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Leadership approach in which the leader creates strong relationships with an inside the team; team members are motivated by loyalty 

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Affiliative leadership approach

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Motivation theory that states that the way a person interprets the causes for past successor, failure is related to the present level of motivation; includes theories of Heider and Weiner.

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Attribution Theory

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Leadership approach in which the leader proposes a bold vision or solution, and invites the team to join this challenge

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Authoritative leadership approach

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Category of leadership theories that states that leaders influence group members through certain behaviors; includes Blake-Mouton theory

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Behavioral theories

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Leadership approach in which the leader focuses on developing team member skills, believing that success comes from aligning the organizations goals with the employees, personal and professional goals

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Coaching leadership approach

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Leadership approach in which the leader imposes a vision or solution on the team and demands at the team follow this directive

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Coercive leadership approach

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Power that is created, when the leader can punish those who do not follow

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Coercive power

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Leadership approach in which the leader invites followers, to collaborate and commits to acting by consensus

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Democratic leadership approach

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Leadership theory that states that leaders are not appointed, but emerge from the group, which chooses the leader, based on interactions

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Emergent theory

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Theory that states that motivation is based on an employee sense of fairness; the individual compares their perceived value with that of others, and similar rules, and makes a calculation based on their inputs and outputs

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Equity Theory

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Motivation theory that states that effort increases in relation to one’s confidence that the behavior will result in a positive outcome and reward; includes Vroom’s theory

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Expectancy theory

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Power that is created, when a leader is recognized as possessing, great intelligence, insight, or experience

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Expert Power

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Theory that states that motivation can be increased by providing employees with goals against which they can assess their achievement

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Goal-setting theory

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Leadership theory that focuses on a two-way relationship between leaders and chosen employees; the leader, mentor selected team members, and give them access to more information and resources, in order to strengthen levels of trust and support

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Leader-member exchange theory

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Power that is created formally, through a title or position in the hierarchy that is associated with the rights of leadership

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Legitimate power

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Factors that initiate direct and sustain human behavior overtime

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Motivation

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Motivation theory that states that individuals are motivated by a desire to satisfy certain needs and that understanding these needs allows leaders to offer the right incentives, and create the most motivational external environments include self-determination and theories of Maslow, Herzberg, and McClelland.

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Needs theory

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Leadership approach in which the leader sets a model for high-performance standards and challenges followers to meet these expectations

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Pacesetting leadership approach

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Power that is created by the force of the leaders personality

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Referent power

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Power that is created when the leader can offer followers some thing they value an exchange for their commitment

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Reward power

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Leadership theory in which the leaders’ goal is to serve the needs of their employees; emphasizes the sharing of power

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Servant leadership

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Category of leadership theories that states that leaders can flex their behaviors to meet the needs of unique situations, employing both task or directive behaviors and relationship or supportive behaviors; includes Hersey-Blanchard situational leadership, Fiedler’s contingency theory, and path-goal theory.

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Situational theories

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Motivation theory, dealing with the amount of control in the workplace; motivation is seen as either absolutely irrelevant or absolutely critical

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Theory X/Theory Y

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Leadership theory that states that leaders possess certain innate characteristics that followers do not possess (and probably cannot acquire), such as physical characteristics and personality traits

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Trait theory

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Leadership theory that emphasizes a leaders preference for order and structure; focuses on control and short-term planning

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Transactional leadership

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Leadership theory that emphasizes the leaders ability to inspire employees to embrace change; leaders encourage and motivate employees to innovate and seek out changes that can add value and growth to the organization

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Transformational leadership

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Ability to stay true to values and maintain integrity in both personal and professional lives, and from an organizational perspective, approach to forming and maintaining relationships with colleagues and others in the organization

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Authenticity

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Exchange of anything value to gain greater influencer preference

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Bribery

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Principles that guide decision-making and behavior in an organization

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Code of conduct

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Treatment of personal information that has been disclosed to another person or organization

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Confidentiality

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Situation in which a person or organization may benefit from undue influence due to involvement in outside activities, relationships or investments that conflict with or have an impact on the employment relationship or it’s outcomes

