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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hierarchical task analysis (HTA)

Business administration; Business management

A form of task analysis used in assessing training needs, which describes a task in terms of a hierarchy of the operations necessary for its performance, ranging from the broadest down to the most ...

scattergram

Business administration; Business management

A graph or diagram in which the individual points are left unconnected in order to show what patterns the data fall into.

demand curve

Business administration; Business management

A graphic measure which is used in economics to show how much of a certain product is likely to be bought at certain prices. A fall in price, for example, usually leads to a rise in demand.

curve of forgetting

Business administration; Business management

A graphic representation of the rate at which the forgetting of learned material occurs.

bar chart

Business administration; Business management

A graphical method of illustrating statistical information (as in Figure 5). It takes the form of a diagram in which quantities or frequencies are expressed as columns of different height. See also ...

syndicate

Business administration; Business management

A group of individuals or organizations who combine for some common goal which is to their mutual benefit. See also superordinate goal.

organization

Business administration; Business management

A group of people brought together for the purpose of achieving certain objectives. As the basic unit of an organization is the role rather than the person in it, the organization is maintained in ...