By

Ragi.Bhavani
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Traditional form of organisation is not suitable
for project management ;comment
Introduction
Purpose
Objectives
Literature review
Methodology
Implication
Conclusion
Today there are two main flows of organization
run concurrently; One Traditional
Organization, established in between 20th
century another is Modern Organization
emerged in this ongoing century. There are
huge differences between these two trends.
Why the traditional organization criticizes the
modern as a misguided and vulnerable
organization? What’s the real fact?
 Generally the meaning of organization is an entity
comprising multiple people, such as an institution
or an association that has a collective goal and is
linked to an external environment.
Project management:
Project management is the practice of initiating,
planning, executing ,controlling, and closing the
work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet
specific success criteria at the specfied time
The purpose is to illustrate the main points of
disagreement
 Stability: People believe that traditional organizations are stable
in their activities and progress. On the other hand modern one is
more dynamic with its multiple business strategy. They need
multiple progress and constant changes.

 Flexibility: Modern Organizations are always flexible to change

their workflow, focuses as well as connectivity. There the
organization is need to update their competitive advantages and
the employees are required to upgrade their knowledge and skills.
Traditional Organizations are fixed inflexible and planned.

 Hierarchy: Modern Organizations flow “Flat Hierarchy” and

Traditional flow “Tall Hierarchy”
 Teamwork: Team work is the main concept of modern
organization. The organization who build more effective
team can gain more. On the other hand a traditional one
follows a chain of command where every employee should
be obeyed to his superior.

 Employee Morale: As an employee of a modern organization get

more freedom and flexibility to exchange his or her assessment.
Consequently in this type of organization you find high employee
morale. Traditional is a job oriented organization so you are not
sure about the matter of employee morale.

 Technology:Modern Organization is more technology based

and boundary less. So the number of employee or the office
compartment doesn’t matter. But traditional organizations
are centralized and backward to accept advanced
technology.
So today is the right time to think about the business
model of your organization. In present situation public
demands are unlimited and their attention become
diversified. So you should be more dynamic, more
virtual and more advanced in modern technology.
The assumption about this traditional form of
organizations that were made previously states
that, In most of the organizations authoritarian
power relationships, lead to the following
unhealthy, unproductive patterns..
This information is collected form different
source and the experiences shared by different
employees and workers who had been in
traditional organizations.
The study helps members of future
organizations how to resist in traditional
organizations and able to be flexible,
responsive and react to change quickly.
The traditional project management was the very
start of project management and its contribution to
how we manage projects nowadays will always be
applauded. Not that this article makes traditional
project management an obsolete project
management approach, it rather just pits the
traditional with the new age dynamic. Traditional
project management is still used in some industries
that have a fixed timeframes for everything and for
linear processing of work.