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Governance and social responsibility in business
4.4 Advantages and disadvantages of committees
Advantages Disadvantages
Bring together individuals with Tend to be slow at making
necessary skills or knowledge for decisions. Could miss out on
successful implementation of a valuable opportunities and
given task perhaps increase costs
Tend to slow the decision making collective responsibility
process down, meaning that means that no individual is
hasty, poorly considered likely to be held accountable
decisions are less likely for poor performance of the
Decisions are more likely to be committee, reducing
accepted by the organisation as motivation of members
they have been made by a Members of the committee
committee with representatives may wish to further the
from many departments objectives of their own
departments, leading to
More people are involved in the conflict within the committee
decision making process, leading
to increased motivation
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