- A lack of clear responsibility;
- Clashes of priority between product and function;
- Functions lose control of the psychological contract;
- Career development can often be stymied;
- Difficult for one specialist to appraise performance of another discipline in multi-skilled teams;
- Project managers are reluctant to impose authority as they may be subordinates in a later project;
- Employees may be confused by reporting to two bosses;
- Managers will need to be able to resolve interpersonal frictions and may need training in human relations skills;
- Managers spend a great deal of time in meetings to implement successfully.
- The complexity of the matrix structure makes it difficult to implement successfully.