ABSTRACT
This research is concerned with inquiring. The use
of committees and group meeting in enhancing decision making in Anambra State
House of Assemble. The problems facing this research work is the inadequate use
of committee and group meeting in solving the day to day problem of the House.
The main purpose of this study is to identify how committee and group meetings
are used in the Anambra state house of assembly to enhance decision making and
also to assess the important and impact of group meeting. The research question that guided this
research work was included. They researcher post three hypothesis. The theory
employed in this research work focus on forest maltzman (1995) who proposed a
conditional model of committee behaviour and others. This work carried an
indebt literature review on similar works carried out by other scholars like
Mackenna (1974). The methodology of this work is descriptive in nature and the
method of data collection is based on primary and secondary sources, the
population size was 2000 and sampling technique adopted was yaro yamein, After
distribution the researcher collected 150 questionnaire which was used for data
analysis and simple percentage was employed during data analysis, the hypothesis
was tested using chi-square. The hypothesis was either accepted or rejected. Based
on the above findings of this research work it was reveal that those who took
part in decision making are highly literate. The researcher then concluded that
the use of committee and group meeting enhances decision making. The following
were recommended, that the government of Anambra state should erect the present
legislative edifice in order to have enough rooms for committee facilities,
since their deliberations are always time consuming and tiresome and also
should borrow a leaf form their administrative machinery.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page
Approval
page………......................................................………...…...i
Dedication
…………………………………………………......…......ii
Acknowledgement……………………………...……………............iii
Abstract……………………………………………………......…......iv
Table of contents……………………………………...…....................v
CHAPTER ONE:
INTRODUCTION…………………………………...….....................1
1.0 Background of the study ……………………………………...2
1.1
Statement of the problem……………………………................3
1.2
Purpose of the study………………………………....…............4
1.3
Research Question …………………………….....…................5
1.4
Statement of Hypothesis ……………………………..…..……6
1.5
Theoretical frame work…………………………………….......6
1.6
Significance of the study………………………………………8
1.7
Scope of the study……………………………………...............9
1.8
Limitation of the study………………………………………...9
1.9
Definition of terms
……………………………………..........10
CHAPTER TWO:
Introduction …………………………………......................…..........13
2.1
The concept of committees & group meetings ........................13
2.2
House of assembly....................................................................21
2.3
The speaker and functions Government ..................................28
2.4
General overview of the law of group meeting .......................31
2.5
Committees and group meeting in the House of Assembly ....37
2.6
The opposition party in the House of assembly .......................43
CHAPTER THREE:
RESEARCH DESING AND METHODOLOGY………….....…….49
3.1 Design
of the study………………………………..............….49
3.2 Area
of the study…………………………………..........…….49
3.3 Population
of the study……………………………............….49
3.4 Sample
size / sampling techniques……….….....................….50
3.5 Instrument
for data collection ……………....................…….51
3.6 Reliability
of the instruments ………………….................….51
3.7 Validity
of the instruments ……………….................……….53
3.8 Distribution
and Retrieval of the instrument ……….....…….53
3.9 Method
of data Analysis ………………...………….........….53
CHAPTER FOUR:
DATA
PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS .......................54
4.1 Data
Presentation ……………………...…………...........….54
4.2 Analysis
of research question ……………………….....…….57
4.3 Testing
of Hypothesis ……………………………....…….60
4.4 Interpretation
of results ………………………………..….….66
CHAPTER FIVE:
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS / CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1
Summary of Findings ………………………….............…….67
5.2
Conclusion …………………………………......................….69
5.3
Recommendation …………………………………........…….70
References………………………………........................…….72
Appendices…………………..........................................…….73
Questionnaires
………………………………................…….73
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Mc Kenna and Fleming (1977) defined committee as “A
group of individuals which is formed to consider and report on various matter
which have been referred to them”. At the out set it will be necessary to
explain in a compendium the two major terms of the topic for better
understanding. A committee can be for important issue is that it is responsible
to the body, which forms it, and infact reports to at the end of its
assignment.
