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A Case Study of Project Team Motivation in relation to Project Model Usage in the Matrix Organisation

In a matrix structure, each employee answers to two immediate supervisors: a department supervisor and a project manager. The department supervisor is charged with overseeing employees in a functional area such as marketing or engineering. Project supervisors manage a specific and often impermanent project. They absorb employees from various functional areas to complete their project teams. This kind of organizational structure has several advantages especially if the project managers identify their team strengths and weakness early. Directing the staff with effective leadership skills is a key role as a project manager. A clear direction of the project from start to completion is vital. Therefore, the project managers must carry top notch planning and organizational skills. To follow the WBS and have a clear understanding of the importance of remaining on budget throughout the entire project is mandatory. The experienced project manager must keep planning, staffing, budgeting and scheduling and other control techniques under wrap, by utilizing their administrative skill according to Project Management, (Kerzner, 2013). Although the administrative and other techniques are important, in this particular project, each project manager must work closely as a team member and example. Building the team and each departmental manager into a working cohesive team, could be the true

With the exceptional growth in technology, the present day projects are often large and complex involving a significant risk. So, a Project Management Methodology enables the delivery organization to handle these projects comprehensively, systematically and in an integrated manner, which results in strategic, tactical and operational benefits.

In the beginning of the NFL, players were only punished for violating gambling policies. Paul Tagliabue’s, Roger Goodell’s predecessor, tenure as commissioner resulted rare suspension for off-field issues. The NFL policies and discipline have only recently changed to a coercive and legitimate power governed by the reigning NFL commissioner. Since the start of Roger Goodell’s reign, discipline for off-field conduct has dramatically risen. Goodell has strengthened his resolve by implementing an unprecedented personal conduct policy in 2007, to be followed throughout the

Everyone on the team shares the processes for performing project work, communication, conflict resolution, and decision making. The projectized structure enhances project productivity and efficiency because more time can be devoted to doing work rather than creating systems to support doing the work.

I believe that the advantages to the matrix approach apply to Tyson foods. They have more efficient uses of resource expertise available to all divisions. They are more flexible, and adaptable to the changing environment. I would say that all of the advantages of the one stated in the textbook are the similar to what Tyson Foods used. I am sure that there are disadvantages which lead to frustration and confusion from the dual chain of commands. Even though it doesn’t state that there is high conflict between both sides of the matrix, there probably is a lot of it going on. There would be many meetings involved at Tyson foods, which is a great disadvantages for the employees and

He should have explained to Olds that the Johnsonville project is getting bogged down and the team is slipping behind schedule. Palmer should have been force Olds to follow his schedule strictly. Due to Olds expertise, Palmer should have maintained a good relationship with him and offer him some rewards like Crosby.

Different lateral structural arrangements used within organizations that exclude project teams, matrix structures, organic systems, and professional organizations.

“A matrix organizational structure represents the middle ground between functional and project structures. Personnel often report both to a functional manager and one or more project managers” (Schwalbe, 2014). In the CDB project Corporate Banking, Corporate Trust, and Consumer banking involve to this project. Project Management Office is a good way to coordinate the contradiction between those divisions.

A matrix environment is where an individual is responsible for maintaining multiple reporting relationships, most typically this includes a project manager in addition to a department head (Matrix Organization, n.d.). In an educational setting, this is seen when a student has assignments and responsibilities to more than one “manager” professor in addition to outside employment managers.

1. Discuss the project management organization on the project. Strengths? Weaknessess? Recommendations. Parks Corporation used a matrix project management organization on the Blue Spider Project. It was a multi-disciplinary team where the members came from different functional units such as Research and Development, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality Control, Purchasing, and Finance. Gary Anderson, the Project Manager, was responsible for the project but his responsibility for performance of the individual phases of the work to be accomplished on the project remained with the functional managers. Anderson assigned, monitored, and coordinated work among the project team. But, the functional managers had

Balanced/Functional Matrix: A project manager is assigned to oversee the project. 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 power is delicate proposition.

The matrix structure integrates two structures together, often geographical and multi product structures. For example, a company may have a department for a product A in Europe and for Product A in Asia. One of the advantages of the Matrix structure is the convenience of experts simplifying the sharing of knowledge between the goods. Another advantage of the matrix structure is intra-team communication, this allows ease of communication between the different functional product groups within the same organisation, and similarly there is less pressure on managers, quality monitoring is easier and skills are interchanged within departments of the same function thus improving efficiency.

There are several different organizational structures that corporations use today and they all have their advantages and disadvantages. There are however three main organizational structures that are the most common: matrix, boundary-less, and those that maintain organizational learning environments, otherwise known as a learning organization. Matrix organizations themselves are a cross of both a traditional functional structure and a product structure. Employees report both to department managers and also work in projects or product teams allowing for talents and skills to be shared cross-departmentally promoting high levels of communication and cooperation between those departments. Downsides of the matrix structure ,however, There are several different organization structures that corporations use today and they all have their advantages and disadvantages. There are however three main organizational structures that are the most common: matrix, boundary-less, and those that maintain organizational learning environments, otherwise known as a learning organization. Matrix organizations themselves are a cross of both a traditional functional structure and a product structure. Employees report both to department managers and also work in projects or product teams allowing for talents and skills to be shared cross-departmentally promoting high levels of communication and cooperation between those departments. Downsides of the matrix structure however can be significant and

Syngenta operates in multidisciplinary markets which require various skills and expertise. Some of the company’s markets according to the company’s website include crop protection, seeds, flowers, turf and landscape, and bioline. These fields are specialized fields and require people with high scientific and technical background than just a business background (marketing, manufacturing, supply chain and logistics, finance and purchasing). To fulfill its mission which according to the site is “Bringing plant potential to life”, the company relies on the various knowledge, skills, competencies and talents of its human resource pulled from their usual functions to work together on each project the company undertakes. The matrix structure promotes coordination among team members and among team members and their supervisor, facilitates sharing of knowledge and expertise among employees drawn from different departments, enables complex decision making in the face of an unstable environment such as the one in which Syngenta operates and promote effective communication required for the various functions to work together more