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buzzword
Business administration; Business management
A term that describes a current management fad or fashion, for example, TQM, rightsizing or the learning organization.
work psychology
Business administration; Business management
A term that includes all the material covered by the older industrial psychology as well as broader issues like underemployment or the glass ceiling.
satisficing
Business administration; Business management
A term that originated in economics to describe the situation in which an organization was sufficiently satisfied with what it had achieved to stop striving for more, even though ...
logistics
Business administration; Business management
A term that was originally used in the military sphere to describe the organizing and moving of troops and equipment. It is now often applied to any detailed planning process in ...
semi-autonomous work groups
Business administration; Business management
A term used by senior management for autonomous work groups which they wish to control. Anything less than autonomy for shop floor workers means that they have no real autonomy ...
anomie
Business administration; Business management
A term used by the French sociologist Emile Durkheim to describe a condition of society where social norms are breaking down and people become confused both about their place in ...
steady state
Business administration; Business management
A term used by the Irish writer on organizational theory, Charles Handy, to characterize the routine day-to-day activities of an organization that keep it going and which account ...
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