| 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 |