Co-ordinating Function is the orderly arrangement of individual and group efforts to provide unity of action in the pursuit of a common goal . Co-ordination is balancing and keeping together the team by ensuring suitable allocations of tasks to the various members and seeing that the tasks are performed with the harmony among the members themselves .

 Importance of Co-ordination : 

(i) Growth in the Size 

• With the growth in the size of an organization , there is a proportionate increase in the number of its employees . 
•  As such there is a greater need to satisfy the efforts of diverse individuals towards the realization of organizational goals . 

(ii) Functional Differentiation 

• As a result of functional differentiation in an organization its people and activities get divided into Sections / Departments on the basis of functions like Marketing , Finance etc. 
• Therefore, there is need to reconcile the goals pursued by each of such department with the goals of the organization as a whole . 

(iii) Specialization 

• More number of specialists are deployed in the present day organizations , Keeping in mind the need for specialization , due to greater complexity and diversity in its way of functioning . 
• In order to integrate the different approaches , interests or opinion of the specialists and to resolve conflicts between them , Co-ordination is essential .