Business Organizations
Today’s trend towards greater project-based complexity makes
organizational culture and designs the central theme behind the
ultimate success and failure of any given project. With the emergence
of global markets, projects now take on a wide distribution of project
teams scattered across multiple organizations in a particular supply
chain. If a particular organization is not trained to take on these
new complexities, the selection of a project is thus limited towards
smaller and menial tasks. Most organizations fall under two specific
forms- organic and mechanistic (Olson & Branch, 2002). Organic
companies have a culture in place that deals more with rapidly
changing markets and technologies. Mechanistic companies are more
effective in stable markets that usually do not require a quick
turnover of new projects (Olson & Branch, 2002). Depending on how the
organizational design and the employees who drive these decisions are
defined, the culture is often times the overlooked intangible that
will determine success.
Technology enables employees to better manage complex projects, but
without the right people and the right organizational culture in
place, the propensity for delays, increased costs, and poor quality
will ensue. Effective project management is a function of teamwork,
leadership, communication and cultural ambience. Marvin Weisbord
author of Organizing for the Future, states that project based
organizations must be comprised of the four following elements needed
for success:
· Interdependence (working on important problems in which each
participant has a stake)
· Leadership
· Joi...
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...d strategies, he/she
must first begin to unite the team.
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