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.

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industrial training

Business administration; Business management

In personnel management, this term usually refers to the training of new workers in a particular industry or sector of the economy, at all levels of ability and skill.

ego defence

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In psychoanalysis, this is a term for the ways in which the ego protects itself from the threatening unconscious ideas of the ID or the superego, or from external dangers in the environment. See also ...

sublimation

Business administration; Business management

In psychoanalysis, this is an ego defence in which unacceptable unconscious impulses are channelled into consciously acceptable forms. For Freud this was society’s main way of handling repression. It ...

displacement

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In psychoanalysis, this is an ego defence which involves the unconscious shifting of feeling from its real object to another where it is less threatening to the ego; for example, shouting at the ...

projection

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In psychoanalysis, this refers to an ego defence where an individual (at the unconscious level) attributes to other people feelings she or he has, but which are too threatening to the ego to admit ...

repression

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In psychoanalysis, this term is used to describe a particular kind of ego defence, as well as being a crucial concept in Freudian theory. The essence of repression is the holding back from conscious ...

inhibition

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In psychology generally, this term refers to the blocking of one physiological or psychological process by another; for example, the response to one sense receptor (the eyes) inhibiting response to ...