Friday, January 6, 2012

Advantages and disadvantages of committee.It has something to do with management.

Committee refers to a formal group of people created to
discuss, decide, and act in patters related to specific ares of work assigned to them.
Members of a committee generally are drawn from different departments, functions in an
organization, or may be from even different organizations. As a result, usually they
work part time for the work of the committee, and represent the interest of their parent
department or organization in the committee. A common feature of committee is the joint
discussions and decisions of the committee in formal
meetings.


The advantages of committee include the
following.


  • Committees help to bring together a
    variety views, interests, and expertise together for completion of
    task.

  • Committees provide a mechanism for discussion and
    and agreements based on consideration of a wider range of interests and
    alternatives.

  • Committee enable use of specialized
    manpower or expertise for a specific task, by permitting such experts to work part time
    on the committees.

  • Committees avoid the mistakes of hasty
    decisions taken without due considerations.

  • Decision
    taken by committee are more easily accepted by the all departments because of
    representation of their interests and viewpoint in the decision making process by way of
    their representative working on the
    committee.

Disadvantages of Committee include
the following.


  • Committee dilute the
    responsibility for a task. No single person can be held responsible for poor results
    produced by committee.

  • Members of the committee have dual
    loyalties - towards their parent department and toward the committee. Because of this
    the meeting of committees can degenerate into a battle ground for conflicting interests
    of different departments, rather than a forum for joint
    action.

  • Work in a committee being part time and an
    additional responsibility beyond normal responsibilities within parent department,
    members of the committee may not take the work of committee very
    seriously.

  • Committees take too much time to decide and
    act because committee often work part time and the discussion and decision in meetings
    of the committee is a time consuming process. Many times committees delay taking
    decision as they are not able to reach
    consensus.

  • Committees in addition to causing delay in
    decision and action, also cause waste of time of people working on the
    committee.

  • Decisions of committee are frequently in the
    nature of recommendations and therefore cannot be enforced easily in the organization.
    Decisions of committees often lack the authority of decisions taken at higher levels of
    management within the regular organization structure.

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