You work at a television station as a segment video producer. You report to the media department manager, who is the department head. However, you also report to someone who is in charge of a specific project for a client the project manager. That person is your boss in the project chain of command. The functional manager is responsible for all the technical performance of each employee in his or her department, which in this case is video production. The project manager, on the other hand, is responsible to the overall performance of the product team. He or she is the projects boss as far as the client is concerned.

a. Explain the type of organizational structure that is being described?

b. Discuss an advantage and a drawback of this type of organizational structure in the project management process.