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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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uncertainty avoidance
Business administration; Business management
Uncertainty in any form is a prime stressor in the workplace which everyone would rather avoid. However, different societies can have different reactions to uncertainty and these ...
flexible time
Business administration; Business management
Under a system of flexible working hours, flexible time refers to those periods during which an employee may choose whether to be at work or not, in contrast to core time, when ...
core time
Business administration; Business management
Under flexible working hours core time refers to those periods during which all employees must be present at the workplace. The rest of the working day is made up of flexible ...
structural unemployment
Business administration; Business management
unemployment that arises from the changing structure of an industry or society (e.g. in the pattern of demand) that is long-term or even permanent, as opposed to seasonal ...
technological unemployment
Business administration; Business management
unemployment that can be attributed directly to the introduction of a particular technology to the workplace.
informal group
Business administration; Business management
Unlike a formal group, an informal group is not set up by the management of an organization but arises spontaneously in the workplace – where it may not be wholly, or even partly, ...
informal organization
Business administration; Business management
Unlike the outward face of the formal organization this reflects the inner life of the organization, where communication proceeds via the grapevine, where life is lived in ...
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