Matrix departmentalization combines functional and project departmentalization structures. It is a hybrid organizational form where employees report to both their functional manager and a project manager. An example is a production group that reports to both a production department manager and a project manager, violating the scalar chain of command rule. A matrix structure has both vertical and horizontal reporting lines, like a system of numbers ordered in rows and columns.
2. When we say Matrix departmentalization
combines functional and product
departmentalization and leave it at that we lie.
Why, because that is not its definition.
Okay let me define it and give an example.
3. A matrix structure is a hybrid organizational form,
containing of characteristics of both project and
functional departmentalization(structures). It
could be a form with both product and functional
departmentalization(structures).
Let’s look at a example.
5. In the previous slide, we can see that: employees
are headed by two managers.
Take for example the production group. The
production group stems from the production
department hence they are under the production
manager.
But the production groups are also headed by
project managers.
Hence, the production groups report to two
managers hence scalar chain of command rule is
violated.
6. We can therefore see a matrix because a matrix is
a system of numbers ordered in rows and
columns.
It is 2D. We have rows and columns.
So the organizational structure is both vertical and
horizontal as drawn in the organization chart and
subordinates report to two authorities hence
matrix departmentalization.
7. This chart is not a
matrix structure
because the chart
indicates that all
employees report
to one and only
one manager.
Compare it with
chart on slide 4.
