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scab
Business administration; Business management
An alternative term for blackleg, whose origin is likewise unknown.
charm price
Business administration; Business management
An alternative term for psychological price.
merger
Business administration; Business management
An amalgamation of two or more business organizations into a single new organization by mutual agreement – as opposed to a takeover by one company of another.
W. Edwards Deming
Business administration; Business management
An American engineer and statistician (1900–93) regarded as the founder of the ‘quality’ movement. He worked for a time at the Hawthorne works, where elton mayo conducted his ...
F.W. Taylor
Business administration; Business management
An American engineer (1856–1915) who invented work study and founded the scientific management approach to the world of work (sometimes known as taylorism) at the beginning of the ...
Henry Gantt
Business administration; Business management
An American engineer (1861–1919), and colleague of F.W. Taylor, who was a pioneer of management consultancy and developed the gantt chart, emphasized the importance of employees ...
Peter Drucker
Business administration; Business management
An American expert (1909–) on management who popularized the concept of management by objectives and introduced the techniques of activities analysis, decision analysis and ...
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