Coordination is the process of harmonizing all activities and tasks within an organization to facilitate its working and success. It involves balancing team tasks, ensuring proper allocation of work, and maintaining harmony among members. Coordination is achieved through direct personal contact and communication, and is a central management function. Some principles of effective coordination include starting early in the planning stage, maintaining continuity, direct contact to avoid issues, reciprocal relations between departments, and clear objectives. Coordination encourages teamwork, provides direction, facilitates motivation, optimizes resource use, helps achieve goals quickly, and improves organizational relations and efficiency. Planning, communication, delegation, and supervision are keys to successful coordination. Potential barriers include lack of shared objectives, administrative skills, and orderly coordination

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By: Ms Shanta Peter

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3. 1. The act or state of coordinating or of being
coordinated.
2. Proper order or relationship.
3. Harmonious combination or interaction,
as of functions or parts
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4. “ Coordination is balancing and
keeping together the team by
ensuring suitable allocation of tasks
to the various members and seeing
that the tasks are performed with
the harmony among the members
themselves. “
( Brech)
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5. “ To co-ordinate is to harmonize all
the activities of a concern so as to
facilitate its working and its success”
Fayol
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6. Coordination is much achieved
through …
Direct personal contact –
with people
Direct face to face contact
communication is most effective
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7. Coordination is the
Central function of management .
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8. Coordination is … management
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9. Internal
External
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10. 1.Principle of Early Stage.
It must start during the planning stage.
2. Principle of Continuity.
Coordination must be a continuous process
3. Principle of Direct Contact
Helps to avoid misunderstandings,
misinterpretations and disputes between
managers and subordinates.
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11. 4. Principle of Reciprocal Relations
The decisions and actions of one person or
department will affect all other persons and
departments in the organization.
5. Principle of Effective Communication.
Good communication must be present between
all departments, within employees themselves
and even between managers and their
subordinates.
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12. 6. Principle of Mutual Respect .
All managers working at different levels (top,
middle or lower) must respect each other.
7. Principle of Clarity of Objectives
Clear objectives can be achieved easily and
quickly. If everyone in the organization know the
objectives very clearly
8. Principle of Scalar Chain
Line of authority.
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13.  It encourages team spirit –no conflicts ,
rivalries between depts. or staff
 Coordination gives proper direction and integrates the
activities of different departments
 Coordination facilitate motivation – it show
concern and freedom for employee – so they
show initiative , give incentives – financial,
non financial, job satisfaction, and motivated
to work better
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14.  It make optimum utilization of resources
It bring together the human and material
resources and use optimum. It helps to
minimize the wastage of resources
 It helps to achieve objective quickly ..
Minimize rivalries, conflicts , wastage , delays
and other organizational problems. Ensures
smooth working achieve objectives easily
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15.  Improves relation in the organization –
top to bottom line
 Leads to higher efficiency – as it utilizes
optimum use of resources – results in more
return and low cost
 Improves good will of the organization ..
improve image
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16.  Plan with clearly stated objective
 Organize the work according to priorities
 Ensure effective communication
 Define specific self responsibility
 Delegate subordinates with clear
responsibilities
 Provide the standard --policies- procedures
 Supervise & guide subordinates as needed
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17.  Disagreement on objectives
 Lack of knowledge – experience of leaders
 Lack of administrative skills and techniques
 Lack of orderly method of coordination
 Rapid staff turnover
 Nursing Dept has wide range of activities
 Lac of trust
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