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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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performing

Business administration; Business management

A term sometimes used for the fourth stage of group formation within an organization. This is ideally the group in its mature form (although not all groups achieve this stage) ...

storming

Business administration; Business management

A term sometimes used for the second stage of group formation within an organization where members negotiate and often conflict with each other while they work out what they want ...

norming

Business administration; Business management

A term sometimes used for the third stage of group formation within an organization where the group norms of expected behavior and appropriate roles for all the members are being ...

pilot study

Business administration; Business management

A term sometimes used in market research or survey research; for example, when a proposed questionnaire may be tested on a few respondents before being used on a large-scale ...

socially acquired needs

Business administration; Business management

A term sometimes used in motivation to describe needs that people might say they have which are not biological (like food or security) but represent aspects of their relationship ...

efficacy

Business administration; Business management

A term sometimes used in psychology to describe how effective a person feels in influencing matters of importance to him or her.

somatizing

Business administration; Business management

A term sometimes used in psychotherapy to describe the appearance of physical symptoms as a result of psychological stress, as in psychosomatic disorders.