Coordination involves arranging and placing all managerial functions together to run the management smoothly and achieve the required goals and objectives of a business. Characteristics of Co-ordination are as follows:
(i) Integration of group efforts: Coordination enables interaction between individuals with different capabilities, experiences and skills. Such integrated group efforts further enable efficiency in operations as per organisational goals.
(ii) Unity of action: Coordination enables the manager to secure unity of action in direction of a common purpose
(iii) Continuous process: It is a continuous process that requires a manager to continuously coordinate with the activities of different departments for achieving organisational objectives by using the available resources efficiently.
(iv) Pervasive function: It is an all pervasive function that runs through all managerial functions from planning till controlling.
(v) Responsibility of all managers: Coordination is not the task of only top level managers but managers at different levels try to Coordinate the activities of organisation.