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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marginality

Business administration; Business management

A term used in social science to denote the effects on an individual or a group of being excluded from the mainstream life of a society. It is now applied to life within an organization as well. See ...

opinion leader

Business administration; Business management

A term used in sociology to denote a person of status within a given group, whose opinions are highly thought of and who can therefore influence the opinions of other members of the group. See also ...

customer–contractor principle

Business administration; Business management

A term used in the public sector to describe research commissioned or sponsored by a government department from a publicly funded research council. The research council is the contractor, or ...

goal setting

Business administration; Business management

A term used in the theory of motivation. It has been found that the performance of a task is aided if people agree to accept specific goals for themselves which are stretching but attainable.

therblig

Business administration; Business management

A term used in the work study area of ergonomics. It is simply its inventor’s name spelled backwards (more or less) – gilbreth. A therblig is one of eighteen fundamental operations in a worker’s ...

stroking

Business administration; Business management

A term used in transactional analysis to describe actions that demonstrate caring recognition of, and attention paid to, another person. The term originates from the analogy of physically stroking an ...