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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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action research
Business administration; Business management
First proposed by Kurt Lewin in the 1930s in his work on group dynamics. The objective of this kind of research is to harness an understanding of the group behavior being studied ...
Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI)
Business administration; Business management
For many years this was widely considered to be the leading paper-and-pencil test of personality, though it is now somewhat out of fashion. It contains 550 statements which the ...
intellectual property right
Business administration; Business management
For many years, this referred to the ownership of a copyright, patent or trademark. More recently, the term has been extended to include the right to any kind of published or ...
mass media
Business administration; Business management
Forms of communication between producers and consumers that reach a large – usually nationwide – audience; that is radio, television and newsprint.
cybernetics
Business administration; Business management
From a Greek term meaning something like ‘steersman’, introduced in 1948 by Norbert Wiener, an American computer engineer. It is usually defined briefly as the study of regulatory ...
laissez-faire economy
Business administration; Business management
From the French for ‘let do’. This is the term used in economics for the traditional doctrine that a government should not intervene in the workings of its country’s economy. The ...
id
Business administration; Business management
From the Latin word for ‘it’. According to Freud the id houses the deepest unconscious drives, which are most in touch with the biological nature of the body, and is one of the ...
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