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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Coercion

Business administration; Business management

The use of power to get people to do something they would not otherwise do. Typical of authoritarian management.

Biotechnology

Business administration; Business management

The use of biologically based processes in existing manufacturing and service industries.

Sick building syndrome

Business administration; Business management

This term was introduced in the late 1980s to describe relatively minor but frequent ailments (like sore throats, headaches or eyestrain) that are attributed to factors in the workplace environment. ...

Restrictive practise

Business administration; Business management

This term usually refers to a work practise supported by a trade union, in the interest of job security for its members, which limits the scope of management, especially in the allocation of ...

Survivor guilt

Business administration; Business management

This term was first used by psychologists who noticed that when people escape from some disaster which claimed the lives of friends or family they often exhibited symptoms of guilt at their good ...

Dilbert principle

Business administration; Business management

This was suggested by the American cartoonist Scott Adams and states that the most ineffective workers in a business organisation are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least ...

Leadership style

Business administration; Business management

This term usually refers to the adoption of an authoritarian management or a democratic management style by an individual in an organization, depending on which style is more comfortable to his or ...