SIGNIFICANCE OF COMMITTEE SYSTEM, DECISION-MAKING AND INFORMATION DISSEMINATION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES IN GHANA

Abstract

Management of Technical Universities in Ghana, to a large extent, entails effective planning and implementing in order to achieve the desired academic goals and objectives. There has been a lot of concern about problems inherent in the current educational paradigm arising from inadequate storage and paucity of information. Committee system is very important in higher educational institutions as it solves about 95% of the myriad of problems that confront the management of Technical universities. This article, therefore examined the significance of committee system, decision making and information dissemination in selected Technical Universities with a view to determining management effectiveness and efficiency. The study was anchored on the functional theory of decision-making using survey and in-depth interviews. Copies of questionnaire were administered on purposively selected final yea Secretaryship and Management students, principal officers and academic members of staff proportionately selected from Accra, Tamale and Kumasi Technical Universities. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics while explanation building through thematic analysis was used for the qualitative data. Most of the respondents (85.0%) agreed that executive members might have their own interest and therefore would want to subvert the interest of their colleagues but when committees are properly constituted with the members who are imbued with the requisite knowledge, the outcome of the committee would be outstanding. Tertiary Institution should therefore provide platforms that encourage accessibility to strategic information sources in order to ensure decision-making effectiveness in the running of these universities.

Keywords: Committee System, Decision-making, Information, Dissemination, Management.