In 2004, White Manufacturing realized the necessity for project management in the manufacturing group. A three-person project management staff was formed. Although the staff was shown on the organizational chart as reporting to the manufacturing operations manager, they actually worked for the vice president and had sufficient authority to integrate work across all departments and divisions. As in the past, the vice president's position was filled by the manufacturing operations manager. Manufacturing operations was directed by the former manufacturing manager, who came from manufacturing engineering. (See Figure l.) FIGURE I White Manufacturing organizational structure QUESTION 2 [14 MARKS] Critically discuss the value of a synergetic relationship among stakeholders in a project environment and the techniques used to accomplish this. In 2007, the manufacturing manager created a matrix in the manufacturing department with the manufacturing engineers acting as departmental project managers. This benefited both the manufacturing manager and the group project managers since all information could be obtained from one source. Work was flowing very smoothly. In January 2008, the manufacturing manager resigned his position effective March, and the manufacturing engineering manager began packing his bags to move up to the vacated position. In February, the vice president announced that the position would be filled from outside. He said also that there would be an organizational restructuring and that the three project managers would now report to the manufacturing manager. When the three project managers confronted the manufacturing operations manager, he said, "We've hired the new man in at a very high salary. In order to justify this salary, we have to give him more responsibility" In March 2008, the new manager took over and immediately made two declarations: 1. The project managers will never go "upstairs" without first going through him. 2. The departmental matrix will be dissolved, and the department manager will handle all of the integration