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Hello, my name is
Dr. Mike Clayton,
and I am the founder
and presenter of
the Management Courses
YouTube channel.
Our topic is Introduction
to Matrix Organisations.
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Let's start by thinking about
what an organisation is.
An organisation is
a group of people,
assets, materials,
and knowledge that
all coordinate together to meet
a set of objectives or
to serve a purpose.
When we have a large or
complex endeavour
that is too big for
a self-coordinating
group of people to
hold in their heads and
to work together on
without infrastructure
around it,
that need for control
demands an organisation.
But it's foolish to think
of organisations as huge.
Some can be very
small, like a project.
In order to bring the
resources together,
organisations have
an infrastructure
with which they can hold
those resources and
deploy them so that
they can carry out
a range of interrelated
activities.
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A good definition of
organisations was given to us by
the management theorist and
business school academic
Richard Pascal,
who said that organisations are,
in the last analysis,
interactions among people.
This view of organisations as
a network of relationships
is especially true of
matrix organisations,
as we shall see.
Organisations can be either
temporary or permanent.
Temporary organisations
include teams that
are convened for
a single purpose,
projects, expeditions,
crews, or committees.
More permanent
organisations include
enterprises,
corporations, companies,
partnerships, charities,
governmental authorities,
or indeed public sector
organisations like
schools, hospitals,
local government,
military units, and of course,
the emergency services.
In the social realm,
clubs and associations are
also examples of organisations.
