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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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sick building syndrome

Business administration; Business management

This term was introduced in the late 1980s to describe relatively minor but frequent ailments (like sore throats, headaches or eyestrain) that are attributed to factors in the ...

management charter initiative (MCI)

Business administration; Business management

This was established in Britain in 1988 by a group of large companies to promote national standards of competencies in management development.

Dilbert principle

Business administration; Business management

This was suggested by the American cartoonist Scott Adams and states that the most ineffective workers in a business organization are systematically moved to the place where they ...

psychometrics

Business administration; Business management

Those areas of psychology that deal specifically with the measurement of psychological factors. In a management environment, the term tends to be used as a synonym for ...

comptroller

Business administration; Business management

Traditional form of the term controller, from the French verb comptroller, meaning ‘to check off’.

operations management (OM)

Business administration; Business management

Traditionally, operations management has been concerned with all the processes that go into the physical production of the goods that an organization is set up to provide. With ...

hacking

Business administration; Business management

Unauthorized breaking into the database of a computer.