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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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Etzioni model
Business administration; Business management
A contribution to organizational theory by the American sociologist Arnitai Etzioni, who classified organizations in terms of the kind of power or authority they used. The typology includes coercive ...
180° evaluation
Business administration; Business management
A technique used in personnel management where opinions about someone’s work are obtained from all of his or her equal status colleagues.
360° evaluation
Business administration; Business management
A technique used in personnel management, where opinions about someone’s work are obtained from his or her superiors as well as equal-status colleagues.
me-too product
Business administration; Business management
A new product whose promotion deliberately attempts to model it on, or even mimic, the market leader in the hope that potential consumers will conflate the two in their minds and choose the former by ...
profession
Business administration; Business management
(1) ‘An occupation possessing high social status and characterized by considerable skill and knowledge, much of which is theoretical and intellectual in nature’ (The Penguin Management Handbook). (2) ...
theory Z
Business administration; Business management
The term suggested by the American writer on organization theory, William Ouchi, for Western adaptations of Japanese management practices. The Theory Z organization is distinguished by several ...
computer-assisted instruction
Business administration; Business management
A method of programmed learning in which a computer is used as a teaching machine.
