We explain what coordination is depending on the area in which it is used. Also, what is physical, grammatical and administration coordination.
What is coordination?
Coordination, in the multiple areas in which the word can be used, is generally understood as the action of “Uniting two things so that they form a unit or a harmonious whole”, as well as “directing and coordinating various elements”, according to the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy.
In other words, coordinate is to arrange a set of elements according to a specific meaning. The term coordination comes from Latin coordinationmade up of the prefix co-and the Latin voice I will ordinatewhich translates “order” or “adjust.” That is to say, from its origins it had to do with the idea of ensuring that something fits into its context or follows a certain order.
Initially, this word was used by the Roman philosopher Boethiusin the exact same sense of the Greek word syntax (“syntax”), but later acquired its current meaning.
This term can be applied to various areas, the main ones being corporal, grammatical and administrative, which we will see separately below.
Physical coordination
Physical coordination or muscular coordination It is the ability of the skeletal muscles of our body to synchronize with respect to a movement or a trajectory, anticipating an action to carry it out gracefully and correctly.
In simpler terms, it is the ability to synchronize the muscles of the body with what you see and what you want to do, in order to perform the action without stumbling blocks.
This coordination can be of various types, depending on which parts of the body are involved, such as:
- Eye-hand coordination. Also called hand-eye coordination, it involves synchronizing your hands and what you see, for example to catch a ball without problems.
- Oculo-pedic coordination. It is similar to the previous one, but involves the feet instead of the hands, as is evident when we see an expert soccer player play.
- Visual-motor coordination. It involves the entire body in space, that is, it involves movements of the entire body in accordance with the visual perception of space, as in the case of ballet dancers.
- Motor coordination. It refers to coordination in general, that is, the ability to move, use objects, throw, receive, assemble something, disassemble something, in short, all those activities that involve our muscles and our senses, in general.
Grammatical coordination
In the case of grammar, the term coordination applies to way in which language allows us to unite two different termsbe they sentences, phrases or propositions.
Similar to juxtaposition and subordination, coordination operates without pauses that are marked orthographically (using commas or periods), but instead uses links to unify two fragments of language without one taking precedence over the other hierarchically, as occurs in subordination.
The terms thus coordinated, then, work together, but they could also do so autonomously. Their syntactic or appearance order can vary indifferently. Let's see some examples of this:
- Are you coming to the movies or staying home?
Sentence 1: You come to the cinema
Nexus: or
Phrase 2: you stay at home
In this case it is a disjunctive coordination.
- I'm hungry but I don't have money.
Phrase 1: I'm hungry
Nexus: but
Sentence 2: I don't have money
In this case it is a adversarial coordination.
- At the party there were candy and peanuts.
Sentence 1: There were candy at the party
Nexus: and
Sentence 2: There were peanuts at the party
In this case it is a copular coordination.
- It was gloomy, that is, sad.
Sentence 1: It was gloomy
Nexus: I mean
Sentence 2: I was sad
In this case it is a explanatory coordination.
Administrative coordination
Finally, in the administration sciences, it is common to speak of coordination to refer to the ability to organize and synchronize a company's efforts or organization, when not simply some department thereof, to achieve its objectives through joint effort.
Coordination, in this sense, is in charge of a leader (coordinator) and a work team that he manages, according to the principle that, adapting to a specific order, there will be better performance, better use of resources and The initiatives will advance towards the same general goal.
For this reason, it is common to name the departments of a company “coordinations”, as in “Strategic coordination”, “Operational coordination”, etc.
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References
- “Coordination” in Wikipedia.
- “Coordination (grammar)” on Wikipedia.
- “Muscle coordination” on Wikipedia.
- “Coordination” in the Language Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy.
- “Coordination” in Business Dictionary.
