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Business management best practices including corporate strategy development, financial management, human resource management, information management, resource planning, marketing and sales.

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brand awareness

Business administration; Business management

The extent to which potential customers are aware of a given brand and its attributes.

model

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(1) Any representation of an object, situation or organization. It may be physical, verbal, mathematical or produced by computer simulation. (2) In social psychology, it is used ...

hierarchy

Business administration; Business management

(1) Any organizational structure containing different levels of authority, and often responsibility. (2) Any arrangement of things in succeeding levels, each one subsuming all ...

bureaucracy

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(1) A term coined by the German sociologist Max Weber in the early twentieth century to describe an organization that has (a) a clearly defined hierarchy with top-down ...

Behaviourally Anchored Rating Scale

Business administration; Business management

An assessment instrument that often uses the critical incident technique, thereby ‘anchoring’ it in employees’ actual behaviour. It may then be used to assess a given person in a ...

technocentric

Business administration; Business management

Looking at business and management issues primarily from a technological point of view.

scheduling

Business administration; Business management

(1) A term used to describe the process of organizing tasks to be done by a series of machines in order to streamline production. (2) Any way of dividing up time in the course of ...