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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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Fritz Schumacher
Business administration; Business management
(1911–77) Generally considered to be the father of the ‘Small Is Beautiful’ movement both in organizational theory and in thinking about the global environment. His work also ...
deviation
Business administration; Business management
Generally speaking, a departure from the norm, whether social, psychological or statistical. In statistics, it refers to the difference of a given score from the mean.
consumer goods
Business administration; Business management
Goods for direct consumption, like food, clothing and cars, as opposed to things like machinery and tools which are used to make other goods. Traditionally, a distinction has been ...
occupational choice
Business administration; Business management
Having a choice of occupation is largely confined to middleclass people with education and/or connections. Within this constraint, choice is determined partly by interests and ...
generic
Business administration; Business management
Having a general application to a group or class of things rather than to a specific individual. (1) It is widely used in marketing and examples can include the advertising of ...
self-knowledge
Business administration; Business management
Having an accurate awareness of what our self is really like. Where such knowledge is painful we will invest an enormous amount of energy in not knowing about it. See also ego ...
identity
Business administration; Business management
Having essentially unchanging characteristics. When applied to an individual it is usually considered to be the basic content of someone’s personality, especially his or her ...
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