Hyten Case Study

Hyten Case study

Identify and describes five major problems facing the management of HytenCorporation in accepting formalized project management

There are many problems faced by Hyten Corporation due to accepting formalizedproject management. One of the major problems, there will be conflict between functionalmanager and project manager. There should be at the same grade level and neither one hasauthority over the other

One of the problem is trying to decide whether to hire from within or outside the organization. As mentioned by Jason Finney (Assistant Director of Presonnel), Hyten should stop hiring from outside the organization as there are many competent people within the organization who possess MBA degrees in System or Project Management and the familiarity with the company. In his opinion, this would actually be an advantage to the organization.

Also, if Hyten continues to hire outsiders, it would create some distention from the current employees. Competent people at Hyten will start filtering to places of new employment.

Sue Lyons (Director of Personnel) agreed with Jason that filtration will take place if personals from outside the organization were hired to manage Projects. Also, Hyten can expect backlash from people who have to teach employees their new roles .

According to John Rich (Director of Engineering), there is no need to “change a winning combination” as the implementation of Project Management would “mess things up”. In his view, the current system at Hyten has a good chain of command and the new matrix would only create problems.

The main problem addressed by John is that the Engineering Department is a very technical and they cannot take directions from someone outside the department. In addition, bringing someone from outside the organization would only make it worse.