The Importance of Meeting in Management Level

In the government organization, meeting being done regularly and rigours especially meeting that involve policies and big impact in the government agencies. These meeting are often lead by leader of the top management level.

One of the main objective of the government is to manage the country resources. In doing so, many policies has been derive to meet the agenda. With the agenda is being lay-up, the agencies will have to deliver it to make sure objective are accomplish. As such regular management meeting mush be held to monitor the performance of the delivery system.

Therefore, meeting is very important in order to conclude decision by the management level. Meeting in the government sector are discuss according to the agenda being set. The meeting members are invited based on their role in the government, expertise and experience or based on their position in the organization.

The aim of all meeting is to gain a fruitful decision so that it could contribute to an enhance operation or solving problems. Thus, meeting also can be regard as the process of decision making.

2.Issue

As a person who hold a managerial level post, his or her role has high prominence in his division that he is handling. Therefore, time is very valuable for him. However, being in a meeting can be very time consuming in government.

Therefore, is longer meeting contributes to less efficacy in workforce? Meeting can be stretch due to weak of decision making process. How the organization behave and think may contribute to the longer meeting hours.

If meeting can be done in a short and precise manner by the leader, the employee can have more time to settle order task, thus making him more productive.

The issue here is the decision process in a meeting...

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...g features of cooperation:

a) leaders’ directive promotion of proposals,

b) lack of treatment of participants’ objections as interruptions,

c) in-floor comments that help in continuing a proposal, and

d) Interweaving patterns in which participants cooperate in producing a decision.

Leaders’ facilitation should probably consider the task structure of the meeting (Murrell, Stewart, & Engel, 1993). For example, when the task is “additive” and requires aggregation of individual efforts, participation in decision making will be effective if it is consensual; if the task is “disjunctive” and requires selection of the best solution from an array, participation will be effective if it is conflictive. Moreover, facilitation of participative decision making can solve problems of time pressure, which can reduce the possibility of active participation (Berry, 2006).