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DEMARCHE ASCENDANTE [4 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 1998-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Theory
  • Decision-Making Process
OBS

Planning which is decentralized and which takes place at the development project level.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories de la gestion
  • Processus décisionnel
OBS

Modèle de prise de décision qui consiste à consulter les employés dans une entreprise.

Spanish

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Record 2 1994-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

Employing forward-chaining of rules to search for the goal (event-driven or data-driven control structure).

CONT

... a bottom-up approach in which the task in the appropriate level of abstraction is derived from the most specific tasks in the domain.

CONT

The project has taken a bottom-up approach in that a specific topic has been identified for demonstration of feasibility and the solution to this specific problem will subsequently be generalized to a wider set of application domains.

OBS

As opposed to "top-down approach."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 3 1991-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Control
CONT

Almost without exception, the Japanese managers we interviewed had endeavored to apply the "bottom-up" style of management in the United States.

Key term(s)
  • bottom-up

French

Domaine(s)
  • Contrôle de gestion
DEF

Méthode de gestion faisant appel à la participation de base.

CONT

A de très rares exceptions près, tous les dirigeants japonais interrogés ont déclaré avoir essayé d'appliquer aux États-Unis le système de la pyramide inversée.

OBS

Il ne faut pas confondre gestion démocratique et gestion participative, forme de gestion collégiale.

OBS

Gestion démocratique : Terme entériné par le Comité de linguistique de Radio-Canada et le Secrétariat d'État du Canada.

Key term(s)
  • démarche ascendante

Spanish

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Record 4 1986-07-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

In a bottom-up approach ... The actual of a focal task or situation are assumed to exert primary influence on a subject's performance. I shall often identify molar with "top-down" and molecular with "bottom-up" not because each is logically bound to the other, but because they often, and typically, occur together.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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