What is Coordination ?
MEANING
Co-ordination is the process of synchronizing
activities of various persons in the organization in order to achieve goals.
Co-ordination undertaken at every level of management. At the top level the
chief executive will co-ordinate the activities of functional or departmental
managers. If there is lack of co-ordination between production and sales
departments then either production will suffer or sales will suffer. Similarly
I personnel department will like to know the manpower needs of various
departments. No department will be able to function with a proper co-ordination
with finance department. At middle/lower levels of management the deputy
managers / foreman / supervisors will co-ordinate the work of persons working
under them. The purpose of co-ordination is to create team work and harmony in
the enterprise. It is the blending of human efforts in order to achieve better
organization goals.
Co-ordination crease a mental awareness among
all employees and their efforts are directed in unison. An organization is like
a human body. As various parts o the body combine together to do a work,
similarly the different segments of the organization should work in unison so
that task is completed in a better way.
DEFINITIONS
A number of authors have defined
co-ordination differently. The views of some of them are given here in order to
know its exact nature.
HENRY
FAYOL:
"To co-ordinate is to harmonize all the activities of a person in order to
facilitate its working and its success." Co-ordination is necessary to
enable a person to improve his functioning. Without co-ordination, working
cannot be harmonized.
ORDWAY
TEAD: "Co-ordination is the effort to assure a
smooth interplay of the functions and forces of all the different component parts
of an organization to the end that its purpose win be realize with minimum of
friction and maximum of collaboration effectiveness." The purpose of the
co-ordination is to synchronize the functions of various departments for
achieving organizational goals with minimum efforts
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