Organizations for project management in the defense industry.
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Authors
McCullough, Carl Preston
Subjects
project management
matrix organization
vertical organization
functional organization
matrix organization
vertical organization
functional organization
Advisors
Kline, Melvin B.
Date of Issue
1973-03
Date
March 1973
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
In recent years, companies involved in contracting with
the Department of Defense have organized project offices to
manage the development and production of defense systems.
The organizational structures and authority relations of these
offices are unlike those common to other activities. This
study sought to identify and explain the relationships that
exist between structural and authority variables of project
management systems. Data was collected by structured survey
questionnaires directed to project managers and related
functional managers. A correlational analysis was employed
to measure the strength of relationships between attitudes and
structural variables.
Although the dollar value of a project proved to be an
important structural variable, the most reliable predictor
of a manager's perceived authority was the number of layers
between him and the top level of corporate management.
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Thesis
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Department
Operations Research and Administrative Sciences
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.