AI |
Artificial Intelligence |
ABC |
Activity Based Costing |
ABC |
Antecedents, Behaviours, Consequences |
ABC |
Affects, Behaviours, Cognition |
ATS |
Applicant Tracking System |
BARS |
Behaviourally Anchored Rating Scales |
BFM |
Business Performance Management |
BOP |
Bottom of Pyramid |
CAD |
Computer Aided Design |
CAM |
Computer Aided Manufacturing |
CBT |
Computer-based training |
CMM |
Capability Maturity Model |
COST |
Concerns, Opportunities, Strengths, Threats |
CQ |
Cultural Intelligence |
CSF |
Critical Success Factor |
CSR |
Corporate Social Responsibility |
CRM |
Customer Relationship Management |
CRQ |
Corporate Reputation Quotient |
CVF |
Competing Values Framework |
CWQM |
Company-Wide Quality Management |
DICE |
Driving Improved Customer Experience |
EVM |
Earned Value Management |
EAP |
Employee Assistance Programme |
EBITDA |
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortisation |
EDI |
Electronic Data interchange |
EFQM |
European Foundation for Quality Management |
EI |
Emotional Intelligence |
EPOS |
Electronic Point of Sale |
EPS |
Earnings Per Share |
EQ |
Emotional Intelligence |
EVM |
Earned Value Management |
EVP |
Employment Value Proposition |
FIRO |
Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation |
FOG |
Feelings, Opinions, Guesses |
FOG |
Flat Out Guess |
FOG |
Frequency of Gobbledygook |
FUTURE |
Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical, Ethical |
GIGO |
Garbage In, Garbage Out |
HCI |
Human Capital Index |
HR |
Human Resources |
HRM |
Human Resources Management |
IBR |
I'll Be Retired |
ILO |
International Labour Office |
INVEST |
Inspired learners, Nurtured, Vision, Empowered, Supported, Transformed |
IPO |
Initial Public Offering |
IQ |
Intelligence Quotient |
ISO |
International Standards Organisation |
JIT |
Just-in-Time (Manufacturing) |
JCM |
Job Characteristics Model |
KITA |
Kick in the Ass (School of Management) |
KM |
Knowledge Management |
KPI |
Key Performance Indicator |
LBO |
Leveraged Buy-Out |
LIFO |
Last in, First out |
M & A |
Mergers and Acquisitions |
MARI |
Milestones, Actions, Relationships, Schedules |
MBO |
Management Buy-Out |
MBTI |
Myers Briggs Type Indicator |
MCI |
Management Charter Initiative |
MOSAIC |
Mission, Objectivity, Skilled, Active, Individual, Empowered |
NIMBY |
Not In My back Yard |
NPV |
Net Present Value |
NGO |
National Governmental Organisation |
OAK |
One Ass to Kick |
OAK |
ownership, Accountability, Knowledge |
O&M |
Organisation and Methods |
OB |
Organisational Behaviour |
OECD |
Organisation for Economic and Cooperative Development |
OD |
Organisation Development |
OPQ |
Occupational Personality Questionnaire |
OSWT |
Opportunities, Strengths, Weaknesses, Threats |
OSM |
Office of Strategic Management |
P&L |
Profit and Loss |
PAL |
Pool, Ally, Link |
PAEI |
Producer, Administartor, Entrepreneur, Integrator |
PPP |
People, Process, Products |
PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant |
PDCA |
Plan, Do, Check, Act |
PDSA |
Plan, Do, Study, Act |
PE |
Process Engineering |
PERT |
Programme Evaluation and Review Teaching |
PEST |
Political, Econonmic, Societal, Technical |
POETS |
Piss Off Early Tomorrow's Saturday |
POSDCORB |
Planning, Organising, Staffing, Directing, Co-ordinating, Reporting, and Budgeting |
QUANGO |
Quasi National Governmental Organisation |
R&D |
Research and Development |
RACI |
Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed |
RADIO |
Risks, Assumptions, Decisions, Issues, Opportunities |
RAISE |
Responsibility, Authority, Informed, Support, Execution |
RASCI |
Responsible, Accountable, Supported, Consulted, Informed |
RAMMP |
Reports, Aprovals, Meetings, Measurements, Policies |
RVG |
Relative Value of Growth |
RBSE |
Role breadth Self-Efficacy |
SBU |
Strategic Business Unit |
SCANS |
Secretary's Commission for Necessary Skills |
SCM |
Supply Chain Management |
SECI |
Socialisation, Externalisation,Combination, Internalisation |
SLEPT |
Social, Legal, Economic, Political, Technological |
SMART |
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timed |
SSM |
Soft Systems Methodology |
STEP |
Sociological, Technical, Economic, Political |
SWOT |
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats |
TPM |
Total Productive Maintainance |
TQM |
Total Quality Management |
TSR |
Total Sharehoder Return |
WYSIWYG |
What You See is What you Get |