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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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shortlist
Business administration; Business management
A list of the leading candidates for a particular job as the result of a recruitment process. People on the shortlist will be asked to attend an interview, and will perhaps be ...
rightsizing
Business administration; Business management
A little more than just another euphemism for firing people – like downsizing was in the 1980s – ever since senior management discovered, in the 1990s, that sometimes you need to ...
employee share ownership plan (ESOP)
Business administration; Business management
A loan scheme to help employees buy some or all of the shares in their company. See also employee ownership.
wildcat strike
Business administration; Business management
A local strike that does not have official trade union backing. It is usually called without warning, or at short notice.
greenfield site
Business administration; Business management
A location for a new commercial or industrial development on which there is no existing or previous development. Originally, these locations were, and sometimes still are, green ...
brownfield site
Business administration; Business management
A location for a new industrial or commercial development on the cleared site of a former development. Compare with greenfield site.
call center
Business administration; Business management
A location where telephone calls to and from customers are handled. The location is often remote from – indeed sometimes on a different continent from – both the caller and the ...
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