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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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statistics
Business administration; Business management
A form of mathematics used on data gathered in studying behavior and by which investigators evaluate their findings and make inferences of wider implication than their study ...
critical path analysis
Business administration; Business management
A form of operational research in which a project is represented by a diagram containing a time schedule for each of the different parts of the project. The ‘critical path’ ...
functional organization
Business administration; Business management
A form of organizational structure in which specialists carry out their own particular function in an organization (like research and development or quality control) but without ...
time-and-a-half
Business administration; Business management
A form of overtime working in which time worked is paid at one-and-a-half times the normal rate. See also double time.
double time
Business administration; Business management
A form of overtime working in which time worked is paid at twice the normal rate. See also time-anda-half.
piecework
Business administration; Business management
A form of payment by results where workers are paid for each piece of work they do rather than the number of hours they put in. It was based originally on the scientific ...
gainsharing
Business administration; Business management
A form of payment by results, like the scanlon plan, where employees are paid extra for increasing productivity or decreasing costs. It can thus be used in either commercial or ...
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