Specialized detector roles are required, roles involving various specialized and technical qualifications. If the organization is able to respond to new data, these specialized detector roles become new power roles within the organization, further exaggerating the latent conflict between the general line and the cross-line occupational specialties. Resistance to this
new diminution of authority, and hence to communication, will be especially pronounced in the insecure atmosphere of the bureaupathic hierarchy-emphasized organization. In that atmosphere, particularly, attempts will be made to restrict communication to channels (an exercise of the superior’s right to monopolize communication), to the line of command, or to .the hierarchy – a channel technically inadequate for specialized communication, increasingly overloaded, and notoriously unreliable because of opportunities and motivations for censorship at each communication station. Development planning, on the other hand, calls for increasing specialization and hence increasing interdependence, the toleration of which depends in part upon the adequacy of communication. Growing pressure for new, non hierarchical, specialized communication channels is likely to generate further resistance to the diminution of authority, especially in the bureaupathic or insecurity-dominated organization.