Theory Z of Ouchi is Dr. William Ouchi's so-called "Japanese Management" style popularized during the Asian economic boom of the 1980s. For Ouchi, 'Theory Z' focused on increasing employee loyalty to the company by providing a job for life with a strong focus on the well-being of the employee, both on and off the job.

A profit-sharing plan is a pension plan, which gives an employee a share in the company's profits. As per this plan, which also referred to as the deferred profit-sharing plan (DPSP), employees will go onto receive a portion from the company's profits which depend on the annual or quarterly earnings.

Unstructured interviews are sometimes referred to as 'discovery interviews' and are more like a 'guided conservation' than a strict structured interview. They are sometimes called informal interviews.

Plant Science: Seed Dispersal

Some seeds are carried by animals, some float on the wind, others float on water, some simply roll down hill due to gravity, and still others have ways to shoot out of their seed pods. The ways that seeds move from place to place is called “seed dispersal.”