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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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microchip

Business administration; Business management

A tiny piece of silicon, containing a complete electrical circuit, used extensively in the manufacture of the microcomputer.

color blindness

Business administration; Business management

A total or partial inability to distinguish colors. Total color blindness is very rare but partial color blindness (particularly the inability to distinguish red and green from ...

company town

Business administration; Business management

A town dominated by a single employer. Such towns are usually small, but there are exceptions. Washington DC is sometimes described as a company town, the ‘company’ in this case ...

shop steward

Business administration; Business management

A trade union official elected by fellow workers on the shop floor to represent them in their day-today dealings with the employers or their management representatives.

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Business administration; Business management

A treaty, originally between Canada and the United States and extended to Mexico in 1994, which aims to set up a free trade area where tariffs and other barriers to trade between ...

alternative shift

Business administration; Business management

A two-shift system of working in which, for example, people may work days and then nights for the same period of time, often week and week about, or perhaps alternating early and ...

Gantt chart

Business administration; Business management

A type of bar chart developed by Henry Gantt which is widely used in the planning and control of production. The chart depicts the progress of a project over time in terms of ...