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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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gain–loss theory of interpersonal attraction

Business administration; Business management

An attempt in social psychology to formulate a theory that takes account of changes in people’s liking for each other. It suggests that increases or decreases in the rewarding ...

brainwashing

Business administration; Business management

An attempt to coerce someone into radically changing his or her beliefs or behavior by using psychological manipulation; for example, in advertising. Despite much hysterical ...

group working

Business administration; Business management

An attempt to increase job satisfaction (as well as productivity), especially among assembly-line workers, by forming individuals into a coherent work group and allowing them more ...

human asset accounting

Business administration; Business management

An attempt to measure the value to an organization of its human resources by treating them as assets as well as costs to the organization and assessing, for example, recruitment ...

prejudice

Business administration; Business management

An attitude, opinion or belief with a strong emotional underpinning that makes it largely impervious to reason or evidence to the contrary. The term is usually (though not always) ...

stress audit

Business administration; Business management

An audit of a business organization which is designed to identify sources of stress perceived by staff.

organizational audit

Business administration; Business management

An audit of all aspects of an organization’s operations. In practice, this is usually the same as a management audit.