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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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Fixed pie myth
Business administration; Business management
An American version of a zero-sum game that does not in fact exist in a given situation.
Learning organisation
Business administration; Business management
An organisation whose organisational culture encourages individual learning as well as collective learning about the organisation itself. This would encompass such human relations approaches as ...
People-oriented culture
Business administration; Business management
An organisational culture which emphasises most the meeting of the professional and psychological needs of an organization's members. Usually found in small, non-traditional organizations. Often ...
Tall organisation
Business administration; Business management
An organisation with a relatively large number of levels in its hierarchy. The classic examples are the army and the British Civil Service, with a dozen levels or more. This is usually compared with ...
Task-oriented culture
Business administration; Business management
An organisational culture which emphasises most the importance of solving problems and completing tasks and is usually associated with working in a large traditional organization. Often compared with ...
Pyramid hierarchy
Business administration; Business management
An organisational structure having different levels of authority with fewer people at each succeeding level, so that a chart of the hierarchy would look like a pyramid in shape. See also tall ...
Flat organisation
Business administration; Business management
An organisation with relatively few levels in its hierarchy. An oft-quoted example is the Catholic church, a global organisation with only five levels from parish priest to pope. Compare with tall ...
