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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
Chris Argyris
Business administration; Business management
(1923–) An American psychologist and specialist in organizational development whose work focuses on the relationship between the individual and the organization, and in particular the search for ...
B.F. Skinner
Business administration; Business management
(1904–90) An American psychologist and the most celebrated exponent of behaviorism, not just in the study of psychology but as a means of running a society. His own technique of conditioning was ...
Solomon Asch
Business administration; Business management
(1907–96) An American psychologist influenced by the gestalt viewpoint and who has specialized in the study of conformity behavior in small groups, generally considered to be one of the most ...
Stanley Milgram
Business administration; Business management
(1933–84) An American psychologist who made several notable contributions to social psychology, particularly in the study of conformity to authority. His best-known finding was that most people could ...
Likert Rensis
Business administration; Business management
(1903–81) An American psychologist whose contributions to the study of management and organizational theory include the concepts of human asset accounting, the Likert scale, the linking-pin ...
J.B. Watson
Business administration; Business management
(1878–1958) An American psychologist, and later advertising executive, who is generally regarded as the father of behaviorism.
industrial engineering
Business administration; Business management
An American term for a kind of applied ergonomics which concentrates on the system of production and draws on various fields, including industrial psychology, operational research and time-and-motion ...
