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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clique

Business administration; Business management

An informal group whose members associate with each other at work (as in society generally) on the basis of mutual interests, or even just physical proximity. In sociology, where it was first used, ...

slush fund

Business administration; Business management

An informal, unofficial and sometimes dubious source of funds from which an organization can finance a great variety of informal, unofficial and sometimes dubious activities, ranging from staff ...

work measurement

Business administration; Business management

An integral part of the work study process in which a variety of (subjective) methods, like work sampling, are used to fix a standard time for the acceptable performance of a given task by a trained ...

performance appraisal interview (PAI)

Business administration; Business management

An interview between an employee and his or her line manager, usually conducted once a year, at which an assessment is made of the individual’s job performance and how it relates to training needs, ...

depth interview

Business administration; Business management

An interview in which an interviewer tries to get beyond the conscious responses of the interviewee to probe his or her unconscious feelings.

structured interview

Business administration; Business management

An interview in which the interviewee is led through a fixed series of topics based on a set of prepared questions, often raised in a particular order. This method emphasizes comparability of ...

stress interview

Business administration; Business management

An interview that is deliberately conducted by the interviewer in a harsh and hostile manner, with the supposed intention of testing the interviewee’s ability to cope with stress. It is more likely ...