The document discusses coordination in organizations. It defines coordination as organizing different people or things to work together for a common goal. It provides examples of how coordination is important for various management functions like planning, organizing, staffing, directing, communicating, motivating and controlling. It emphasizes that coordination is essential for management as it affects all management functions and helps achieve objectives efficiently with optimal resource utilization.

1. Team Leader: Group Members:
Saad Munami Shafia
Saad-Ur-Rehaman
Shoaib Nazim

3. What is coordination?
It is an act of organizing,
making different people
or things work together
for a goal or effect to
fulfill desired goals in an
organization.

4. COORDINATION AND COOPERATION
Basis Co-ordination Co-operation
• MEANING • Orderly arrangement of • Mutual help willingly.
group efforts.
• PROCESS • Performed by top • Perform by persons at any
management. level.
• REQUIREMENTS • It is required by employees • Emotional in nature.
at work irrespective of their
work.
• RELATIONSHIP • Establish formal and
informal relationships. • Establishes informal
relationship.
• FREEDOM • Planned and interested by
central authority. • Depends upon the sweet
will of the individuals.
• SUPPORT • It seeks wholehearted
support from various • It is fruitless without co-
people working at various ordination. It lead to
levels. unbalanced developments.

5. Types Of Co-ordination
1 Co-ordinating within the individual.
2 Co-ordinating among Individual of a group.
✓ 3 Co-ordinating among groups of an enterprise.
4 Co-ordinating along Enterprises and forces of world.

6. SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF LACK OF
COORDINATION
DELAY
When there is a lack of coordination between management, labor, production and sales, delays will
1 result causing the organization to become ineffective. When delays become part of the operations of the
organization, customer relations will suffer for the organization..
DUPLICATION
With redundancy, an organization will spend double the effort, material and time to produce the same
2 item twice. Redundancy typically results from a lack of coordination between various departments within
the organization.
LOST DATA
When this information is not readily available as needed within the organization, the lack of information
3 can create a cascading effect that will damage the organization. Lack of coordination creates gaps in
the acquisition and distribution of information.
INFLEXIBILITY
When an organization does not support coordinated efforts, innovation and progress can become
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4 stagnant within it. This can make the organization obsolete and unable to compete against other
organizations in the same industry that have adopted a coordinated effort to adapting new methods of
producing and managing the organization.

7. CHALLENGES FACED WHEN WE
WORK TOGETHER
1 INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS V/S COORDINATION
2 MISTRUSTFUL BEHAVIOR
3 LACK OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS
4 RACISM AND OTHER FORM OF DISCRIMINATION
5 LACK OF STRONG LEADERSHIP
6 SENSE OF POWERLESSNESS

8. Encourages team spirit.
There exist many conflicts between individuals, departments, between a line and staff, etc. Similarly,
conflicts are also between individual objectives and organisational objectives. Coordination arranges the
1 work and the objectives in such a way that there are minimum conflicts. It encourages the employees to
work as a team and achieve the common objectives of the organisation.
Gives proper direction.
There are many departments in the organisation. Each department performs different activities.
2 Coordination integrates (bring together) these activities for achieving the common goals or objectives of
the organisation.
Facilitates motivation.
Coordination gives complete freedom to the employees. It encourages the employees to show initiative.
3 It also gives them many financial and non-financial incentives. Therefore, the employees get job
satisfaction, and they are motivated to perform better.
Makes optimum utilization of resources.
Coordination helps to bring together the human and materials resources of the organisation. It helps to
4 make optimum utilization of resources. These resources are used to achieve the objectives of the
organisation. Coordination also minimizes the wastage of resources in the organisation.

9. Helps to achieve objective quickly.
Coordination helps to minimise the conflicts, wastages, delays and other organisational problems. It
5 ensures smooth working of the organisation. Therefore, with the help of coordination an organisation can
achieve its objectives easily and quickly.
Improves relations in the organization.
The Top Level Managers co-ordinates the activities of the Middle Level Managers and develops good
relations with them. Similarly, the Middle Level Managers co-ordinates the activities of the Lower Level
6 Managers and develops good relations with them. Also, the Lower Level Managers co-ordinates the
activities of the workers and develops good relations with them. Thus, coordination overall improves the
relations in the organisation.
Lead to higher efficiency.
Efficiency is the relationship between Returns and Cost. There will be higher efficiency when the returns
7 are more and the cost is less. Since coordination leads to optimum utilisation of resources it results in
more returns and low cost. Thus, coordination leads to higher efficiency.
Improves goodwill of the organisation.
Coordination helps an organisation to sell high quality goods and services at lower prices. This
8 improves the goodwill of the organisation and helps it earn a good name and image in the market and
corporate world.

10. COORDINATION IN AN
ORGANIZATION
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11. TOP
MANAGER
MIDDLE MIDDLE
MANAGER MANAGER
FIRST- LINE FIRST- LINE FIRST- LINE
MANAGER MANAGER MANAGER
WORK WORK WORK
GROUP GROUP GROUP

12. COORDINATION IS THE ESSENCE
OF MANAGEMENT
"Co-ordination is the Essence of
Management." The meaning of
this sentence implies, Co-
ordination affects all the
functions of management. In
other words, Co-ordination
affects Planning, Organising,
Staffing, Directing,
Communication, Leading,
Motivating and Controlling.

13. According to Harold Koontz and Cyril
PLANNING AND O'Donnell, "Planning is deciding in advance
COORDINATION what to do, how to do it, when to do it and who is
to do it."
There are many steps in Organising. All these steps must be
coordinated, for achieving the objectives of the business. The Top Level
ORGANISING
Managers must coordinate the efforts of the Middle Level Managers.
AND Similarly, the Middle Level Managers must coordinate the efforts of the
COORDINATION. Lower Level Managers. Furthermore, the Lower Level Managers must
. also coordinate the efforts of the workers.
Staffing involves Recruitment and Selection, Training,
Placement, Promotion, Transfer, etc. All these steps must be
STAFFING AND properly coordinated. Similarly, the efforts of all the
COORDINATION. individuals, groups and departments must be coordinated for
achieving the objectives of the business.
Directing means giving necessary information,
proper instructions and guidance to sub-
DIRECTING AND ordinates. This results in coordination.
COORDINATION. Therefore, Direction is affected by Coordination.
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14. Many types of communication methods are used in a business. These
COMMUNICATING methods include, Formal communication, Informal Communication,
AND Upward Communication, Downward Communication, Oral
COORDINATION. Communication, Written Communication, etc. It is important to note that,
all these types of communication must be properly coordinated.
There are many types of Motivation. These are,
MOTIVATING Positive Motivation, Negative Motivation,
AND Financial Motivation, and Non-Financial
COORDINATION Motivation. All these types of Motivation must be
. properly coordinated.
Every manager must be a good leader. He must
coordinate the efforts of his subordinates for achieving the
LEADING AND objectives. That is, he must coordinate the human
COORDINATION. resource. He must also coordinate the material and
financial resources of the organisation.
In Controlling the standards are first fixed. Then the performances are
measured. Performances are compared with the standards, and the
CONTROLLING deviations are found out. Then the deviations are corrected. So,
AND controlling involves many steps. All these steps must be properly
COORDINATION. coordinated. If coordination is not proper, Control will surely fail.

15. CONCLUSION
Hand & Eye
Coordination
Human Heart &
Organs Mind Never
Coordination Coordinates
Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games
are all about hand-eye coordination and how quickly can you get them before they get you.
George A. Romero

16. A person even an Organization can’t
survive without “COORDINATION”

17. THANK YOU!
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