HCM 433 MANGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR.pdf

the organization’s work _Koontz Odonnel et’al 1993 P. 356). Like organizing, this function is not
performed once and abandoned; it must be constantly worked at in order to have qualified people
available in the future to move into vacated positions or to allow the company to expand it
activities.
This function, therefore, includes such things as the development of manpower requirement for all
the various existing jobs, the appraisal and selection of candidates for dates and incumbents on
jobs in order to improve their used for the managerial function of staffing is human resources
management.
*iv=> The Directing function
To get things done through others, a manager is called upon to direct, supervise, motivate and lead
his subordinates to do the assigned jobs effectively and willingly and strive to achieve the set
objectives. His is the domain of directing as a managerial function. Directing assures the
performance of the assign work by individual employees. Specifically, it has been defined as the
managerial activity of providing all guidance and inspiration to people at work to carry our their
assigned duties of responsibility. It included explaining procedures, offering instructions on the
job, issuing order and directives and seeing to it hat occurring errors are rectified in time.
*v=> The Coordinating function
Coordination is not generally regarded as a separate function of the manager, but it is so essential
to the successful performance of nay manager. It is a managerial process whereby the effort of a
group is synchronized or unified, so that the desired objective is easily achieved. If there are
multiple goals in the people’s minds, coordination of effort may be impossible. To coordinate
therefore means to unite all activities.
Coordination is the central problem of an organization. Without coordination, people and
departments would lose sight of their roles within the organization and be tempted to pursue their
own special or personal interest often at the expense of the organizational goals. Thus,
coordinating provides the requisite unity and harmony needed to attain organizational goals.
Basically, coordination is interested in synchronization of all efforts to provide their (1) their
proper amount (2) proper timing, and (3) proper directing and/or motivating; so that all unified
and harmonized activities can be performed in proper sequence and at proper time to achieve
desired objective. Communications plays an important role in coordination; for many breakdowns
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