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and not having to develop and manage those skills themselves, the divisional or product line organizations can better focus on their core business objectives. This last point was one of the original driving forces behind the development and popularization of matrix organizations. Today, matrix organizations are used to describe more than just the product-based organizations. For example, many IT project managers use smaller matrix-style structures for project and team organizations to track skills, tasks, and resources across multiple projects to ensure skills and resources are used properly. The matrix structure has also been used at Microsoft, and there are more than 5,000 project managers there out of more than 50,000 total employees.14 To sum up, if used properly by companies

through clearly defining each manager’s duties, continuously being improved to meet the organization’s needs, the matrix is probably the most suitable structure for middle-sized and large organizations. References Boone E. Louis, Kurtz L. David: Contemporary Business, 1996. “Organizational Structure”, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_structure Allen, 1970, p. 63. Gerald A. Cole, Management Theory and Practice,2004, p. 192. Boone E. Louis, Kurtz L. David: Contemporary Business, 1996, p.206-207. Keeling and Kallaus, 1996,p. 43. Boone E. Louis, Kurtz L. David: Contemporary Business, 1996, p.206. www.pg.com www.harvard.edu Richard L. Daft, Management, p.334. Organizational Structure”, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_structure Galbraith, 1971 “Matrix

Management” , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_management Scott Berkun: The Art of Project Management, p. 13 Bibliography Boone E. Louis, Kurtz L. David: Contemporary Business, Orlando, FL: The Dryden Press, 1996 Richard L. Daft: Management, Orlando, FL: The Dryden Press, 1997 James M. Higgins: The Management Challenge, New York, Macmillan College Publishing Company, 1994 Gerald A. Cole: Management Theory and Practice, London: Thomson Learning, 2004 Scott Berkun: The Art of Project Management, The USA: O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2005