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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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Business administration; Business management
A questionnaire about a person’s interests, which is matched with the reported interests of people in different vocations to assess her or his suitability for a particular kind of ...
Likert scale
Business administration; Business management
A questionnaire scale developed by the American psychologist Rensis Likert, which allows respondents to indicate how much they agree or disagree with a series of statements on a ...
social class
Business administration; Business management
A rather old-fashioned term for socio-economic status. It is considered crude and gauche in some quarters, if not downright subversive.
glass ceiling
Business administration; Business management
A real though invisible barrier that may be present in an organization preventing women from rising above a certain level in the organizational hierarchy. Its origin lies in the ...
emergent change
Business administration; Business management
A recent approach to organizational change which is sceptical about the effectiveness of planned change. In particular, evaluations of the ‘one-size-fits-all’ or ‘recipe’ approach ...
work–life balance
Business administration; Business management
A recent attempt by employees and employers to tackle stress in the workplace by consciously looking for a healthy balance between the demands of work life and home life. In ...
mass customization
Business administration; Business management
A recent development in marketing which takes advantage of the increased sophistication of computers to combine mass production techniques with individual customization of a ...
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