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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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Eustress
Business administration; Business management
A term sometimes given to the only positive aspect of stress, a feeling of stimulation and excitement that can sometimes result in enhanced performance, at least in the short term. The prefix 'eu' is ...
Pilot study
Business administration; Business management
A term sometimes used in market research or survey research; for example, when a proposed questionnaire may be tested on a few respondents before being used on a large-scale study, to see whether the ...
Superwoman
Business administration; Business management
A term popularly used of a woman who combines a successful work career with a family life and the rearing of children.
Vertical communication
Business administration; Business management
A term sometimes applied to downward communication, though more usually to upward communication in an organization.
Sigmund Freud
Business administration; Business management
A Viennese neurologist and psychologist (1856–1939). Freud's work may be divided into three areas: his invention of psychoanalysis as a therapeutic technique, his theory of personality (ego, ID and ...
Rational-economic
Business administration; Business management
A view of human nature which argues that people act only to maximise their self-interest. It is based on the philosophy of hedonism and often claims the thought of Adam Smith in its support. Any ...
Production orientation
Business administration; Business management
A view of the marketplace often held by producers when the demand for their product exceeds the supply and consumers are forced to buy what there is rather than what they may really want. Under these ...
