Dorothy is working in an organization in which duties are grouped by specialty. John is the project manager, but he is not having influence/power in the project. He is working as an assistant to Dorothy. John is doing mostly administrative tasks in the project. Identify this type of organization structure in which resources are grouped based on specialty and the project manager has less authority.
A. Projectized.B. Strong matrix organization.
C. Weak matrix organization.
D. Functional organization.
Answer: Option D is correct.
Some of the characteristics of a functional organization are:
- Project team reports to functional managers.
- Organization is grouped by functional areas e.g.: marketing, sales, etc.
- Project managers have no much influence/power in this type of organization.
- They work as an assistant to the functional managers.
- Project managers mostly work on administrative tasks in the project.