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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mere exposure

Business administration; Business management

In social psychology, this is a term introduced in the 1960s by the American psychologist Robert Zajonc to explain the phenomenon that, other things being equal, the more familiar people become with ...

internal justification

Business administration; Business management

In social psychology, this is a way of resolving cognitive dissonance and underlies the most powerful kind of attitude change. For example, if you feel, on reflection, that you have an awful job, you ...

diffusion of responsibility

Business administration; Business management

In social psychology, this is the idea that taking responsibility for initiating action or offering help in an emergency is spread among the people present in the situation. Sometimes the ...

personal space

Business administration; Business management

In social psychology, this is the idea that the area immediately surrounding an individual is felt to be his or her own. The amount of space claimed in this way varies from culture to culture, but ...

horn effect

Business administration; Business management

In social psychology, this is the tendency to make a generalization in judging a person from one negative characteristic to a total impression. (The ‘horn’ is associated with the Devil.) This is a ...

impression formation

Business administration; Business management

In social psychology, this refers to the process of putting together the various bits of information about someone which we gather in the course of interpersonal contact, making sense of her or him ...

halo effect

Business administration; Business management

In social psychology, this refers to the tendency to generalize in judging a person from just one characteristic (usually positive) to a total impression. Compare with horn effect.