THE USE OF COMMITTEE AND GROUP MEETINGS IN ENHANCING DECISION MAKING

To this end, the research is geared toward finding the causes of ineffective use of committee and group meeting towards the attainment of goals and aspirations of the state House of Assembly.1.2   PURPOSE OF THE STUDYCommittee and group meetings have been with us, for many decades. Arriving at effective decision by the use of committee and group meetings conceptualized variously by different groups of individual.Systems may vary on the use of committee and group meetings, but success or failure eventually will depends on organizational or political strategy of the leaders of the state.The specific purpose of this study is:1           To identify how committee and groups meetings are used in the Anambra state House of Assembly to enhance decision making.2           To assess the importance and impact of group meeting in the House.3           To assess the quality of members selected to serve in various committees.1.3   RESEARCH QUESTIONS1     How did committee and groups meetings in Anambra state House of Assembly enhance decision making.2     What are the importance and impact of committee in decision making3     To what extend has the quality of members selected to served in various committee helped in decision making.1.4   STATEMENT OF HYPOTHESIS1     Ho: The use of committee and group meeting are not used in the Anambra state House of Assembly to enhance decision making.        Hi: The use of committee and group meeting are used in the Anambra state House of Assembly to enhance decision making.2     Ho: The use of committee and group meeting are not important in decision making .Hi: The use of committee and group meeting are mostly important in decision making.3     Ho: the quality of members selected to served in various committee are not helpful in decision making.        Hi: the quality of members selected t served in various committee help in decision making.1.5   THEORETICAL FRAME WORKThere are different scholars who conducted theories on the use of committee and groups meetings in enhancing decision-making but this research work will focus on forest. Maltzman (1995) who proposed a conditional model of committees behaviour which argued that the principal of a committee serves as an agent in congress varies systematically over time and across committee’s depending on the salience of the committee jurisdiction compared to that of other committee. However, due to changes in the salience of policy issues overtime there are reasons to believe that salience within the committee change over time to reflect current public opinion and political agend as change in issue salience should affect the agency of the committee over time within the committee, just as Maltzman demonstrated that the level of salience alters the principal among different committees. Using data from the policy Agendas project for the policy areas of education and labour, it shows how the salience of the issues committee considered by the House Education and labour committee changes overtime. Data comparing NOMINATE scores of the committee members to the scores of the whole chamber and the party causes will be used to test Maltzman’s conditional theory within one committee over time. the ideological make up of the committee’s principal is the full chamber when the salience of issues is high, but in times of lower salience the scores will show that the parties are the main principals of the committee. This finding supports maltz man’s conditional theory but expands it to show that there is systematic variation principal agent relationship between a committee, the chamber and parties over time based on the salience of the committee jurisdiction.1.6   SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDYDue to the vast nature of Nigeria both in public services the scope of this study is limited to public bureaucracy especially the policy makers in the House of Assemblies.        Therefore, any useful information obtained through a research of this study will go a long way to educate the policy makers or law makers in the federation in enhancing decision making.