ybrid organizational structure attempts to combine the advantages of both product/process based and functional based structures "while avoiding the weaknesses of each" (Gortner, Mahler, and Nicholson, 1989, p. 110). The matrix organizational structure groups staff into functional areas, with temporary assignments to special project groups, or teams (Gortner, Mahler, and Nicholson, 1989, p. 110). Such special project teams are multi functional in character (Gortner, Mahler, and Nicholson, 1989, p. 110). This approach to the team concept "produces a matrix in which the columns represent projects and the tows represent functional departments" (Gortner, Mahler, and Nicholson, 1989, p. 110). The matrix is "a fairly complex form of organization and is generally both costly and time consuming to administer because of all of the crosscutting of lines of authority and accountability that must be coordinated" (Gortner, Mahler, and Nicholson, 1989, p. 110).
Team based organization is another form of structure "in which members of different functional departments work together in small, but more or less permanent, teams headed by the membe
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