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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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non-governmental organization (NGO)

Business administration; Business management

This term is usually applied to an organization that operates internationally but is not supported, in the main, by direct governmental funding; for example, Amnesty International ...

salaried staff

Business administration; Business management

This term is usually applied to staff who are white-collar workers and whose pay is calculated on an annual basis and paid in equal monthly instalments. This is in contrast to the ...

income

Business administration; Business management

This term is usually reserved for money received by an individual, whether earned through work or unearned through dividends, interest and so on.

seniority

Business administration; Business management

This term refers to either a higher rank or a greater length of service within a given organization.

restrictive practice

Business administration; Business management

This term usually refers to a work practice supported by a trade union, in the interest of job security for its members, which limits the scope of management, especially in the ...

leadership style

Business administration; Business management

This term usually refers to the adoption of an authoritarian management or a democratic management style by an individual in an organization, depending on which style is more ...

survivor guilt

Business administration; Business management

This term was first used by psychologists who noticed that when people escape from some disaster which claimed the lives of friends or family they often exhibited symptoms of ...