Universal Management Definitions IMSIG has defined the following universal set of management definitions which are mutually consistent enabling clear and unambiguous communication across disciplines and organisational silos. The definitions also form part of MSS 1000 . Action Agility Algorithm Analysis Arrangement As applicable As appropriate Aspect Aspect and impact identification Aspiration Asset Assurance Atomic Audit Authority Automatic process Availability Behaviour Benchmarking Best Available Techniques (BAT) Best Practicable Environmental Option (BPEO) Brand Bribery Calibrate Capital Certificate Chief executive Classification Coincident indicator Colour coded communication (CCC) Commerce Commercial awareness Commercial responsibility Common cause failure Communicate Competence Competence Base Condition Confidentiality Configuration Conflicting stakeholder Conformity Consciousness Contingency Contingency process Contingency structure Contract Continual Convention Cooperate Coordinate Core process Corporate leadership Correction Corrective action Cost benefit analysis Covert Creativity Crisis Criteria Cryptography Cryptography keys Customer Danger Data Database Defense in depth Define Delegate Delivery chain Design Design principles Determine Disaster recovery Diversity Document Due diligence Duty Economic Ecosystem Education Effective Efficient Emergency Emission Enterprise Entity Environment Ethical Ethical behaviour Employee Equitable Event Event classification Evidence based Evidence informed Expectation Expert Expert committee Explicit knowledge External audit (2nd party audit) Facility Failure Financial capital Fitness For-cause Fractal Fully integrated management system Future proofing Gender equality Good Goods and/or services delivery capability Governance Harm Hazard Health Highly significant Human capital Human error Human violation Identify Ill health Immediate cause Impact Independent audit (3rd party audit) Indicator Infrastructure Initiative Innovation Inspect Integrated management Integrated management system Integrity Intellectual property Internal audit (1st party audit) Internal climate International norms of behaviour Investigation Just culture Key performance indicator Knowledge Lagging indicator Leadership Leading indicator Lean Life cycle Likelihood Maintain Malware Management Management control Management system representative Management system Management tool Management under uncertainty Manual process Manufacture Manufactured capital Market Marketing Measurement Mission Mitigate Mode Monitoring Natural capital Near miss Need Network Nonconformity Nonconformity disposition Normal process Normal structure Objective Observation Occupational stress Operability Operation Operational process Opportunity Option Organization Organization culture Organization dynamics Organization governance Organization morale Organization size Organogram Outsource Overt Peer review Performance Performance indicator Permit for work Permit to work Personal protective equipment PPE Plan Plan-Do-Check-Act Planned monitoring Planned monitoring findings Policy Pollution Post Practicable Precautionary principle Preventive action Privacy Productivity Principle Proactive Procedure Process Process variation Program Project Prospect Prospect and risk Prospect and/or risk analysis and synthesis Prospect and/or risk assessment Prospect and/or risk barrier Prospect and/or risk based Prospect and/or risk controls Prospect and/or risk improvement Prospect and/or risk indicator Prospect and/or risk informed Prospect and/or risk informed monitoring Prospect and/or risk rating Prospect and/or risk register Prospect and risk management Prospect and/or risk: controlled Prospect and/or risk: residual Prospect and/or risk: uncontrolled Prospect: acceptable Prospect: high Prospect: tolerable Prospect: unacceptable Purpose Quality Reactive Reactive investigation Reconcile Record Redundancy Relativistic Reliability Remanufacture Requirement Resilience Responsibility Resource Review Risk Risk assessment Risk management Risk: acceptable Risk: low Risk: tolerable Risk: unacceptable Robust Role Root cause Root cause classification Royalty free Safety Security Segregation Service Service mark Significant Social capital Social dialogue Social responsibility Software Sphere of influence Stakeholder Stakeholder engagement Statistical process control Strategic process Strategy Stress Stressor Structure Structure and/or process definition Structure and/or process owner Social responsibility Source of benefit and/or harm Success Supplier Supply chain Supporting process Sustainability Sustainable development Synergy Synthesis System System of work Systematic Tacit knowledge Tactical process Tactic Taxonomy Tender Test Teleworking Thinking process Threat Top management Traceability Trademark Training Transparency Uncertainty Validation Value Value chain Vector Verification Vision Waste Waste controls hierarchy Welfare Whistleblowing Worker Workplace None
