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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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Business management

scab

Business administration; Business management

An alternative term for blackleg, whose origin is likewise unknown.

charm price

Business administration; Business management

An alternative term for psychological price.

merger

Business administration; Business management

An amalgamation of two or more business organizations into a single new organization by mutual agreement – as opposed to a takeover by one company of another.

W. Edwards Deming

Business administration; Business management

An American engineer and statistician (1900–93) regarded as the founder of the ‘quality’ movement. He worked for a time at the Hawthorne works, where elton mayo conducted his famous studies. When he ...

F.W. Taylor

Business administration; Business management

An American engineer (1856–1915) who invented work study and founded the scientific management approach to the world of work (sometimes known as taylorism) at the beginning of the twentieth century. ...

Henry Gantt

Business administration; Business management

An American engineer (1861–1919), and colleague of F.W. Taylor, who was a pioneer of management consultancy and developed the gantt chart, emphasized the importance of employees as human resources in ...

Peter Drucker

Business administration; Business management

An American expert (1909–) on management who popularized the concept of management by objectives and introduced the techniques of activities analysis, decision analysis and relations analysis to the ...

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