scale

(verb)

To grow and expand rapidly.

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Examples of scale in the following topics:

  • A Brief Definition of Business Ethics

    • There are three parts to the discipline of business ethics: personal (on a micro scale), professional (on an intermediate scale), and corporate (on a macro scale).

  • Credit Unions

    • Credit unions increase competition (big banks tend to be oligopolies, while credit unions are intrinsically smaller in scale, thus high in quantity)
    • Big banks add advantage through scale (along with risk), providing more investment opportunities and global access to capital.

  • Appraisal methods

    • Graphic rating scales: This method involves assigning some form of rating system to pertinent traits.
    • Ratings can be numerical ranges (1-5), descriptive categories (below average, average, above average), or scales between desirable and undesirable traits (poor ↔ excellent).

  • Screening

    • For example, new product ideas can be rated on a scale ranging from very good to poor by such criteria as value added, sales volume, patent protection and affect on present products.
    • A second technique goes beyond the first, in which criteria are assigned importance weights, with products rated on a point scale measuring product compatibility.

  • Are solar voltaics right for your business?

    • For example, calculations for concentrated solar power, which uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto a fluid-filled container to produce steam that drives a turbine, is cost-equivalent to oil priced at $50 per barrel (before payback) – or as low as $20 per barrel (before payback) when the technology is scaled up.

  • Commercial Paper

    • Vertical scale shows debt in billions (thousands of millions) of dollars, horizontal scale shows years.
    • Vertical scale shows debt in millions of dollars, horizontal scale shows years.

  • Inventory Management

    • Economies of scale: To deliver one unit of product at a time, and in response to the specific need and location of a given user, would be costly and logistically difficult.
    • In contrast, bulk buying, movement, and storage translate into economies of scale and inventory.

  • The History of the Marketing Concept

    • Thus, this signifies a firm exploiting economies of scale until the minimum efficient scale is reached.

  • Reinforcement Theory

    • Size - Of course, the scale of the reward or punishment has a big impact on the scale of the response.

  • Managing Up and Employee Feedback

    • This assessment should focus on strengths and weaknesses, usually utilizing some sort of sliding scale.
    • It's not always as simple as rating an individual's performance on a scale of 1-10.