Radio-frequency identification (RFID), 410–411

Ratio analysis

• activity, 431

• categories of, 431t

• defined, 431

• leverage, 431

• liquidity, 431

• profitability, 431

• trend analysis, 431

Rational decision-making, 136, 140

Raw materials, 7–8, 469

Recruitment

• equal opportunity legislation, 225–226

• job analysis, 220

• job specifications, 220

• organization culture and, 381–382

• relationships of, 221f

• selection, 226

• socialization, 381

Reengineering improvements, 498–500

Regression method, 119, 119f

Relay assembly test room experiments, 452

Repatriation, 86–87

Repetitive process, 425

Resistance to change, 247–248

Responsibility, 199

• clarifying job activities, 201

• dividing job activities, 200–201

Responsibility gaps, 200–201

Responsible buying area (social audit), 33

Retrenchment, 165

Reverse discrimination, 63

Reverse innovation, 494

Reverse mentoring, 57

"Righting-the-wrongs" approach to pluralism, 65–66

Rights Standard (ethics), 41

Risk

• decision-making, 141

• entrepreneurial, 471, 474

• multinational corporations, 85

Robotics, 420–421

Role conflict, 60

Role overload, 60