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Featured Business Resources:

Management and Leadership | Production Management

Douglas McGregor: Theory X and Theory Y	What is Lean Manufacturing?
Transformational vs. Transactional Leadership	What is 5S Production?
Max Weber’s three types of authority	What is Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)?
Kurt Lewin's Leadership Styles	Kanban Inventory System
What is Blake & Mouton's Managerial Grid?	JIDOKA
What is Paternalistic Leadership?	What is Concurrent Engineering?
What is the Situational Leadership Theory?	Mass Customization Production
What is William Ouchi’s Theory Z of Leadership?	What is the Learning Curve?
What are Henri Fayol's 5 functions of management?	What are the Seven Types of Waste? (MUDA)

Business Strategy | Accounting

What are Michael Porter's 5 forces?	Return on Investment (ROI)
Internationalization of Multinational Corporations	Return on Assets (ROA)
Global strategies for MNCs: Bartlett & Ghoshal	Return on Equity (ROE)
What is the Balanced Scorecard?	Return on Sales (ROS)
What is the PESTEL Framework?	Return on Capital Employed (ROCE)
What is the BCG Matrix?	Contribution Margin and Ratio
What is a SWOT analysis?	Asset Turnover
What is Michael Porter's Value Chain?	Inventory Turnover
What is Michael Porter's Diamond Model?	Accounts Receivable Turnover Ratio
What is Michael Porter's Generic Strategy Model?	Accounts Payable Turnover Ratio

Human Resource | Organizational Theory

Herzberg's Motivation and Hygiene Factors	What is Contingency Theory?
Maslow's hierarchy of needs	Galbraith: Information Processing View
Vroom's Expectancy Theory (VIE-model)	Max Weber’s theory of Bureaucracy
What is the Hawthorne Effect?	Mechanistic vs. Organic Organizational Structure
	What is Transaction Cost Theory?
	What is a Simple Organizational Structure?
	What is a Functional Organizational Structure?
	What is a Divisional Organizational Structure?
	What is a Matrix Structure?
	Scientific Management (Taylor)
	Henri Fayol’s 14 Principles of Management
	Bounded Rationality (Herbert Simon)

National and Organizational Culture | Marketing

Geert Hofstede's 5 Cultural Dimensions	Marketing Mix
Fons Trompenaar's Cultural Dimensions	The 4 P's of marketing
Edgar Schein's Model of Organizational Culture	Market Segmentation Analysis
National vs. Organizational Culture	Relationship Marketing
Organizational Culture: An Informal Control Mechanism

Important Business Terms | Green Business

Annual Report	Green Strategy
Arbitrage
Benchmarking
Commodity
Competitive Advantage
Core Competencies
Economies of Scale
Environmental Scanning
Inco Terms
Invisible Hand
Lead Time
Predatory Pricing
Statistical Process Control
Strategic Alliances
Strategic Group Mapping
Time to Market (TTM)
Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)