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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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curvilinear relationship
Business administration; Business management
A relationship between two variables depicted graphically by a curve rather than a straight line.
captive product
Business administration; Business management
A relatively insignificant product that must be purchased regularly to service a more important product. For example, ink cartridges for a printer or top-up cards for a mobile ...
golden hello
Business administration; Business management
A relatively large payment made to an individual as an inducement to leave one organization and come to another.
golden handshake
Business administration; Business management
A relatively large sum of money given in the form of severance pay for a departure that is usually ahead of normal retirement or comes at the end of a contract.
worker-director
Business administration; Business management
A representative of the workforce on the board of directors of an organization. This is sometimes considered the ultimate in industrial democracy. It is extremely rare.
followership
Business administration; Business management
A research focus that began in the 1980s on why people follow leaders as an attempt to overcome dissatisfaction with existing theories of leadership that concentrated largely on ...
participant observation
Business administration; Business management
A research technique in social science where an observer becomes an accepted member of the group he or she wishes to study.
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