Managing Temporary Organizations: Challenges and Prospects

Abstract

This paper examines Managing Temporary Organizations: Challenges and Prospects. It is basically an exploratory analysis. The paper explores the special challenges created by virtue of the temporary character of an organization, especially with regard to the kinds of people typically assigned to it, the work process that generates its output, the special demands made of its manager, and a host of other human resource management challenges. It also offers a number of prospects/potential benefits of temporary organizations to the economy/the study of organization and management. Awareness of the challenges inherent in the nature of temporary organizations coupled with the appropriate management responses and their prospects to the economy/the study of organization and management; can hopefully permit us to function more productively as members of temporary organizations, and thus offers suggestions to those who manage people.

Keywords: Temporary Organizations, Projectification, Managing, Challenges,