Business administration

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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old school tie

Business administration; Business management

A long-established form of networking. In this case, chaps who went to the same English public school (and are therefore entitled to wear the same tie) practise various forms of ...

house journal

Business administration; Business management

A magazine or newsletter, produced for members of an organization and other interested parties, containing news of the organization and its staff.

measured daywork (MDW)

Business administration; Business management

A management procedure where a daily production target is defined for all the workers on the shop floor, whose pay is then made up of a fixed, regular amount for each day that the ...

management by crisis

Business administration; Business management

A management style that tends to favour crash programs to deal with problems as they arise in an organization rather than focussing on long-term planning or on the overall ...

balanced scorecard

Business administration; Business management

A management tool aimed at increasing organizational effectiveness. It employs a range of both quantitative measures (like profit and productivity) and qualitative measures (like ...

continuous process production

Business administration; Business management

A manufacturing technique in which raw materials are fed in at one end of a process and finished products emerge at the other in one continuous uninterrupted flow – hence the ...