In _________ grapevine, a person transmits the information to a few selected people and some of them pass it on to select others.
Cluster
The grapevine, or informal communication network, spreads in four recognised patterns, and each is defined by how the message moves from one person to the next.
The pattern described - a person tells a few selected people, and some of those in turn pass it on to a few select others - is the cluster chain. Its distinguishing feature is selectivity at every step: the sender chooses whom to trust with the information, and not everyone who receives it passes it on further. This is generally regarded as the most common grapevine pattern in organisations, precisely because people share sensitive news with those they trust rather than broadcasting it.
The gossip chain works differently: one person tells everybody else, so the information radiates from a single hub to many receivers at once. The probability chain is random rather than selective - each person passes the information to others chosen by chance, with no deliberate selection at all. The single-strand chain moves in a straight line, A telling B, B telling C, C telling D, one person to one person, which distorts the message most as it travels.
Hence the pattern described is the cluster grapevine.
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