Element of business co-ordination
It refers to the unification of all the unrelated interests or activities bringing together the efforts and directing them to a common direction. Integration result is better performance of the organization. In the organization employees some form different backgrounds, they have different interests, different aspirations. The coordination function is unified and brings together the interests of all the employees towards the interests of the organizations. It means integrating the activities and efforts of different departments, working independently. It brings harmony in the working of whole company. Although the departments of an organization work independently but their activities must relate to each other, else there can be chaos and confusion. The sales department has taken an order of 1000 units, it cannot execute the order unless and until production department produces 1000 units unless and until purchase department provides raw materials and so on. So we can see that although departments seem to work independently but they depend on each other so this is needed to balance and match the activities of different departments. It means scheduling the operations in a suitable order so that there is no interruption in the operating process due to delay in one activity. Integrating the timing of different activities leads t smooth flow and smooth working of an organization.