Essay On Project Management Organization

Three types of Project Management Organizations
Generally, there are 3 current types of organizational structure of project management as listed below;
• functional organizational structure
• project-based organizational structure
• matrix organizational structure

1. Functional organizational structure.
Functional organizational structure is to be managed in the current organization hierarchical structure, once the project begins operation, the various components of the project are taken by the functional units, and each unit is responsible for its charged component. If the project established, a functional area play a dominant role, functional areas on completion of the project, senior managers will be responsible for project coordination.

In a Functional Organization, a Project Manager has minimal to no form of authority over resources availability and acts more as a project coordinator. Project Team Members will more than likely remain loyal to their Functional Managers. Projects in a Functional Organization are undertaken by two approaches:
 Divided: Where a department will work on their portion of the project and hand it off to the next department to complete its part, and so on.
 Cross Functional: Where members of different departments work together at the same time on various aspects of the project.
Advantages of this structure are as listed below;
Firstly, the use of personnel with greater flexibility, as long as the choice of a suitable functional departments as the project supervisor, the department will be able to provide professional and technical personnel required by the project, and technology experts can also be used by different projects and after completion of the work can go back to his original work.
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...has responsibility for their parts of the project or organization, and employees get assigned to projects based on the needs of the project, not the strength or weakness of the manager’s position.

 Strong Matrix
 Strong Matrix Organizations share many of the same characteristics of a Projectized Organization where the Project Manager has considerable independence and authority compared to the Functional Manager.

Conclusion
Every organization needs a structure in order to operate systematically. The organizational structures can be used by any organization if the structure fits into the nature and the maturity of the organization.
In most cases, organizations evolve through structures when they progress through and enhance their processes and manpower. One company may start as a pre-bureaucratic company and may evolve up to a matrix organization.