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alienation
Business administration; Business management
A term with various shades of meaning in psychology and sociology, all of which refer to feelings of being estranged, separated and powerless, whether in relation to oneself, to ...
organizational man
Business administration; Business management
A term, used both approvingly and pejoratively, applied to someone who has the kind of personality which allows him or her to fit relatively comfortably into an organization, ...
intelligence test
Business administration; Business management
A test that is supposed to measure intelligence, whatever that may be. Its purpose is to discriminate between people who score high and people who score low (i.e. high and low ...
chaos theory
Business administration; Business management
A theory developed by natural scientists and mathematicians beginning in the early 1970s. It is the opposite of the scientific model of direct links between cause and effect, ...
cognitive dissonance
Business administration; Business management
A theory developed in social psychology by the American psychologist Leon Festinger. The theory states that because we have a powerful drive towards consistency (or consonance), ...
hierarchy of needs
Business administration; Business management
A theory of motivation proposed by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow in the 1940s. He suggested there were five distinct levels of human need arranged in a hierarchy (see ...
equity theory
Business administration; Business management
A theory of motivation that is concerned with our sense of fairness and justice about the way we and others are treated at work in terms of the ratio of inputs (like experience, ...
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