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Conflict of interest

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Maintaining consistency between one’s values and one’s actions

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Integrity

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An individuals right to freedom from intrusion (by viewing monitoring, reading, etc.) into matters, actions, or information that is personal

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Privacy

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Extent to which an organizations agreements, dealings information, practices and transactions are open to disclose and review by relevant persons

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Transparency

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Defensive behavior that occurs when an organization recruits a diverse workforce, but consciously or otherwise, promotes the simulation rather than inclusion

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Covering

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Additional workload that is generated for members of an underrepresented group due to their requested participation in DE&I efforts

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Cultural taxation

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The similarities and differences between individuals accounting for all aspects of one’s personality and individual identity

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Diversity

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Voluntary group for employees who share a particular diversity dimension (race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.) also known as affinity group or network group

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Employee resource group (ERG)

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A feeling that one success is due to luck, not hard work or skill; can lead individuals to feeling unfit for their current role

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Impostor syndrome

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Extent to which each person in an organization feels welcome, respected, supported, and value as a team member

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Inclusion

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Refers to a workforce that approaches problems, using different conceptual thought approaches that may stem from an atypical brain structure for example, attention deficit disorder(ADD), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder(ADHD), and anything categorized as existing on the autism spectrum (autism, spectrum disorder, or ASD)

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Neurodiversity

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Ability to be sensitive to an understand one’s own and others emotions and impulses

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Emotional intelligence (EI)

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Process by which two or more parties work together to reach agreement on a matter

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Negotiation

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Process of developing mutually beneficial contacts through the exchange of information

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Networking

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Process in which negotiators aim for mutual gain, emphasizing the need to focus on the problem instead of personal differences, and on mutually beneficial outcomes

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Principled negotiation

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Concept that proposes that any organization operates within a complex environment in which it affects, and is affected by a variety of forces or stakeholders, who all share in the value of the organization and its activities

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Stakeholders concept

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Communication technique to increase the engagement between communicators and their audiences. It involves two-way communication and attention to nonverbal signs that indicate interest and reactions to the message and speaker.

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Active listening

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Process of constructing a message, so that an audience sees communicated facts in a certain way, and is persuaded to take a certain action

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Framing

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In communication any factor that can disrupt the sending and receipt of a message - for example, physical factors, such as loud environments, cultural factors such as distinctive accent, or cognitive factors such as the use of unfamiliar jargon

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Noise

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Components of a message apart from its words. This could include physical gestures and postures and vocal tones, volume, and speed.

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Nonverbals

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Legal system based on writing codes (laws, rules, or regulations)

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Civil law

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Legal system in which each case is considered in terms of how it relates to legal decisions that have already been made; evolves through judicial decisions overtime

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Common law

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Capacity to recognize, interpret, and behaviorally adapt to multicultural situations and contexts

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Cultural intelligence

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Basic beliefs, attitudes, values behaviors, and customs shared and followed by members of a group, which give rise to the group sense of identity

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Culture

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Concept that laws are enforced only through accepted, codified procedures

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Due process

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Ability to take an international perspective, inclusive of other cultures views

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Global mindset

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Societies or groups characterized by complex, usually long-standing networks of relationships; Members share a rich history of common experience, so the way they interact and interpret events is often not apparent to outsiders.

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High-context cultures

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Right of a legal body to exert authority over a given geographical territory, subject matter, or persons or institutions

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Jurisdiction

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Societies in which relationships have less history; individuals know each other less well and don’t share a common database of experience, so communication must be very explicit

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Low-context cultures

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Concept that stipulates that no individual is beyond the reach of the law, and that authority is exercised only in accordance with written in publicly disclosed laws

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Rule of law

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Money an organization owes its vendors and suppliers

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Accounts payable

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Money and organizations customers owe the organization

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Accounts receivable

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Applications that can analyze data faster and in more ways than traditional relational databases, offering a multidimensional analysis of business data

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Analytical processing

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Financial physical, and sometimes intangible properties and organization owns

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Assets

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Statement of an organization’s financial position at a specific point in time, showing assets, liabilities and shareholder equity

