Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Coordination provides the requisite amount, quality, timing and sequence of efforts, which ensures that planned objectives are achieved with a minimum of cost.
Statement II: The primary reason for coordination is that departments and individuals in the organisation are interdependent.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.
Statement I: Coordination provides the requisite amount, quality, timing and sequence of efforts, which ensures that planned objectives are achieved with a minimum of cost. — Incorrect. Coordination synchronises efforts so that planned objectives are achieved with a minimum of conflict. Its purpose here is harmony, not saving cost.
Statement II: The primary reason for coordination is that departments and individuals in the organisation are interdependent. — Correct. Departments and people depend on each other for information and resources. So their efforts must be linked.
NCERT (2026-27 Edition): “Coordination — The Essence of Management … It is through the process of coordination that a manager ensures the orderly arrangement of individual and group efforts to ensure unity of action in the realisation of common objectives. Coordination therefore involves synchronisation of the different actions or efforts of the various units of an organisation. This provides the requisite amount, quality, timing and sequence of efforts which ensures that planned objectives are achieved with a minimum of conflict.”
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