Business management

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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Sour grapes reaction

Business administration; Business management

The process of convincing yourself that something you can't have is not worth having anyway. In clinical psychology, this is called rationalization; in social psychology, it is regarded as an attempt ...

Selection

Business administration; Business management

The process of choosing someone for a particular job, which follows the recruitment of suitable candidates. The selection process will probably include an interview and may also include tests of ...

Retirement

Business administration; Business management

The process of finishing one's full-time work life, traditionally at a designated or generally accepted age. early retirement has increased greatly in recent years, though later retirement has also ...

Perceptual defence

Business administration; Business management

The process of defending oneself (one's self), or one's ego, from the awareness of unpleasant perceptions, either by misperceiving them as being pleasant or inoffensive or by not perceiving anything ...

Decentring

Business administration; Business management

The process of continuing to perceive a situation in a way that changing circumstances have rendered ineffective. A psychological version of culture lag.

Information theory

Business administration; Business management

The study of information and the way it is communicated. It originated with mathematicians and engineers and draws heavily on concepts from these fields, but with advances in brain research it has ...

Occupational health

Business administration; Business management

The study of people's health in their work environment, including the factors that contribute to ill-health such as stress. This field draws mainly on psychology and other branches of social science, ...