of grapes, right? So why shouldn't grapevine be the same?
When the Grapevines Bloom on the Danube was created in 1965.
There is no specific collective noun for grapevines, in which case, a noun suitable for the context of the sentence is used, for example a tangle of grapevines, a cloak of grapevines, etc.
Grapes...
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In a vineyard or somebody's garden.
Land of vines (grapevines).
Vin(pronounced like tin) means pasture. He saw wide open fields :)
A vineyard (vines of grapes)
wild grapevines and sinew