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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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aptitude test
Business administration; Business management
A technique that tries to predict a person’s capacity for acquiring a certain skill or ability. See also psychometrics.
Blau typology
Business administration; Business management
A technique used by the American sociologist Peter Blau which classified formal organizations according to the criterion ‘who benefits?’ Four classes of organization are thereby ...
Johari Window
Business administration; Business management
A technique used in counselling to help people give and receive feedback about the effects of their behavior. The ‘window’ is actually a 2 × 2 table. The whole window is meant to ...
scenario writing
Business administration; Business management
A technique used in forecasting, where expert predictions about the environment in which an organization operates are used as the basis for exploring several alternative scenarios ...
managerial grid
Business administration; Business management
A technique used in management development that was devised by two American specialists in organizational psychology, Robert Blake and Jane Mouton, building on previous ...
blind test
Business administration; Business management
A technique used in market research for obtaining the opinions of consumers on a product where all of the product’s identifying marks are removed. Several products are sometimes ...
executive washroom
Business administration; Business management
An American term for the lavatory used exclusively by senior management. The term is used metaphorically to distinguish the people with high status in an organization from the ...
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