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B 202 Key Terms
Economic Reseources
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1.Alternative resource: | A resource that can be used in place of another. |
| 2.Automation: | A method of operathing or controlling a process in which tasks are completed by automic means, such as technology, reducing human effort and labor. |
| 3.Baby boomers: | A term used to refer to individuals who were bornbetween the years 1946 and 1964 |
| 4.Capital goods: | Manufactured or constructed items that are used to produce goods and services. |
| 5.Conserve: | To slow down the use of something to make its supply last longer that 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 know as factors of production. |
| Employee assistance program; | A project organized and sponsored by a company to help its employees |
| Entrepreneurs: | People who assume the risks of starting and operation businesses |
| Entrepreneurship: | Starting and buiding a businesses |
| Factors of production: | Productive resources; human and natural resources and capital goods; also know as economic resources. |
| Financial capital: | Money needed to operate a businesses |
| Flextime: | A scheduling procedure in which employees select their own working hours as long as tehy work the requerid numbeer 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 to individuals who were born between the years 1965 and 1980; also know as millennials |
| Generation Y: | Aterm used to refer to individuals who wre born between the years 1982 and 1995; also know as millenniasl |
| Human resources: | People who work to rpoduce goods and services |
| Inventory: | Stock of goods |
| Just-im-time inventory: | An inventory method in which goods are ordered so that they arrive when they are needed ather being stockpilied |
| Natural resources: | Items that are found in nature and used to produced goods and services |
| Nonrenewable resources: | Natural resources that may become entirely depleted; natural resources that cannot be replenished after use |
| Producers: | The people who make or 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: | Maintaining a large inventory |
| Technology: | Scientific applications to businesses objectives or the methods used to attain those objectives |
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