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Devarshi Joshi replied to the topic Matrix Organization- Conflict in the forum Organizational Development in Device Companies 6 years, 4 months ago
It is a type of organizational structure in which people with similar skills are pooled for work assignments, resulting in more than one manager.It does has advantages but also some disadvantages that I would like to talk about. One of the disadvantage is it creates a conflict of loyalty between line managers and project managers over the allocation of resources.Secondly the projects can be difficult to monitor if teams have a lot of independence(flexibility can turn into disadvantage).Automatically costs increases if there are more project managers that are created through the use of project teams.Organizational efficiencies are very difficult to identify because benchmarking headcount against revenue is not possible due to the scattered nature of the supporting functions. So this creates a conflict in Matrix Organization between advantages and disadvantages.