Coordination brings unity of action and integrates different activities of organisation. Coordination is considered as the essence of management because of following reasons
Coordination is needed to perform all the functions of management:
(i) In planning coordination is required between main plan and supportive plans of different departments.
(ii) In organising coordination is required between different resources of an organization and also between authority responsibility and accountability.
(iii) In staffing coordination is required between skill of a person and job assigned to him, between efficiency and compensation etc.
(iv) In directing function coordination is required between superior and subordinates, between orders, instructions, guidelines and suggestions etc.
(v) In controlling function coordination is required between standards and actual performance.
