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  1. Process or technique of managing a business.
  2. Systems vary according to the type of
  3. organization, company, and objectives. In
  4. Europe, there has been a trend toward
  5. management by consensus, rather than by the
  6. individual. Since the early 1970s, there has
  7. been a growing demand for learned management
  8. skills, such as those taught in the Harvard
  9. Business School (US) and at the London
  10. Business School. By contrast, in Japan, such
  11. skills are learned on the job; employees tend
  12. to spend their careers with the same company
  13. and toward the end of it will acquire
  14. management status.
  15.