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BE B 2.02
EC-903
Term | Definition |
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Alterative Resources | A resource that can be used in place of another |
Automation | A method of operating or controlling a process in which tasks are completed by automatic means, such technology, reducing human effort and labor |
Baby Boomers | A term used to refer to individuals wo were before between the years 1946 and 1964 |
Capital Goods | Manufactured or constructed items that are used to produce goods and servicers |
Conserve | To slow down the use of something to make its supply last longer than it would otherwise |
Consumer Goods and Services | Products produced for personal consumption |
Demographics | Information used to describe a population |
Economic Resources | The human and natural resources and capital goods used to produce goods and services; also known as factors of production |
Employee assistances program | A project organized and sponsored by company to help its employees |
Entrepreneurs | People who assume the risk of starting and operating businesses |
Entrepreneurship | Starting and building a business |
Factors of Productions | Productive resources; human and natural resources and capital goods; also known as economic resources |
Financial Capital | Money needed to operate businesses |
Flextime | A scheduling procedure in which employees select their own working hours as long as they work the required numbers of hours |
Fossil Fuels | Nonrenewable, carbon-based energy sources formed underground from the fossilized remains of plants and animals |
Generation X | A term used to refer individuals who were born in the years 1965 and 1980; also known as gen x |
Generation Y | A term used to refer individuals who were born in the years 1981 and 1995; also known 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 than being stockpiled |
Natural Resources | Items that are found in nature and used to produce goods and services |
Nonrenewable Resources | Natural resources that may become entirely depleted; natural resources that cannot be replenished after use |
Producers | The people who provide goods and services |
Production | The economic process or activity of producing goods and services |
Raw Materials | Items in their natural state or condition |
Resource Owners | Those who provide human resources, natural resources, and capital goods in order for production to take place |
Shared time | When two employees share the responsibility for one full-time position |
Stockpiling | Marinating a large inventory |
Technology | Scientific applications to business objectives or the methods used to attain those objectives |