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.
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 : This approach devotes its attentioin to the man in the organisation and the informal relations that given the organisations activities.
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.
SAM-Software Asset Management is a business process through which a firm's overall business investmment in software solutions is maximsed for optional value.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 : A systematic and objective process of analysing and determining the nature and characteristics of jobs and occupations and their relationship to effectiveness of organisations.
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- 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.
Social equity- The delivery of services and goods by the administration should be directly related to needs to less privileged people on priorty basis.
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.
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.
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.