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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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Henry Mintzberg

Business administration; Business management

A Canadian management theorist (1939–), best known for his empirical observations of managers at work, highlighting the differences between what they are supposed to do, or what ...

organization chart

Business administration; Business management

A chart outlining the relationships between the direct functions, responsibilities and titles in an organization and often the people who actually perform them. This is an ...

multiple-activity chart

Business administration; Business management

A chart which records the activities and interrelationships of workers or machines on the same time scale.

pictogram

Business administration; Business management

A chart which uses pictures or symbols to represent numerical data.

pie chart

Business administration; Business management

A circular chart with sections representing proportions of some total entity as slices of a pie.

organizational conflict

Business administration; Business management

A clash of interests, values or goals between individuals or groups within an organization.

System 4

Business administration; Business management

A classification of management style by the American psychologist rensis likert. There are four styles in all, ranging from the autocratic (System 1) to the democratic (System 4).