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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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role overload

Business administration; Business management

An extreme form of role conflict, where the number of different roles expected of an individual are simply too great for her or him to contain. The opposite of role underload.

fifth discipline

Business administration; Business management

An idea introduced by the American management specialist Peter Senge in 1990. In Senge’s words ‘it is the cornerstone of the learning organization’ and it requires the use of five ...

extraversion

Business administration; Business management

According to the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung this is a basic personality dimension of openness and outward-looking sociability. It is usually contrasted with ...

inferiority complex

Business administration; Business management

According to the Viennese psychoanalyst Alfred Adler, this is an unconscious condition where an individual feels inadequate and resentful, often because of some physical feature ...

introversion

Business administration; Business management

According to the Viennese psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, this is a basic personality dimension of being withdrawn, inward-looking and passive that is usually contrasted with ...

wholesaling

Business administration; Business management

Acting as an intermediary or middleman between the production of goods and their retailing to the general public. It usually involves the stocking of relatively large quantities ...

lock-out

Business administration; Business management

Action taken by employers in the course of an industrial dispute, which involves denying the workers access to the workplace by locking them out; its consequences are the same as ...