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Business management

General business management terms encompassing inventory management, security management, financial administration, business planning, and management services for all enterprise-wide information systems.

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sweatshop

Business administration; Business management

A small factory where workers are employed, who are not members of a trade union, for long hours at low pay in harsh conditions of employment. See also supply-side economics.

primary group

Business administration; Business management

A small group (such as the family) characterized by direct, intimate, personal relationships between people who depend on each other for support and for satisfaction of emotional needs.

enterprise culture

Business administration; Business management

A social or company climate that celebrates enterprise and the entrepreneur.

economics

Business administration; Business management

A social science that concentrates on the production, distribution and consumption of wealth, and of goods and services, as well as the individual and social behavior involved in these processes. It ...

pluralistic ignorance

Business administration; Business management

A social situation in which each individual believes himself or herself to be the only exception to the accepted beliefs or behavior of his or her group.

meritocracy

Business administration; Business management

A social system in which advancement is based on ability rather than birth or background.

total hours society

Business administration; Business management

A society in which all major activities, but especially work and shopping, occur at all hours of the day or night.

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