Strengths are:
1) Maintains a highly skilled pool of staff who are specialists at their discipline.
2) There is a clear line of authority and co-workers know exactly who to report to.
3) There is a strong culture of organisational learning.
Weaknesses are:
1) Projects will only happen at the functional head of department level.
2) A lack of opportunity to spot talent as co-workers are hidden behind organisational boundaries.
3) A possible lack of motivation amongst staff due to being unable to progress to other parts of the organisation.
Strengths are:
1) The organisation is very focused on the project. There are no business as usual activities to distract the team.
2) The project manager is clearly in charge. He does not have to compete with line managers for resources.
3) Project Manager is able to build his teams to suit the project and able to define clear roles and responsibilities.
Weaknesses are:
1) Little or no career advancement due to the temporary nature of the organisation. This could lead to staff motivation problems.
2) There is little organisational learning as specialist skills are not retained once the project is completed.
3) Under utilisation or duplication of workers. If there are under utilised staff on project, they will not be moved onto another.
Strengths are:
1) There is a strong ethic on resource management. Talent across the organisation should be visible to project managers.
2) Project Managers have clear lines of authority across co workers.
3) Maintains a degree of organisational learning once projects are completed.
Weaknesses are:
1) There is a heavy overhead on the organisation due to a heavy resource management culture.
2) Project Managers will have to be good communicators to be able to influence co workers across the organisation.
3) Project Managers will probably come into conflict with line managers as they compete for resources.
Adam, this good example of a describe question, you can add a drawing but it won’t get any marks unless they specifically ask for it.