Class 21: Coordination

Modern enterprises use " division of labor", "specialization" and "departmentalization" as organizing principles. This leads to the scattering of activities needed to produce one product- say car into many departments. One department produces Chassis, the next paints it and the third fits wheels and tyres and so on. In other words, departments depend on each other to complete production.
Coordination is the process of managing the interdependence in work situations
Need for Coordination
  • Division of labour
  • Interdependence of units- pooled, sequential and reciprocal

Techniques of coordination

  • Rules, procedures and policies
  • Planning
  • Hierarchy
  • Direct contact
  • Task force
  • committe

Requisites for Cordination

  • Direct contact
  • Early start
  • continuity
  • Dynamism
  • Clear cut objectives
  • Simplified organiztion

Difficulties in Cordination

  • Differences in Goal orientation
  • Differences in Time orientation
  • Differences in Interpersonal orientation
  • Differences in Formality of structure

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