3.1: Organizational Structures
Notes
Project Management Organizations
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Functional Organizations
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Projectized Organizations
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Project Team
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Check Your Knowledge
Questions: Project Management Organizations
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Fill in the Blank: Organization Structures: Advantages and Disadvantages
Complete the following table with the advantages and disadvantages of the functional, matrix, and dedicated project team organizations.
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Fill in the Blank: Matrix Organizations
Fill in the types of Matrix organizations in the diagram below, and indicate the relative strength of the functional and project manager’s authorities.
Matching: Know Your Organization
Fill in the number that corresponds to the correct organization type.
A. Recognizing the benefits that the projectized organization has by giving authority to the project manager, functional organizations often organize ___ where a project manager can have authority over the staff assigned to that particular project.
B. The most typical problem with a _____ structure is that communication within the company can be rather rigid, making the organization slow and inflexible. Communication in organizations with these structures can be rigid because of the standardized ways of operation and the high degree of formalization.
C. Project Manager’s Authority is Little or None in a ___ or ___.
D. A project manager is primarily responsible for the project. Functional managers provide technical expertise and assign resources as needed in a ___.
E. In a ___ power is shared equally between the project manager and the functional managers. It brings the best aspects of functional and projectized organizations. However, this is the most difficult system to maintain as the sharing of power is a delicate proposition.
F. Among all three matrix organizations, the project manager’s authority is the weakest in a ____.
G. Among all three matrix organizations, the functional manager’s authority is the weakest in a ____.
H. On the figures below, fill in the circle with the number that corresponds to the correct organizational structure.