Construction Management

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Construction Management
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CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
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Introduction
Construction management refers to a service field that is mainly concerned with the provision of
project timelines, budget, high quality output as a result of effectiveness in the management by
project stakeholders. Construction manager is the head and works with other stakeholders to
realize set targets that are put into place by the owner of the project from the beginning to the
end of the project. There are different construction projects including construction in agriculture,
residential, commercial, institutional extra. Projects must be timely delivered, meet owner’s
specifications and completed under the allocated budget. This report will mainly focus on
comparing and contrasting of organizational structures that are adopted in organizations to
ensure that construction projects are started and completed well. There are four main types of
organizational structures that depend on organizational set goals. Those that will be discussed in
the report include; Functional, product and matrix structures that are based in construction firm.
The report will also have a conclusion part that will summarize the discussion.
Organizational structures
Organizational structure is a system that summarizes how responsibilities of employees are put
into place to enable an organization realize their set objectives at the end of each financial year.
Flow of vital information among employees in organizations is also determined by
organizational structures that are adopted in that particular institution. The three types of
organizational structures that will be discussed are functional, product and matrix structures that
are based in construction management.
Functional organizational structure
Functional organizational structure is a structure in which employees are categorized according
to their specialization. The hierarchy in this structure includes the head, the vice head followed
by the departments in that organization like marketing, packaging departments etc. Supervision
is done by a functional manager who have strong expertise in the same field to ensure effective
utilization of workers’ skills that will enable an organization in accomplishing its goals.
Enquiries are made to the top managements through departmental heads. Workers are
categorized according to their knowledge and competencies that promote increased performance
in the organization. Workers have fixed jobs allocated to them and there is job security for
workers which increase their loyalty. The demerits of the structure include; boredom among
employees which reduce their enthusiastic about their jobs, it is static to new interventions.
Product/ divisional organizational structure
These are structures whereby operations and responsibilities are grouped according to the line of
products produced in a firm. This kind of organizations have divisions with different managers
and workers are assigned duties based on the line of product produced, customers dealt with and
the geographical locations that are served. Each manager is answerable to the organizational
head based on product type. The structure is very flexible to future interventions as compared to
functional structure which is rigid. There is duplication of roles and unfavorable competitions
among divisions.
Matrix organizational structure