Company’s top level authorities

Company’s top level authorities should get their Employees in decision-makings

This article is to discuss whether employees should be participating in company decisions. In the past only top managers are required to make strategy decisions in many aspects like finances, manufactures, human resources and logistics etc, but in modern society with bigger enterprises, more and more top level authorities are seeking opinions from employees in decision making. 

In my view, it was more time and cost effective for top managers to make company decisions only based on their own experience and insights in the past, and Employees should be hired and asked to do things within their job description. Top managers should be able to give detailed instructions for employees to follow and revise and adjust the management decisions in time to guarantee the company structure working smoothly. 

Secondly, most employees were not intelligent enough to participate in decision making, they didn’t have a full understanding of the whole corporation and they were incapable of taking the responsibility in decision making. 

However, with the new technologies and higher education employees received in modern society, involving employees in decision making may benefit the company as well. Say, for example it is the employees who work in the front line and they know exactly what are the new problems happening within the organisation. When Employees have some first hand information about what is happening in the company, it will be risky for top managers to make decisions without listening to their employees or it is time consuming after top managers to conduct too many meetings with employees. Therefore top level authorities should promote line managers among their employees and get them in certain decision-makings. 

All in all, it is believed that there are both disadvantages and advantages in getting employees in decision-making. Top authorities should fully balance the disadvantages and advantages to run the company effectively by authorising their employees to make some decisions and report properly to their higher level managers.