Vocabulary Flashcards
“Great Man”
A nineteenth-century theory that states that history is largely explained by the impact of great men or heroes and their superior intellect and other attributes.
360 evaluation
A process through which feedback from an employee’s subordinates, colleagues and supervisors as well as a self-evaluation by the employee themselves is gathered
Accounts receivable
Money owed to a company by its debtors
acquisitiveness
Excessive interest in acquiring money or material objects
affiliative
The need to form social or emotional bonds with others
allocation
To distribute or to give each person a portion of something.
assets
Property owned by an organization or individual
assumptions
Anything that is accepted as true or certain to happen, without proof
attributes
A quality or feature of something.
attrition
It is not to replace employees when they leave
authoritarian
To act in a dictatorial manner. Enforcing strict obedience.
balance sheet
A statement of assets, liabilities, and capital for an organization at a particular point in time
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.
bias
A prejudice in favor or against one thing, person or group compared to another, usually in a way that is considered unfair or unjust
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