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Balance sheet

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Performance management tool that depicts an organizations overall performance, as measured against goals, lagging indicators, and leading indicators

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Balanced scorecard

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Presentation to management that establishes that a specific problem exists, and argues for proposed solution

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Business case

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Ability to use information to gain a deeper understanding of an organization, and make sound business decisions

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Business intelligence

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Statement of an organizations ability to meet its current and short-term obligations, showing incoming and outgoing cash and cash reserves in operations, investments, and financing

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Cash flow statement

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Business management software, usually a suite of integrated applications, that a company can use to collect, store, manage, and interpret data from many business activities

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Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

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Amount of owners, or shareholders portion of the business

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Equity

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Ratio of gross profit to net sales

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Gross profit margin

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Statement that reports revenues, expenses, and profits for a specified period of time, for example, quarterly or annually

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Income statement

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Organizations debts, and other financial obligations

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Liabilities

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Ratio of net income (gross sales minus expenses and taxes) to net sales

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Net profit margin

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Document that defines the output customers can expect

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Service-level agreement

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The benefit created when an organization meets its strategic goals; measure of usefulness, worth, or importance

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Value

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The process by which an organization creates the product or service it offers to the customer

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Value chain

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Providing guidance to organizational stakeholders; involves diagnosing problems or identifying opportunities, developing effective solutions, winning support for solutions, and implementing them effectively

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Consultation

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Tool designed to analyze the forces favoring and opposing a particular change. A group identifies and weights factors that could influence an outcome in either a negative or positive manner, according to their possible impact, and then uses these factors to score different opportunities.

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Force-field analysis

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Visualization of the impact of change on productivity. When changes introduced, there is typically a decrease in productivity and then a gradual return to or, ideally, a surpassing, a previous levels or productivity.

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J curve

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Type of analysis in which a team determines critical characteristics of a successful decision, and then uses a matrix to score each alternative and compare results

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Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA)

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Type of analysis, in which a group identifies strengths, opportunity, aspirations, and results; a framework that combines fact-finding with an organizations, goals and desires, presenting an analysis of the organizations actual state, and how it will measure achievement

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SOAR analysis

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Data sorting technique in which a group categorizes in sub categorizes data until relationships are clearly drawn

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Affinity diagramming

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Technique that progressively collect information from a group of anonymous respondents

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Delphi technique

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Small group of invited persons (typically 6 to 12) who actively participate in a structured discussion, led by a facilitator, for the purpose of eliciting their input

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Focus group

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Average score or value

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Mean

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Middle value in a range of values

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Median

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Data sorting technique in which group members add related ideas in indicate logical connections, eventually grouping similar ideas

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Mind mapping

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Value that occurs most frequently in a set of data

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Mode

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Technique in which participants, each suggest ideas through a series of rounds and then discuss the items, eliminate redundancies and irrelevancies, and agree on the importance of the remaining items

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Nominal group technique (NGT)

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Subjective evaluation of actions, feelings, or behaviors

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Qualitative data

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Objective measurements that can be verified and used in statistical analysis

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Quantitative data

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Comparing the sizes of two variables to produce an index or percentage; commonly used to analyze financial statements

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Ratio analysis

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Statistical method used to determine whether a relationship exists between variables and the strength of the relationship

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Regression analysis

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Extent to which a measurement instrument provides consistent results

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Reliability

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Type of analysis that starts with the result, and then works backward to identify fundamental cause

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Root-cause analysis

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Statistical method used to test the possible effects of altering the details of a strategy to see if the likely outcome can be improved

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Scenario/what-if analysis

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Distance of any data point from the center of a distribution when data is distributed in a “normal” or expected pattern

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Standard deviation

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Statistical method that examines data from different points in time to determine if a variance is an isolated event, or if it is a part of a longer trend

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Trend analysis

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Raw average data that gives equal weight to all values, with no regard for other factors

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Unweighted mean

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Extent to which a measurement instrument measures what it’s intended to measure

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Validity

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Statistical method for identifying the degree of difference between planned and actual performance or outcomes

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Variance analysis

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Average data that adds factors to reflect the importance of different values

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Weighted mean

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