ABSTRACT

The project-driven organization system breaks with the traditional approach to project execution, eliminating division of employee allegiance and reducing overhead. In a project-driven organization, the project team operates in a task force setting and works in close association during project execution. Greater responsibility is placed on the project manager in the project-driven organization. He is responsible for training, personnel administration, salary administration, technical and nontechnical staffing, and other tasks ordinarily handled by department management. Since the project-driven organization is not constrained by functional departments, project team members who are technically able to do so often work across discipline lines. The physical plant and the technology on which it is based are essentially the same whether produced under the project-driven organization concept or under the familiar matrix organization concept. Specialists supply an important ingredient in the design of most process plants.