Business administration

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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Etzioni model

Business administration; Business management

A contribution to organizational theory by the American sociologist Arnitai Etzioni, who classified organizations in terms of the kind of power or authority they used. The ...

180° evaluation

Business administration; Business management

A technique used in personnel management where opinions about someone’s work are obtained from all of his or her equal status colleagues.

360° evaluation

Business administration; Business management

A technique used in personnel management, where opinions about someone’s work are obtained from his or her superiors as well as equal-status colleagues.

me-too product

Business administration; Business management

A new product whose promotion deliberately attempts to model it on, or even mimic, the market leader in the hope that potential consumers will conflate the two in their minds and ...

profession

Business administration; Business management

(1) ‘An occupation possessing high social status and characterized by considerable skill and knowledge, much of which is theoretical and intellectual in nature’ (The Penguin ...

theory Z

Business administration; Business management

The term suggested by the American writer on organization theory, William Ouchi, for Western adaptations of Japanese management practices. The Theory Z organization is ...