The Matrix Organization

It is a truth that a lot of businesses today work on projects that are organized in a matrix. The company allows the horizontal exchange of knowledge and expertise, which is crucial for managing big projects and the procedures involved in product creation. Despite coming from diverse functional disciplines, matrix organizations have the effect of grouping individuals to work together for the same disciplines. An active matrix structure and a weak matrix structure differ significantly. Information silos can be opened up to the rest of the company by using an active matrix organization to break down business information and facilitate communication across the various departments. Secondly, the team makes the delivery of work across the business more efficient, and thus the company gains the ability to manage supply chains and serve global customers. Also, matrix organization helps businesses to respond to changes in priorities and market quickly. On the other hand, matrix form of organization has the weakness of introducing problems in the mid- level management due to the confusion that is brought about by multiple supervisors. Notably, the middle- level management can lose morale of performance specifically due to lack of clarity of the projects presented to them.

Among the pros of a matrix organization for the project management is that pioneers of a particular project are chosen according to the needs of the project. Secondly, the project managers get the unique chance to be directly responsible for finishing the projects within a specific budget and deadline. The cons of a matrix organization for project management include there might be a possible conflict between line and project managers over the appropriation of resources. Secondly, if the teams have a lot of independence, plans monitoring can be difficult. Remarkably, as a projects manager, proper management of the organization structures to solve problems that expedite the realization of a project, and ensuring that the decisions are made by the experts, are some of the things that I would need to do well for a project to work within a matrix organization. For the model to work properly, proper management and supervision of the interdepartmental relationships need to be done.