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glossary
Term | Definition |
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alternative resource | a resource that can be used in place of anther |
automation | a method of operating or controlling a process in which task are completed by automatic means such as technology reducing human effort and labor |
baby boomers | a term used to refer to individuals who where born bewteen the years 1946 and 1996 |
capital goods | manufactured or constructed items that are used to produce goods and services |
conserve | to slow down the use of something to make its supply last longer then it would otherwise |
consumer goods and service | products produced for personals consumption |
demographics | information used to describe a population |
economic assistance program | the human and natural resources and capitol goods used to produce goods and services also known as factors of predation |
employee assistance program | a project organized and sponsored by a company to help its employs |
entrepreneurs | people who assume the risks of starting and operating businesses |
entrepreneurship | starting and building a business |
factors of production | productive resources human and natural recourse and capitals goods also know as economic resources |
financial capitol | money needed to operate a business |
flextime | a scheduling procedure in which employees select their own working hours as long as they work the required number of hours |
fossil fuels | nonrenewable carbon based energy source framed underground form the fossilized remains of plants and animals |
generation x | a term used to redder to individuals who born between the years 1995 and 1980 also know as gen x |
generation y | a term used to refer to individuals who where born beaten the years 1981 and 1995 also know as millennials |
human resources | people who work to produce goods and services |
inventory | stock of goods |
just in time inventory | an inventory method in which goods are ordered so that they arrive when they are needed rather then being stockpiled |
natural resources | item that are found in nature and used to produce goods and services |
nonerasable resources | natural resources that may becomes entirety depleted nitrone resources that cannot be replenished |
producers | the people who make or provide goods and service |
production | the economic process or activity of producing goods and services |
raw materials | items in theirs natural state or conation |
resources owners | those who provide human resource natural resources and capitol goods in order for potion to take place |
shared time | when employees share the reponsilillty for full time position |
stockpiling | maintaining a large inventory |
technology | scientific applications tp business objectives or methods used to attention those objectives |