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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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gain–loss theory of interpersonal attraction
Business administration; Business management
An attempt in social psychology to formulate a theory that takes account of changes in people’s liking for each other. It suggests that increases or decreases in the rewarding behavior we receive ...
brainwashing
Business administration; Business management
An attempt to coerce someone into radically changing his or her beliefs or behavior by using psychological manipulation; for example, in advertising. Despite much hysterical pronouncement on the ...
group working
Business administration; Business management
An attempt to increase job satisfaction (as well as productivity), especially among assembly-line workers, by forming individuals into a coherent work group and allowing them more autonomy over, and ...
human asset accounting
Business administration; Business management
An attempt to measure the value to an organization of its human resources by treating them as assets as well as costs to the organization and assessing, for example, recruitment and training policies ...
prejudice
Business administration; Business management
An attitude, opinion or belief with a strong emotional underpinning that makes it largely impervious to reason or evidence to the contrary. The term is usually (though not always) used in a negative ...
stress audit
Business administration; Business management
An audit of a business organization which is designed to identify sources of stress perceived by staff.
organizational audit
Business administration; Business management
An audit of all aspects of an organization’s operations. In practice, this is usually the same as a management audit.
