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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