Business management

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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career

Business administration; Business management

A line of work that a person expects to pursue for his or her foreseeable working life, though it might include changes in job or employer. In fact, it is now generally accepted that both job and ...

Fifth Discipline

Business administration; Business management

An idea introduced by the American management specialist Peter Senge in 1990. In Senge’s words ‘it is the cornerstone of the LEARNING ORGANIZATION’ and it requires the use of five basic disciplines ...

institutional investor

Business administration; Business management

An organization that invests in shares and other securities with funds obtained from a large number of individual savers; for example, a bank, insurance company or trade union.

Mach-V Scale

Business administration; Business management

A psychological test that is intended to identify and measure machiavellianism.

desktop publishing

Business administration; Business management

A feature of the electronic office. A way of preparing documents that involves a microcomputer with word processing, computer graphics and software which allows a combination of text and pictures to ...

functional

Business administration; Business management

Referring to a specialized aspect or function of an organization, like personnel or marketing. Often used more broadly in the sense of something in the organization that is working efficiently.

profit centre

Business administration; Business management

A unit of organization which is treated as a separate entity for purposes of financial control, and which is allocated designated income targets that allow its profit to be calculated over a given ...