The Matrix System at Work - Independent Evaluation Group - World ...
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GLOSSARY<br />
Practice managers (PM)<br />
Region<br />
Regional Management Team<br />
Regional m<strong>at</strong>rix<br />
Regional sector department<br />
Regional sector director (RSD)<br />
Regional sector manager<br />
Regional vice president (RVP)<br />
Regional vice president unit<br />
Regional functions<br />
Sector anchor<br />
Sector Board<br />
VPU<br />
<strong>The</strong> PM serves as the chief oper<strong>at</strong>ing officer of the Global Practice.<br />
She or he serves as the “right hand” of the FPD director for all<br />
global practice activities. <strong>The</strong> PM helps formul<strong>at</strong>e practice str<strong>at</strong>egy,<br />
conducts portfolio reviews, handles corpor<strong>at</strong>e mand<strong>at</strong>es, serves as<br />
a broker for project staffing, and serves as a “secretari<strong>at</strong>” for the<br />
Practice Management Team (PMT)<br />
One of six geographic clusters of countries which serves as the<br />
primary organiz<strong>at</strong>ional unit responsible for oper<strong>at</strong>ional delivery<br />
<strong>The</strong> management team of each region, chaired by the RVP<br />
constituting all the directors of CMUs, sector departments, front<br />
office units, and the chief economist of th<strong>at</strong> region<br />
<strong>The</strong> rel<strong>at</strong>ionship between country management units and sector<br />
management units within a region, sometimes referred to as the<br />
“small m<strong>at</strong>rix”<br />
<strong>The</strong> administr<strong>at</strong>ive unit containing a front office and all the relevant<br />
SMUs th<strong>at</strong> fall under the jurisdiction of a network<br />
<strong>The</strong> head of a regional sector department; the RSD reports both to<br />
the NVP and the RVP and is a member of the Network Council and<br />
the Regional Management Team<br />
<strong>The</strong> head of a SMU responsible for the delivery of the SMU’s work<br />
program, the quality of all SMU oper<strong>at</strong>ional products and services,<br />
and management of SMU staff; the regional sector manager is a<br />
member of the relevant Sector Board, representing his or her region<br />
on the Sector Board, and is also a member of the Extended<br />
Leadership Team in the region; in some cases sector managers<br />
have responsibility for more than one sector<br />
<strong>The</strong> administr<strong>at</strong>ive and oper<strong>at</strong>ional head of a region who also<br />
chairs the Regional Management Team; currently the Bank has six<br />
RVPs<br />
Same as the region, sometimes called the regional VPU<br />
Responsibilities and budgets under the RVP, not managed by the<br />
CMUs, SMUs or regional sector departments; this includes <strong>at</strong> a<br />
minimum the front office, chief economist’s office, str<strong>at</strong>egy and<br />
oper<strong>at</strong>ions, and the oper<strong>at</strong>ional services and quality unit<br />
Secretari<strong>at</strong> of the Sector Board loc<strong>at</strong>ed within the network anchor<br />
<strong>The</strong> governing body of a sector, constituted by the managers of the<br />
regional sector management units and the sector anchor, as well as<br />
represent<strong>at</strong>ives of other relevant vice presidencies; the sector<br />
board is chaired by the director of the relevant sector anchor and is<br />
responsible for the sector str<strong>at</strong>egy, quality including knowledge,<br />
learning and oper<strong>at</strong>ional quality, and human resources<br />
management of sector staff including staff recruitment, mentoring,<br />
deployment, and promotion<br />
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