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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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work-to-rule
Business administration; Business management
A form of industrial action, short of a strike, where workers do not withdraw their labor but do withhold any co-operation with their employers, beyond the explicit contractual agreement made for ...
go-slow
Business administration; Business management
A form of industrial action, short of a strike, where workers do not withdraw their labor but instead slow down the rate at which the work is done, usually by meticulously following the rule book. ...
incremental innovation
Business administration; Business management
A form of innovation that is really part of the principle of kaizen, where the improvements made to a product are small and continuous in nature rather than spectacular stepchanges.
ringi system
Business administration; Business management
A form of Japanese decision-making where all the members of an organization who will be affected by it participate in reaching a collective decision.
laissez-faire leadership/management
Business administration; Business management
A form of leadership or management in which the input of the leader/manager is minimal and has little direct effect on an organization. This often leads to infighting by subordinates who attempt to ...
democratic leadership
Business administration; Business management
A form of leadership which tries to replace the usual focus on the leader in favour of a focus on the contributions of followers. In an organization this takes the form of democratic management.
insight learning
Business administration; Business management
A form of learning in which there appears understanding – usually sudden – in dealing with a problem. Insight learning involves both cognition, in finding a solution to a practical problem, and the ...
