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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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linking-pin management structure
Business administration; Business management
A way of conceptualizing organizational structure, developed by the American psychologist Rensis Likert, where an organization consists of a series of interlocking groups ...
expectancy theory of motivation
Business administration; Business management
A way of looking at the relationship between motivation and the performance of a job. It suggests that people behave in accordance with the expected outcome of their performance ...
banding
Business administration; Business management
A way of organizing a salary structure where a series of different levels is first established into which jobs are then classified by level, or band, rather than fixing a ...
compressed hours
Business administration; Business management
A way of organizing the working week into fewer working days, for example, a 40-hour week consisting of four 10-hour days rather than five 8-hour days. See also annualized hours ...
attribution theory
Business administration; Business management
A way of trying to interpret and understand our own behavior and that of other people. We seem to attribute certain intentions or motivations to the behavior we observe. This can ...
position analysis questionnaire (PAQ)
Business administration; Business management
A written technique which asks people to keep a diary, along certain detailed and standardized lines, about what they actually do in their job as opposed to what they think they ...
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