Question

I used to be a Supervisor in a retail store of clothing to be more specific. The structure was so confusing there since the manager always had different thoughts. There was more than one manager since the stores have different departments. I used to go in and every time each one of them has a different task for me. The manager was always on different pages. In that company, there was a lack of communication between then. For that reason, I left the company.

Any thoughts? Please comment me

Answer 1

You were clearly working in a Matrix structure, as its in the matrix structure in which one has to report to more than one manager, which is clearly happening with this retail store. Managing coordination among those managers, and still being effective is the biggest challenge one faces in a matrix organizational structure. In my opinion, you should not have left your job, rather you should have tried to brief the management and try to bring all of these three to come on the page and manage your works accordingly.