10 Questions
What is the primary role of the Project Manager (PM) in the reporting relationships described?
Negotiates for employees
In the described relationships, where do employees primarily receive functional progress from?
LM
What is the relationship between employees and the project in most organizations as explained in the text?
Solid to the project and dotted to their function
When line managers commit to deliverables, whose responsibility is it to achieve these deliverables according to the text?
Assigned functional employees
What makes the situation of reporting to multiple individuals awkward for employees as mentioned in the text?
Project managers with more technical knowledge than line managers
In a matrix structure, what type of reporting relationship exists between employees and their project managers?
Dotted line
What type of projects would involve situations where project managers have more technical knowledge than line managers?
'Heavyweight' projects
When employees report on a 'solid' line to their functional manager, what does this indicate?
'Solid' commitment to their function
What kind of reporting structure do employees typically have when working on several projects simultaneously?
'Dotted' line reporting structure
In what situation do employees find themselves in when reporting solidly to their functional manager but dottedly to the project?
them awkwardly reporting to multiple individuals.
Learn about the shared authority and responsibility between project managers and line managers in project management. Understand the conflict of interest that may arise when project and line managers are the same person.
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