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Piece rate

Piece rate : Principle of wage payment.

Shop system

Shop system : Where the work is done under the optimum conditions.

Industrial blues

Industrial blues : Depression, irritability, a complete loss of interest among the workers in a  highly mechanised factories.

Proverbs of administration

Proverbs of administration :  Herbert simon ridiculing the 'principle of administration'.

Staff and Line

Staff and Line : Planners and operators.

Functional foreman

Functional foreman : Specialist supervisor.

Midvale stree company

Midvale stree company : Where taylor observed the workers and conducted experiments.

Mental revolution

Mental revolution : Changing of mental attitudes of workers and management towards incresing   surplus to such an extent that division of output between them is not necessary.

Great illumination

Great illumination : Elton mayo's network of experiments which had thrown light on the new areas  of industrial relations.

Declaration

Declaration-CSS code inside pair of curly brackets which has property and    value for the sector. example {font-size : 1.5 em;}

Hectocorn

Hectocorn-A term used to describe a company valued at over 100 billion.

Passphrase

Passphrase : It is a type of password composed of a sentence or combination of words.

Mention

Mention : Referring to a person or account on the social media websites.

Scalar

Scalar : A variable , or scalar field, is a variable that holds one value  at a time.

Param

Param : Parameter is a variable in computer programming language   that is used to pass information between functions and procudures.

Motion and time study

Motion and time study : Studying the workers handling the jobs.

Plural society

Plural society : A society having groups of distinct ethnic  origin, cultural forms, religion etc.

Behavioural Approach

Behavioural Approach : The human relations approach and behavioural    approach broadly deal with the man as a focus, while the former  deals with the relationships among the people working in organistions, the latter with the 'inside' human being with focus on the place of  his values and rationality in the working of an organisation.

Human Relations Approach

Human Relations Approach : This approach devotes its attentioin to the man in the organisation and the informal relations that given the  organisations activities.

Self accommodation

Self accommodation : An act or process by which individuals or groups  attempt to adjust or modify their attitudes, values, roles or behaviour patterns in order to internalise or otherwise come to common terms with the various aspects of an organisational or social environments.

Software Asset Management

SAM-Software Asset Management is a business process through which a firm's overall business investmment in software solutions is maximsed for optional value.

Zigbee

Zigbee- A wirelesss protocol common in connected products operating   within mesh network.

Platform security

Platform security-The term refers to the security architecture, tools    and processes that ensure the security of an entire computing platform.

HFR

HFR-High frame rate is cinematic term refering to a faster capture      and subsequent playback of more video frames than usual.

Backlight

Backlight-It is a type of illumination used in monitors utilising liquid   crystal display(LCD) technology.

Dark social-

Dark social-Coined by Alexis C Madrigal, it refers to the social sharing  of content that can't be measured by web analytics programs.

Nixie

Nixie -A wearable selfie drone that is worn on the wrist before it launches   to take a selfie from the air.

Back quote

Back quote-A symbol or punctuation mark that is common in computer and mobile  keyboards or key strings.

Cache cramming

Cache cramming-It is the process of making a computer execute a       malicious file that would other wise be restricted.

Tag cloud

Tag cloud -A logical arrangement of keywords within a textual content that     visually describes the subject of a website or blog.

Kaizen

Kaizen-It is a process management used for continuous product maturation    and improvement.

Machine generated data

Machine generated data-It is the explicit result of a computer process  or application process, created without human intervention.

Page setup

Page setup- A set of specific parameters which forms the display and   layout of a printed page.

Clinical method

Clinical method : The method which focuses one's attention on the behaviour of the workers       and their productive capacity.

Great illumination

Great illumination : Elton mayo's network of experiments which had thrown light on the new areas  of industrial relations.

Planning, programming and budgeting system(PPBS)

Planning, programming and budgeting system(PPBS) : Used in the executive branch of the U.S federal  Government. Also put to limited use in some Ministries in India. The budget clearly reflects  the Department's objectives and programmes in fulfilment of these. The output of each programme  has to be calculated in relation to the obejectives and total costs.

