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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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struc tur al change

Business administration; Business management

Deep-seated changes that affect the very structure of a society, like the industrial revolution.

country club management style

Business administration; Business management

Description of people on the managerial grid who score high for concern with people but low for production.

Boston Matrix

Business administration; Business management

Developed by the Boston Consulting Group and used in marketing as a way of classifying products by business growth and relative competitive position. (1) star – high growth, ...

non-verbal communication

Business administration; Business management

Direct, face-to-face communication between people by any means other than the spoken word. This would include facial expressions, body gestures, hand gestures, body posture and ...

ageism

Business administration; Business management

discrimination against older people; for example, by organizations reluctant to hire secretaries over forty, or models over twenty. Like racism and sexism this is based on an ...

job redesign

Business administration; Business management

Doing a new job design as part of a wider process, like job enlargement or job enrichment, and preparatory to job restructuring.

moonlighting

Business administration; Business management

Doing a second (or even third) job, usually in the black economy, in addition to one’s normal employment.