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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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Business administration; Business management

An American term for a one-off advertising circular sent to prospective customers.

engineering psychology

Business administration; Business management

An alternative term for ergonomics, the art of applying the principles of psychology, engineering, anatomy, physiology and other sciences to aid interactions between people and ...

human engineering

Business administration; Business management

An alternative term for ergonomics, the art of applying the principles of psychology, engineering, anatomy, physiology and other sciences to aid interactions between people and ...

Kelly repertory grid

Business administration; Business management

A technique used in market research to obtain opinions from respondents about products and their brand image. The materials are presented in threes and the respondents are asked ...

factor analysis

Business administration; Business management

A technique used in statistics for analysing complex correlations of scores and tracing the factors underlying these correlations.

work sampling

Business administration; Business management

A technique used in work measurement and work study for obtaining information about a particular job or task by the process of sampling (usually random sampling) from the work ...

critical incident technique (CIT)

Business administration; Business management

A technique which analyses the impact of key incidents in past performance in order to improve future performance. It is used, for example, to study the safety of equipment in the ...