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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ego

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Latin for the ‘I’, the conscious awareness of oneself (of one’s self). According to Freud the ego is that part of the personality closest to external reality, which holds the ring between the ...

rote learning

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Learning attempted solely through repetition, without any attempt to find order or meaning in the material. Compare with insight learning and trial and error learning.

overlearning

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learning in which practice or repetition continues beyond the point required for adequate mastery of the task. Overlearning is not usually considered harmful; that is, it is not thought possible to ...

one-trial learning

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Learning that occurs after a single trial or practice.

incremental learning

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learning that takes place in a series of regular and orderly steps rather than following flashes of insight learning.

incidental learning

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learning that takes place without one making a conscious effort to do so; for example, learning the names of shops on the way to the bus stop.

neologism

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Literally, ‘a new word’. It is found in scientific and scholarly writing where common words are used in a new way, like bug or mouse, or where new words are concocted, like brainstorming or ...