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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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Marketing
Business administration; Business management
The complex series of processes by which demand for goods and services is identified, supplied, anticipated or manipulated by a producer. While now often regarded as part of the responsibility of ...
Job longevity
Business administration; Business management
The concept that length of time spent in a job is an important factor in determining what contributes most to an individual's job satisfaction. For example, there is evidence that, after five years ...
Culture lag
Business administration; Business management
The continued use of outmoded ways of doing things even after the introduction of more effective means of attaining the particular goals of a society, or of an organization. A social version of ...
Individual differences
Business administration; Business management
The comparison of people's characteristics and performance on certain dimensions which are considered socially important, and especially of their intelligence and intelligence test scores.
Economic determinism
Business administration; Business management
The concept that one's place in the economy, or even what one does for a living, determines one's views of society and politics. This concept is usually traced back to Karl Marx.
Conflict resolution
Business administration; Business management
The conscious attempt to identify conflict within an organisation and to deal with it in such a way that it disappears. Much more ambitious, and much rarer, than conflict management.
Conflict management
Business administration; Business management
The conscious attempt to identify conflict within an organisation and deal with it in such a way that its potential for disruption is minimized.
