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D073 Best Practices in Management: Projects, Staffing,
Scheduling, and Budgeting
1."Great Man": A nineteenth-century theory proposed by Thomas
Carlyle that states that history is largely explained by the impact of great men or heroes and their superior intellect and other attributes.You are either born to be a leader or not.
2.360 Evaluation: A process through which feedback from an
employee's subor- dinates, colleagues and supervisors as well as a self-evaluation by the employee themselves is gathered
3.Accounts Receivable: Money owed to a company by its debtors
4.Acquisitiveness: Excessive interest in acquiring money or material
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6.Allocation: To distribute or to give each person a portion of
something.
7.Assets: Property owned by an organization or individual; used to pay
off liabili- ties
8.Assumptions: Anything that is accepted as true or certain to
happen, without proof
9.Attributes: A quality or feature of something.
10.Attrition: It is not to replace employees when they leave
11.Authoritarian: To act in a dictatorial manner. Enforcing strict
obedience.
12.Balance sheet: A statement of assets, liabilities, and capital for an
organiza- tion at a particular point in time
13.Behavioral theory: Behavioral theory is based on the premise that
behaviors are conditioned as a result of experiences with the environment; anyone can be trained to behave in a preferred way.
14.Bias: A prejudice in favor or against one thing, person or group
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unjust
15.Bottom-Up Approach: Starts with the employees. They are surveyed
as the main users of a system to gather information on how to implement a change
16.Business Indicators: Numbers that may indicate a positive or
negative trend. Examples include demand for product, profit margin, revenue, professional devel- opment levels of workforce, market share, amount of debt, and deals finalized by the sales team.
17.Business Units: A logical segment of a business representing a
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18.Capital Assets: Capital assets are significant pieces of property
such as buildings, cars, investment properties, stocks and bonds
19.Cash Disbursements: The money paid out by an organization to
settle an obligation
20.Cash Receipts: The money received by an organization as payment
for a good or service
21.Central-Tendency: The tendency for data to move toward the mean
value over time. Central tendency is also a measure of a single value that describes how data cluster around a central value. This value can be used to represent a sample.
22.Change Management Process: Includes all of the processes involved
to pre- pare, support, and lead individuals, groups, or organizations in making a change
23.Channel richness: The ability of the channel to handle multiple cues
at the same time, to provide rapid feedback, and to facilitate a more personal conversa- tion
24.Cloud Technologies: Any hosted services delivered over the
internet. There are three broad groups of services: Infrastructure as a
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