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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helicopter factor

Business administration; Business management

A term sometimes used in the study of leadership to describe the ability to rise above the immediate situation one is in, get a broader perspective on it, and see how it relates ...

hidden agenda

Business administration; Business management

Things which are not listed on the formal agenda of a meeting but which influence the meeting none the less. These may be unspoken (or even unconscious) attitudes that individuals ...

convergent thinking

Business administration; Business management

Thinking along conventional lines in an attempt to find the best single answer to a problem, unlike divergent thinking. See also lateral thinking.

organizational culture

Business administration; Business management

This denotes ‘culture’ as the term is used in both anthropology and psychology; that is, not only the shared beliefs, values, attitudes and expectations of its members that make ...

bell-shaped curve

Business administration; Business management

This describes the shape of the curve obtained by plotting the kind of frequency distribution known as a normal distribution on a graph.

delayering

Business administration; Business management

This euphemism for firing people is used specifically for removing entire levels or layers of management (usually middle, sometimes junior, never senior) from an organizational ...