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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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learning organization
Business administration; Business management
An organization whose organizational culture encourages individual learning as well as collective learning about the organization itself. This would encompass such human relations approaches as ...
tall organization
Business administration; Business management
An organization with a relatively large number of levels in its hierarchy. The classic examples are the army and the British Civil Service, with a dozen levels or more. This is usually compared with ...
flat organization
Business administration; Business management
An organization with relatively few levels in its hierarchy. An oft-quoted example is the Catholic church, a global organization with only five levels from parish priest to pope. Compare with tall ...
achievement culture
Business administration; Business management
An organizational culture that fosters achievement and, under certain conditions, perhaps also the need for achievement in its members.
task-oriented culture
Business administration; Business management
An organizational culture which emphasizes most the importance of solving problems and completing tasks and is usually associated with working in a large traditional organization. Often compared with ...
people-oriented culture
Business administration; Business management
An organizational culture which emphasizes most the meeting of the professional and psychological needs of an organization’s members. Usually found in small, non-traditional organizations. Often ...
spontaneous recovery
Business administration; Business management
In conditioning, this terms refers to the reappearance of a conditioned response which has been extinguished, after a short rest period.
