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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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linking-pin management structure
Business administration; Business management
A way of conceptualizing organizational structure, developed by the American psychologist Rensis Likert, where an organization consists of a series of interlocking groups connected up into a coherent ...
expectancy theory of motivation
Business administration; Business management
A way of looking at the relationship between motivation and the performance of a job. It suggests that people behave in accordance with the expected outcome of their performance and the value they ...
banding
Business administration; Business management
A way of organizing a salary structure where a series of different levels is first established into which jobs are then classified by level, or band, rather than fixing a different rate of pay for ...
compressed hours
Business administration; Business management
A way of organizing the working week into fewer working days, for example, a 40-hour week consisting of four 10-hour days rather than five 8-hour days. See also annualized hours and flexible working ...
attribution theory
Business administration; Business management
A way of trying to interpret and understand our own behavior and that of other people. We seem to attribute certain intentions or motivations to the behavior we observe. This can also be thought of ...
position analysis questionnaire (PAQ)
Business administration; Business management
A written technique which asks people to keep a diary, along certain detailed and standardized lines, about what they actually do in their job as opposed to what they think they do or what they’re ...
