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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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work-to-rule

Business administration; Business management

A form of industrial action, short of a strike, where workers do not withdraw their labor but do withhold any co-operation with their employers, beyond the explicit contractual ...

go-slow

Business administration; Business management

A form of industrial action, short of a strike, where workers do not withdraw their labor but instead slow down the rate at which the work is done, usually by meticulously ...

incremental innovation

Business administration; Business management

A form of innovation that is really part of the principle of kaizen, where the improvements made to a product are small and continuous in nature rather than spectacular ...

ringi system

Business administration; Business management

A form of Japanese decision-making where all the members of an organization who will be affected by it participate in reaching a collective decision.

laissez-faire leadership/management

Business administration; Business management

A form of leadership or management in which the input of the leader/manager is minimal and has little direct effect on an organization. This often leads to infighting by ...

democratic leadership

Business administration; Business management

A form of leadership which tries to replace the usual focus on the leader in favour of a focus on the contributions of followers. In an organization this takes the form of ...

insight learning

Business administration; Business management

A form of learning in which there appears understanding – usually sudden – in dealing with a problem. Insight learning involves both cognition, in finding a solution to a ...