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.

Industry: Business administration

Add a new term

Contributors in Business management

Become a Contributors

Business management

house organ

Business administration; Business management

An American house journal.

Alfred P. Sloan

Business administration; Business management

An American industrialist (1875–1966) who took over a small and ailing motor manufacturer, General Motors, in the early 1920s and turned it into one of the biggest corporations in the world – and at ...

Ralph Nader

Business administration; Business management

(1934–) An American lawyer and campaigner whose exposure of shoddy practices in the Detroit car industry of the early 1960s heralded the broad movement of concern for the quality of consumer goods ...

Frank Gilbreth

Business administration; Business management

(1868–1924) An American management scientist who pioneered time-and-motion study and contributed generally to the scientific management movement. Gilbreth was an engineer and worked with his wife ...

Abraham Maslow

Business administration; Business management

(1908–70) An American personality theorist and leading exponent of humanistic psychology. He is closely associated with the terms hierarchy of needs, peak experience and self-actualization.

Douglas McGregor

Business administration; Business management

(1906–64) An American psychologist and leading contributor to organizational theory from the human relations perspective. He classified the assumptions about human nature made by supporters of the ...

David McClelland

Business administration; Business management

(1917–98) An American psychologist and leading contributor to the study of motivation, and particularly the part played by unconscious needs. He has suggested that one very important human need is ...