Organizations for project management in the defense industry.
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McCullough, Carl Preston
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1973-03Advisor
Kline, Melvin B.
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Haga, William J.
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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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