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In real life, project managers rarely have only one project to focus on, nor do the team members. This creates dual reporting lines that don't follow the traditional organizational structures. How can you use the organization's culture to help minimize conflicting agendas that the team members may have to deal with?

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Project Management-Conflicting agendas

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In order to minimize conflicting agendas arising due to dual reporting lines, organizations should introduce more flexibility in their organization's structure and should modify their existing setup in favor of modern structures such as cross functional and matrix organizational structure, which will impart much needed flexibility for the workers and the employees and will ...

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