Business administration

Business administration

Business management best practices including corporate strategy development, financial management, human resource management, information management, resource planning, marketing and sales.

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transactional leadership

Business administration; Business management

A term introduced into the study of leadership in the 1960s by the British political scientist J.M. Burns to describe a manager in an organization who is more concerned with the ...

transformational leadership

Business administration; Business management

A term introduced into the study of leadership in the 1960s by the British political scientist J.M. Burns, to describe a manager in an organization who is more concerned with the ...

unfreezing

Business administration; Business management

A term introduced to group dynamics by Kurt Lewin. He saw it as the first in a three-step process of change in the balance of psychological forces at work in an organization (the ...

reluctant manager

Business administration; Business management

A term introduced to management science in the 1980s by two British writers, Richard Scase and Robert Goffee. The term describes a manager suffering from a certain alienation from ...

significant other

Business administration; Business management

A term introduced to social science in the 1920s by the American sociologist G.H. Mead to denote a person who is particularly important to us, especially in the support of our ...

time-span of discretion

Business administration; Business management

A term introduced to the work study area of ergonomics in the 1960s by the British industrial psychologist Elliot Jaques. It is an attempt at equity in setting salary levels and ...