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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coercive power

Business administration; Business management

A form of power which denotes the ability of someone in an organization to punish others, for example, by demotion or the withholding of a salary increase. It is a kind of negative reward power and ...

reward power

Business administration; Business management

A form of power which denotes the ability of someone in an organization to reward others, for example, with promotion or better pay or conditions. Usually contrasted with coercive power.

non-directive therapy

Business administration; Business management

A form of psychotherapy which accepts an individual’s expression of his or her needs and conflicts on his or her own terms, without any preconceived system of interpretation for steering the person ...

group therapy

Business administration; Business management

A form of psychotherapy which involves several people at the same time. The assumption here is that people can benefit from the experiences and companionship of other people, as well as experiencing ...

encounter group

Business administration; Business management

A form of psychotherapy which is conducted in a group rather than with an individual. It has been adapted for use in management training generally, where people are encouraged to express their ...

psychoanalysis

Business administration; Business management

A form of psychotherapy, invented and developed by sigmund freud. It places great emphasis on the uncovering and understanding of unconscious motivation. Any form of psychoanalysis, no matter how far ...

snowball sample

Business administration; Business management

A form of sampling used in market research, where each respondent interviewed is asked to provide the names of additional respondents. The bias in this form of sampling is, of course, that the ...