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Business management
General business management terms encompassing inventory management, security management, financial administration, business planning, and management services for all enterprise-wide information systems.
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Internal justification
Business administration; Business management
In social psychology, this is a way of resolving cognitive dissonance and underlies the most powerful kind of attitude change. For example, if you feel, on reflection, that you have an awful job, you ...
Mere exposure
Business administration; Business management
In social psychology, this is a term introduced in the 1960s by the American psychologist Robert Zajonc to explain the phenomenon that, other things being equal, the more familiar people become with ...
Diffusion of responsibility
Business administration; Business management
In social psychology, this is the idea that taking responsibility for initiating action or offering help in an emergency is spread among the people present in the situation. Sometimes the ...
Personal space
Business administration; Business management
In social psychology, this is the idea that the area immediately surrounding an individual is felt to be his or her own. The amount of space claimed in this way varies from culture to culture, but ...
Modelling
Business administration; Business management
In social psychology, this is a form of learning from observing a model which goes much further than copying or imitating. Children, especially, may generalise from the model's behaviour to a wide ...
Horn effect
Business administration; Business management
In social psychology, this is the tendency to make a generalisation in judging a person from one negative characteristic to a total impression. (The 'horn' is associated with the Devil.) This is a ...
Brainstorming
Business administration; Business management
In social psychology this term refers to the free generation of ideas by the members of a group for the purpose of solving a specific problem. See also delphi method and scenario writing.
