Cooperation and coordination in the staff of department of horticulture, Tumkur district, Karnataka

Human resource is one of the most important assets in the organizations. Human resource provides an organization a source of sustainable competitive advantage in a highly competitive environment. The study was done on the cooperation and coordination in the staff of department of horticulture of Tumkur distric of Karnataka. Maximum number of middle age employees were the group ‘A’ officers (70.00%) and the minimum strength of 10.00 per cent was that of young (group ‘D’ officials) and old (group ‘B’ and ‘C’ officials). Maximum group ‘D’ officials (70.00%) had good cooperation among themselves and poor cooperation within the category was noticed in 10.00 per cent group ‘D’ officials. Maximum group ‘C’ officials (70.00%) had good cooperation with their seniors as well as juniors. In this case poor inter-group cooperation was recorded in 10.00 per cent group ‘C’ officials. There was more coordination/cooperation among the employees themselves as 60.00 per cent employees had good level of it among themselves as compared to only 45.00 per cent employees having good coordination with their colleagues. There was more cooperation among low category of employees as compared to senior level officers. Moreover it was also found that employees had better cooperation/coordination among themselves in comparison to other people working in the department.