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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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role overload
Business administration; Business management
An extreme form of role conflict, where the number of different roles expected of an individual are simply too great for her or him to contain. The opposite of role underload.
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 ...
extraversion
Business administration; Business management
According to the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung this is a basic personality dimension of openness and outward-looking sociability. It is usually contrasted with introversion.
inferiority complex
Business administration; Business management
According to the Viennese psychoanalyst Alfred Adler, this is an unconscious condition where an individual feels inadequate and resentful, often because of some physical feature regarded as a defect. ...
introversion
Business administration; Business management
According to the Viennese psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, this is a basic personality dimension of being withdrawn, inward-looking and passive that is usually contrasted with extraversion.
wholesaling
Business administration; Business management
Acting as an intermediary or middleman between the production of goods and their retailing to the general public. It usually involves the stocking of relatively large quantities of goods for onward ...
lock-out
Business administration; Business management
Action taken by employers in the course of an industrial dispute, which involves denying the workers access to the workplace by locking them out; its consequences are the same as a strike.
