Corporate engineering of a large corporation usually assumes control of all plant expansion projects in each of its plants for all projects over $25 million. For each case below, discuss the ramifications of this, assuming that there are several other projects going on in each plant at the same time as the plant expansion project.
a. The project manager is supplied by corporate engineering and reports to corporate engineering, but all other resources are supplied by the plant manager.
b. The project manager is supplied by corporate but reports to the plant manager for the duration of the project.
c. The plant manager supplies the project manager, and the project manager reports “solid” to corporate and “dotted” to the plant manager for the duration of the project.