Re: Organizations with two or more Managers

"Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote in message news:kxmAd.32$oQ6.66_at_news.oracle.com...
> "DBMS_Plumber" <paul_geoffrey_brown_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1104275498.305568.4860_at_z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> > It might be OK if the management chain was hierarchical, but that ain't
> > so. Project managers might have responsibility for several projects,
> > some of which involve the same individual contributors.
> >
> > What's worse, it ain't even a-cyclic! An individual might be a
> > contributor on project A, a manager of project B, and manage people
> > with certain skills in role C, one of whom is the manager of project A!
> > The landscape of modern business organizations is less and less
> > 'command and control' and more and more 'social networking with shared
> > goals and responsibilites.'
>
> But then, we are talking about ordinary relational structure, not
hierarchy
> or network. There are Projects, ProjectManagers, and
> ProjectIndividualContributors. (That's right, project contributors aren't
> managers:-). The queries "does any individual who manages project X is
also
> an individual contributor to Project Y managed by Z" are sometimes
> interesting. The queries that are transitive closures of the previous
one --
> "show me the longest chain of ProjectManager-IndividualContributor" --
> aren't.
>
>

There's a common sitiation where a person reports directly to a manager but has a "dotted line" relationship with another person. The "dotted line" reasons vary wildly, but the relationship is real. Received on Wed Dec 29 2004 - 01:34:33 CET