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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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total quality management

Business administration; Business management

An approach to, and concern for, quality which pervades a business organization from top to bottom. It was originally introduced to Japan in the aftermath of the Second World War ...

North American Free Trade Agreement

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 ...

outplacement

Business administration; Business management

The process of helping people to find new jobs after giving them notice of redundancy but while they are still employed.

constructive dismissal

Business administration; Business management

The legal term for a situation in which an employee leaves an organization, apparently (or technically) of her or his own free will, but where in reality she or he has been forced ...

equity

Business administration; Business management

(1) Receiving the same pay as other people doing the same job (a crucial aspect of motivation). (2) The ordinary shares in a company.

employee share ownership plan

Business administration; Business management

A loan scheme to help employees buy some or all of the shares in their company.

behaviourism

Business administration; Business management

A school of psychology founded by an American psychologist, J.B. Watson, in 1913. Watson believed that the work of pavlov on conditioning represented the future of psychology, ...