Committees’ Decision-making Process as Replacement for a Manager: Case Study Upper Nile University

The collective decision-making in public institutions, that are being run in a joint management nature is very vital. As such high learning institution has committees or board that is responsible for decision making. Decision- making process as defined by Robert Sheldon, Ed Burns and Brush (2024) is a series of steps one or more individuals that determine the best option or course of action to address a specific problem or situation. This study attempts to highlighted the early documentation of British Parliamentary committees during 16th Century in the period for reign of James (1) 1603 and Charles (1) 1625. hence, the article has indicated the time in which Upper Nile University was established and subsequent formation of University Council and others University Boards. This study has taken into consideration committees or collective decisionmaking process, types of decision-making, factors that influencing decision-making, importance of decision-making, characteristics of decision-making, advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, the research has articulated study data analysis and finding in which important of decision-making was emphasize with strongly agreement of 50% and those who assured the effectiveness of collective for decision-making that scored 60% for sample of study. Also Challenges in the decision-making process was considered and the only observation is when the board of any council of an institution takes the power of managing director leaving their work of policy making.