While there is a specific connotation on the
formation of committee towards the performances of an identified and specific
task a meeting according to shaw et al (1965) is “An assembly of person such
assembly may arise in circumstance infinitely diverse in their character and
combination.From this definition, a group meeting is just a meeting of a group
of people with common objective and interest; it may be a committee,The primary
pre-occupation of the house of assembly anywhere is the holding of group
meetings because it is only through such meeting that decisions can be reached
on its varied functions.
Since the legislative time is limited matters to be
deal with most of the time either technical or highly specialized, the need
therefore arises to form committees to solve problems. This is exactly the case
in the Anambra State House of Assembly Awka. while a body containing many
members is suitable for discussing principles, it is in appropriate for the
examination of details. The usual course is to form a committee of a few
members in the House, which can discuss details of the proposals and report
back to the full body of the house with recommendation.
1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Anambra state is one of the youngest state carved
out of old Anambra in August 1991. It is one out of the present thirty-six
states of the federation. The state has a brief spell of House of Assembly
business and within the period, the speaker of the House of Assembly used
profusely the committee and groups meetings in dealing with so many delicate
and complex matters or problems. most often some matters in the House require
expertise and specialist knowledge such matter wre better handled by selective
committee to handle and report to the open house made up of few professional
and very many generalist.
1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Before the inception of the House of Assembly in the
present democratic depensation, the military had been responsible for making
laws but at that time, it was edict in the state and decrees at the federal.
These were in practice during the military requires.
The
various administrative sets up have been organized into organs. The executive,
who is to carry out the laws, the judiciary who is to interpret the laws and
the legislative are to focus the laws.
It is
the legislative arm of government that we are most concerned with, it is this
organ that uses committee and group meetings in solving their problems. there
were complain after a brief stay of the House that they have not performed satisfactorily the
business of the House of Assembly through inadequate use of committee and group
meeting in solving the day to day problem of the House, ie the House of
Assembly Anambra state Awka
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 STUDY
Committee 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 QUESTIONS
1 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 making
3 To what extend has the quality of members
selected to served in various committee helped in decision making.
1.4 STATEMENT
OF HYPOTHESIS
1 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 WORK
There 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 STUDY
Due 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.
Such knowledge will guide and direct them to achieve
their decision fast without delay this will no doubt contribute to national
growth politically, economically, socially morally and otherwise.
1.7 SCOPE OF
THE STUDY
This project is directed to Anambra State House of
Assembly Awka. The areas of study therefore is wide to cover within the limited
time and resource available specifically, this research is intended to analyze
the use of committee and group meeting in enhancing decision making
particularly Anambra state of committee and group meeting but study will only
select some committee that are of interest to this study. Also in 36 states of
the federation each state has their own House of Assembly but our study will select
Anambra state House of Assembly as a case study.
1.8 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
It is common with the study of this nature that
certain constraint must be encountered. What promptly from not achieving most
or all of the information required is due to some non-chalet attitude of the
members of the House of Assembly.
Accurate information was given by the members that
showed concern. Some of the questionnaire were unable to collect data. Because
some of the members were reluctant to respond ot question and some were not
properly answered thus constituted analysis problem.
Again as a student I lack finance to forge ahead
with my project work and lack of fund for transportation and obtain of
important document such as magazine and books relating to the topic are major
constraints and limitation.
1.9 DEFINITION OF TERM
Term which from the caption of this research work
are defined:
A: Committee and Group meeting.
Committees are session or composition of individuals
or export, set up to deals with bills in the House of Assembly at the formative
stages or to tackle other matter, which are better discussed in camera by a few
people. The committees in the House of Assembly are many but the most
outstanding ones are:
A.
The standing
committee
B.
The committee of
ways and means
C.
The select
committee
D.
The private bill
committee
Their importance rest in their
capability to arrive at decision within speed and precision and to address
issues for which hey are established.
B
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
The house of Assembly is the composition of people who gather in the
House for deliberation towards administering
the entire state.
The individuals who make up the house
are admitted through valid electorate constituencies process.The state is
carved out into electorate constituencies and these individuals register with
INEC [independent national electoral commission] they are voted for through
voted by poll or other methods devised by the commission.those of them who win
the house of Assembly by oath for the legislature decision making.
Naturally, the government organ consist
of the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. The House of Assembly is the
legislative arm of government and they are charged with law making
functions.
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