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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implicit personality theory

Business administration; Business management

In psychology, this refers to the unquestioned assumptions an individual uses in thinking about the personality of another person. More specifically the term refers to the characteristics that tend ...

stereotype

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In psychology, this term denotes an oversimplified perception of some aspects of the social world. This often tends to be a basis for prejudice.

relative deprivation

Business administration; Business management

In psychology, this term is used to describe an individual’s feeling of being deprived when she or he compares herself or himself to someone else, regardless of the objective reality or what other ...

graveyard shift

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In shift work practice this is a colloquial term for the night shift.

split shift

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In shift work practice, this term refers to a shift which has been divided into two or more periods of time and/or groups of workers.

brainstorming

Business administration; Business management

In social psychology this term refers to the free generation of ideas by the members of a group for the purpose of solving a specific problem. See also delphi method and scenario writing.

modelling

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In social psychology, this is a form of learning from observing a model which goes much further than copying or imitating. Children, especially, may generalize from the model’s behavior to a wide ...