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Sunday, 19 March 2017

What is Coordination ?


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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