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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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audioconferencing

Business administration; Business management

A teleconference using only audio means of communication.

videoconferencing

Business administration; Business management

A teleconference using video, as well as audio, means of communication.

sociometry

Business administration; Business management

A term and a technique invented by the American psychiatrist J.L. Moreno. It is an attempt to measure what people in a group think and feel about each other by setting out the ...

presentation of self

Business administration; Business management

A term associated with the Canadian sociologist Erving Goffman, who was interested in the way people want others to perceive them. See impression management.

subculture

Business administration; Business management

A term borrowed from anthropology by sociology to denote a culture within a culture; that is, one which shares most of the main features and values of the parent culture while ...

feedback

Business administration; Business management

A term borrowed from cybernetics, where it refers to the direct relationship of the input of a system to its output. The concept of a return flow of output information which can ...

automation

Business administration; Business management

A term first used in the late 1940s by the Ford Motor Company. It is used to describe the employment of machines that reduce or dispense entirely with human communication, ...