Bazaar-canteen

Bazaar-canteen : The "economic scene" in a prismatic society.

Formal

Formal : The official norm, the theory, what ought to be done, as expressed in constitutions,      laws, rules and regulations.

Functionally diffuse

Functionally diffuse : A structure that performs a large number of functions.

Fused

Fused : A social system where all structures are highly diffuse.

Heterogeniety

Heterogeniety : The simultaneous presence, side by side, of quite different kinds of systems,    practices and view points.

Absolute monarch

Absolute monarch : The king/queen/Emperor who holds unrestricted/complete power for life.

Capitalist state

Capitalist state : State where the ownership and control of capital is in private hands.

Policy state

Policy state : A state in which political stability seems to be dependent upon police         supervision of the ordinary citizen and in which the poice are given power suitable to that.

Positivist

Positivist : One who recognises only positive facts and observable phenomena.

Ombudsmanic

Ombudsmanic : Investigation of individual's complaints against public authorities.

Sadvertising

Sadvertising-It refers to a consumer advertising trend in which ad creators use   strategies to play on people's emotions.

Technocracy

Technocracy-It is an ideology that models government in a way which puts emphasis  on technical skill and efficiency.

Databank

Databank- A well organised collection of data which is made accesible on   local and remote servers.

A/B testing

A/B testing-Presenting two different versions of online content, like   a web page or marketing email to see which one users respond to better.

Carrier

Carrier-In the context of cellular technology, it a company that   provides mobile services.

Landscape

Landscape-It is a horizontal orientation mode used to display wide-screen  content, such as a web page, image, document or text.

Paging

Paging-In this, data are stored and managed in identical consistent blocks.

Nanophotonics

Nanophotonics-It refers to the use of light in nanoscale projects.     This field is associated with some specific break-throughs in using  light in new technologies.

Failover

Failover -It is the constant capability to automatically and seamlessly  switch to a highly reliable backup.

Page rank

Page rank- An algorithm used by Google search engine to measure that authority    of a webpage.

Backslash

Backslash-It is a symbol used in computer and computing applications to   perform specific operations and tasks.

Fabless

Fabless-Fabless manufacturing involves making hardware in locations    without specific fabrication for core-tech.

Camelcase -

Camelcase - It is a naming convention for writing file or object names     using compounded or joined words and beginning in a capital letter.

Thermistor

Thermistor - short for thermal resistor, it is a type of resistor used  to measure ambient temperature of internal computer components.

Faceplate-

Faceplate-Piece of material that is used to fit over a device's components   for protection and for enhancing the design and apperance of the device.

Packet

Packet- In computer networks, a packet carries data over a TCP/IP network   and internet networks.

Pay to play

Pay to play-Pay to play refers to online games where users must pay to access.   Some to these (P2P) games are found within social networking sites.

Pango

Pango-AN open-source project which creates a uniform framework to render international   text characters

Databus

Databus - A system within a computer with a connector that allows        data transportation.

Influencer

Influencer- A person who affects opinions and behaviour through social media.

Poly-communal

Poly-communal : A society that is composed of several communities.

Poly-functional

Poly-functional : A structure is poly-functional whose functions are more diffuse than those of  an association, but more specific than those of a traditional family.

Poly-normative

Poly-normative : Refers to the characteristic myth system of the "prismatic" society.

Prismatic

Prismatic : The mid-area on the continuum between the "fused" and "diffused" models.

Structure

Structure : A pattern of behaviour which has became a standard features of a social system.

Constitutional law

Constitutional law : The branch of law that governs the formation, reformation and application of a constitution.

Industrial revolution

Industrial revolution : The transformation of society, occuring first in Britain in the second    half of the 18th century and the first part of the 19th century, in which the bulk of the   working population changed from agriculture to industry.

Post colonial societies

Post colonial societies : Societies which have attined independence from colonial rule.

Pressure Groups

Pressure Groups : A group which has sufficient influence on central Government to be able to put Pressure on behalf of its interests.

