Gantt charts, 121, 121f, 122, 450

GE Multifactor Portfolio Matrix, 161, 163

• model, 163f

Gender

• boards of directors, 225

• salary gaps, 3, 4f

Gender-role stereotypes, 59

General and Industrial Management (Fayol), 450

General environment

• demographics, 156–157

• economics of, 155–156

• international component, 157–158, 158t

• legal component, 157

• political component, 157

• social values, 157

• technology component, 157

General system theory, 456

Generally Accepted System Security Principles (GASSP), 407, 408t

Generation X, 57

Generation Y, 57

Geocentric attitudes, 92

Glass ceiling, 59

Global banking business, 80

Global organizations, 95

Global procurement, 94

Globalization, 80

Goal-setting, 321

• standards, 395

"Golden Rule" approach to pluralism, 65–66

Good to Great (Collins), 307

Graicuna’s formula, 183

Grapevines, 280–281

• types of, 280f

Graphic break-even analysis, 435

• advantages of, 436

Grid organization development (grid OD), 246–247

Group decision-making, 143

• brainstorming, 144–145

• evaluating, 145

• exercises, 149

• facilitating, 144

• groupthink, 144

• nominal group technique, 145

Group technology layout, 425

Groups

• challenge case, 343, 359

• defined, 344

• development of, 349

• formal, 344–349

• informal, 349–350

• stages of, 349

• work, 350

Groupthink, 144, 347

Growth, 164

• challenge case, 198, 211