{"id":20326,"date":"2008-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/why-senior-managers-underestimate-the-impact-of-a-matrix\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T15:33:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:33:01","slug":"why-senior-managers-underestimate-the-impact-of-a-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/why-senior-managers-underestimate-the-impact-of-a-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Why senior managers underestimate the impact of a matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Senior managers often underestimate the impact that introducing a matrix structure has on the people below them. The reason for this is that matrix management has very little implication for you if you are at he top of the matrix. Everyone still works for you!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Immediately below this you find the people who are the heads of the \u201clegs\u201d of the matrix. For them too it is relatively easy to carry on thinking about their \u201clinear\u201d objectives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The most senior managers who themselves have multiple reporting often resist the matrix when it is introduced. They often feel that they have lost control over functional resources that they many have \u201cowned\u201d in the past \u2013 for example they used to have their own dedicated Human Resources person, now they share a \u201cbusiness partner\u201d with other parts of the organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><!--more-->For these reasons the people who work at the heart of the matrix \u2013 the group I call the Matrix middle can experience what feels like a lack of management support, particularly in the early stages of implementation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">In our experience, the real opponents of the new structure usually move on (one way or another) and eventually the message gets through. If it does not, then senior manager can expect to experience high levels of escalation of issues to be resolved.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">DJ mentioned this problem on a comment to my previous post &#8211; have you experienced something similar?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why senior managers underestimate the impact of a matrix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","type-blog","training-matrix-management"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why senior managers underestimate the impact of a matrix - 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