Business administration

Business administration

Business management best practices including corporate strategy development, financial management, human resource management, information management, resource planning, marketing and sales.

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Hawthorne studies

Business administration; Business management

A series of investigations carried out at the Hawthorne plant of the Western Electric Company in Illinois between 1927 and 1932, under the direction of Elton Mayo, which marked a ...

family life cycle

Business administration; Business management

A series of stages used in marketing to categorize the different situations an individual consumer may go through in the course of a lifetime. The most commonly used such series ...

demographics

Business administration; Business management

A set of figures describing a population, both in general terms (like births, deaths and marriages) and in specific terms like the consumption of particular goods and services. ...

code of practice

Business administration; Business management

A set of guidelines outlining expected standards of behavior by people working in an industry or a profession. Such a code is not legally binding and may, indeed, be adopted to ...

type B personality

Business administration; Business management

A set of personality characteristics that are the opposite of type A personality and therefore considered to be much less susceptible to heart disease. These characteristics ...

type A personality

Business administration; Business management

A set of personality characteristics that have been linked with a particular susceptibility to heart disease. These characteristics include being impatient, always rushing, trying ...