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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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presenteeism
Business administration; Business management
A form of absenteeism while remaining in the job. It is found among employees who are seriously disaffected from their organization.
integrative bargaining
Business administration; Business management
A form of bargaining whose objective is to achieve an outcome in which both parties gain. That is, the attempt to organize a win–win situation.
conspicuous consumption
Business administration; Business management
A form of buying behavior in which a consumer lays claim to membership of the highest socio-economic status group by displaying products commonly associated with that group, like driving a RollsRoyce ...
compensatory consumption
Business administration; Business management
A form of buying behavior in which people of low socio-economic status (SES), and having relatively little disposable income, may spend a much greater proportion of that income than people of high ...
post-decision dissonance
Business administration; Business management
A form of cognitive dissonance that is experienced after making a difficult decision. The closer the alternatives one has to choose from in their desirability the greater will be the dissonance ...
distributive bargaining
Business administration; Business management
A form of collective bargaining in which the resources to be distributed are regarded as fixed and one side’s gain is therefore the other side’s loss, as in a zero-sum game.
buffering
Business administration; Business management
A form of conflict management that attempts to use the outputs of one work group as the inputs of another to reduce potential conflict between them. Most often used in arranging stock inventories ...
