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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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game theory
Business administration; Business management
A mathematical approach to the study of conflict and decision-making which treats conflict situations as though they were games, with set tactics and strategies and totally ...
linear program
Business administration; Business management
A mathematical technique used in operational research to help the decision-maker where there is a direct, straight-line relationship between two variables; for example, where the ...
assembly line
Business administration; Business management
A means of mass production, based on the ideas of Gilbreth and Taylor, which was invented by Henry Ford in 1913 for his model-T car factory. It quickly became the leading method ...
status symbol
Business administration; Business management
A measure of someone’s status and importance (or sometimes self-importance) in an organization. Favourite status symbols are dress (e.g. ‘white’ collar as opposed to blue) and ...
cost effectiveness
Business administration; Business management
A measure of the extent to which money has been effectively spent on something. It is found by seeing whether the benefits that have resulted could have been obtained with a lower ...
index linking
Business administration; Business management
A mechanism for offsetting changes in the value of money by making systematic adjustments to payments, such as pensions, in line with changing prices, usually as reflected in the ...
confrontation meeting
Business administration; Business management
A meeting where employees are invited to be completely frank with the management about their concerns. Used in assessing job satisfaction, but not too often.
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