Overlapping

Overlapping : The extent to which what is described as "administrative" behaviour is actually             determined by non-administrative criteria, i.e by political, social, religious        or other factors.

Job evaluation

Job evaluation : A systematic and objective process of analysing and determining the nature and    characteristics of jobs and occupations and their relationship to effectiveness of  organisations.

Performance Budget

Performance Budget : A budget wherein expenditures are based primarily upon measurable    performance of activities and work programmes.

Plural supervision

Plural supervision : when a member of an organisation is supervised by various specialists   alongwith administrative supervisor.

Work flow study

Work flow study : Study of procedures of the job of the employees at work.

Work simplication

Work simplication : Ascertaining the best possible ways to perform work activities in terms of   personnel, time, equipment or other related factors.

Cost benifit analysis

Cost benifit analysis : The systematic method and process of studying and evaluating whether the   expenditure for products, materials or services are justified by the benefits they may provide.

Administrative accountability

Administrative accountability- Accountability of the junior about their decisions and actions  to the seniors -within the bureaucracy, and accountability of the executive branch of the  government to the legislature.

Administrative capability

Administrative capability-Ability fo the administrative arm of government to perform or achieve  its objective.

Administrative effectiveness

Administrative effectiveness- The degree or extent of objective/goal achieveemnt by an organisation.

Administrative efficiency

Administrative efficiency- the ratio of output to input in an organisation.

Organisation equity

Organisation equity - Fair deal of all the employees, with particular attention at lower levels   of an organisation.

Social equity

Social equity- The delivery of services and goods by the administration should be directly   related to needs to less privileged people on priorty basis.

Pressure group

Pressure group - An interest group which has sufficient influence on central government to be able  to put pressure on behalf of its interests.

Totalitarian

Totalitarian- A state is totalitarian when the aims, activities and membership of all associations  are subject to the control of the state.

Diffracted

Diffracted : A social system where all structure are very specific.

Welfare state

Welfare state : A state which makes substantial provision through law and administration for   deprived sections and those in need. eg the sick, poor, elderly etc.

Formal organisation

Formal organisation : Organisation in which emphasis is placed on design and structure.

Profit centre approach

Profit centre approach : Under this the company establishes self-sufficient, self-contained,  and semi-autonomous units which are responsible for their own profit or loss. In such units  profits become a direct concern of individuals, it means each unit becomes a "profit centre".  This helps in simulating pesonal efforts.

Coordination

Coordination : Bringing about cooperation and team work among employees of an organisation by    removing conflicts and overlapping from administration.

Grapevine

Grapevine :Beside formal communication channels, every organisation has an informal communication    channel which is referred to as grapevine.

Market/Money economy

Market/Money economy : Economy where exchange of goods and services takes place with    the use of money.

Feudalism

Feudalism : The legal and social system that evolved in western europe in the 8th and 9th            centuries in which vassals were protected and maintained by their lords, usually  through granting of property, and were required to serve under them in war.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur : The owner or manager of a business enterprise who by risk and initiative  attempts to make profits.

Ostracism

Ostracism : To exclude or banish from a particular group or society.

Silhoutte

Silhoutte : The outline of a solid figure as cast by its shadow.

Span of attention

Span of attention : A superior can't effectively pay attention on a large number of subordinates    as there are limits to human capacity.

Psychological Complaints

Psychological Complaints : Complaints regarding mental stress and strain.

Material complaints

Material complaints : Complaints relating to monetary matters.

Combination

Combination : An arrangement of numbers of a set into specified groups without regard to order   in the group.

Permutation

Permutation : An ordered arrangement of the numbers of a set into specified groups.

Span of attention

Span of attention : A superior can't effectively pay attention on a large number of subordinates      as there are limits to human capacity.

Performance appraisal

Performance appraisal : Assessing the capabilities of a person in terms of the contribution    towards the achievement of organisational goals.

Axiomatic

Axiomatic : Self evident truth.

Unassailable

Unassailable : That which can't be attacked or questioned.