Coordination is required in all group efforts, in every organisation at all levels of management. It is not the responsibility of top management only. Managers at all levels are responsible for achieving coordinated efforts in their respective departments or units.
The need of coordination at various levels of management may be described as follows:
(i) At the top level management It has to take care that there is coordination between organisational goals and the goals of the units and sub-units formed for achieving these goals.
(ii) At the middle level management That is the departmental managers, who have to coordinate their departmental plans with the plans of other departments. This level links the top level management with the lower level management and coordinates between them by transmission of orders downward and problems and feedback reports upward.
(iii) At the lower level management Coordination is required between the actual operations with the plans made and reconcile the view of management and workers.
