This document discusses coordination as a management function presented by Mr. Manjunath Beth. It defines coordination as the orderly synchronization of efforts to achieve common objectives. Coordination is important as it creates synergy, provides unity of direction, improves employee morale, and helps diverse activities work together. It avoids issues like personal conflicts and overlapping work. Techniques of coordination include communication, planning, supervision, leadership, departmentalization, and direct contact. Coordination can be internal within an organization or external with outside partners. Hindrances to effective coordination are uncertainties, lack of skills and knowledge, size and complexity issues. Coordination is especially important for nursing management to integrate different health personnel and ensure quality patient care.

2. ‘
TOPIC
ON
COORDINATIONAS AMANAGEMENT FUNCTION
Presented by:
Mr. Manjunath. Beth
Associate professor
&
HOD OF MSN DEPARTMENT

3. COORDINATION AS A MANAGEMENT
FUNCTION
Presented By: Mr. Manjunath. M. Beth (Lecturer) Dept: Med-Sur-Nsg

4. INTRODUCTION
Presented By: Mr. Manjunath. M. Beth (Lecturer) Dept: Med-Sur-Nsg

5. Introduction
• Coordination is considered as an essential element
of administration.
• Coordination is the integration, synchronisation or
orderly pattern of group efforts in the institution
towards the accomplishment of common
objectives.
• The concept of co-ordination is much broader than
that of co-operation.
Presented By: Mr. Manjunath. M. Beth (Lecturer) Dept: Med-Sur-Nsg

6. DEFINITION
• "Co-ordination is the orderly synchronization of
efforts to provide the proper amount, timing, and
directing execution resulting in harmonious and and
unified actions to a stated objective"
• "Co-ordination is the integration of several parts into
an orderly whole to achieve the purpose of
undertaking"
• "Co-ordination is the integrating process in an orderly
pattern of group efforts in an organization toward the
accomplishment of a common objective"
Presented By: Mr. Manjunath. M. Beth (Lecturer) Dept: Med-Sur-Nsg

7. Presented By: Mr. Manjunath. M. Beth (Lecturer) Dept: Med-Sur-Nsg
Importance
of
co-ordination
Creative
force
Unity of
direction
High
employee
morale
Diverse and
specialized
activities
To avoid
personal
rivalries and
prejudice
To
avoid conflict
of interests

8. Importance of co-ordination
1. Creative force
• Group efforts when coordinated create a result greater than
the sum total of the individual and isolated.
2. Unity of direction
• co-ordination ensures unity if direction by way of securing
spontaneous collaboration on the part of different
departments.
3. High employee morale
• co-ordination enhances the general level of employee
morale and provides satisfaction
Presented By: Mr. Manjunath. M. Beth (Lecturer) Dept: Med-Sur-Nsg

9. 4. Diverse and specialized activities
• Total activities of an organisation are divided into several
units and subunits on the basis of either product
specialisation.
5. To avoid personal rivalries and prejudice
• human organisation give rise in course of time to the
development of personality politics among members.
6. To avoid conflict of interests
• Subordination of individual interest to general interest
often happen in organizations. There is need for
coordination to avoid conflicts or overlapping in the work
of employees or units or as organisation.
Presented By: Mr. Manjunath. M. Beth (Lecturer) Dept: Med-Sur-Nsg

10. Techniques of co-ordination
1. Communication
2. Orderly plans
3. Supervision
4. Leadership
5. Departmentation
6. Direct contact
Presented By: Mr. Manjunath. M. Beth (Lecturer) Dept: Med-Sur-Nsg

11. Types of co-ordination
1. Internal co-ordination
2. External co-ordination
Presented By: Mr. Manjunath. M. Beth (Lecturer) Dept: Med-Sur-Nsg

12. Hindrances to co-ordination
1. Uncertainty of the future, as to the behaviour of
the individual and the people.
2. Lack of knowledge, experience, wisdom and
character among leaders and their confused and
conflicting ideas and objectives.
3. Lack of administration skill and technique.
4. Vast number of variables involved and the
incompleteness of human knowledge, particularly
with regard to men and life.
Presented By: Mr. Manjunath. M. Beth (Lecturer) Dept: Med-Sur-Nsg

13. 5. Lack of orderly methods coordination..
6. Size and complexity, personality and political
factors.
7. Lack of leaders with wisdom and knowledge
pertaining to public administration
8. Accelerated expansion of public
administration of international dimension.

14. Coordination Applied to Nursing Management
1. Health care system consists of different categories
of health personnel which requires intense
coordination to function it effectively.
2. Nursing service is often the largest group of health
personnel with wide range of functions and skills.
3. Effective coordination of nursing services and
patient care will lead to patient satisfaction, better
quality of service and patient outcomes.
Presented By: Mr. Manjunath. M. Beth (Lecturer) Dept: Med-Sur-Nsg