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Rationalization
 
  Rationalization can refer to any of the following:
  • Rationalization (psychology)
    Rationalization (psychology)

    In psychology and logic, rationalization is the process of constructing a logical justification for a belief, decision, action or lack thereof that was originally arrived at through a different mental process....
    , the process of constructing a logical justification for a decision that was originally arrived at through a different mental process
  • Rationalization, in hypnosis, the rational justification for obeying a suppressed post-hypnotic command
  • Rationalization (economics)
    Rationalization (economics)

    In economics, rationalization is an attempt to change a pre-existing ad hoc workflow into one that is based on a set of published rules. There is a tendency in modern times to quantify experience, knowledge economy, and Labour ....
    , an attempt to change a pre-existing ad-hoc workflow into one that is based on a set of published rules
  • Rationalization (sociology)
    Rationalization (sociology)

    In sociology, rationalization is the process whereby an increasing number of social actions and interactions become based on considerations of efficiency or calculation rather than on motivations derived from custom, tradition, or emotion....
    , the means of transition from a traditional society into a rationalized one
  • Rationalization, in politics, justification of power by means of rationality (rationality and power
    Rationality and power

    Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice is a book authored by Bent Flyvbjerg and published by The University of Chicago Press . The book is a study of how Power influences rationality and democracy in urban policy and planning....
    )
  • Rationalisation, in 'between the wars' British history, the process of destroying old factories and gradually replacing them with newer and better ones. This was initiated by Neville Chamberlain
    Neville Chamberlain

    Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British Conservative Party politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain is best known for appeasement foreign policy, in particular regarding his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany, and for his "containm...
     in 1931 and it eventually ended in 1938
  • Rationalisation (mathematics)
    Rationalisation (mathematics)

    In elementary algebra root rationalisation is a process by surds in the denominator of a fraction are eliminated.These surds may be monomials or binomials involving square roots, in simple examples....
    , the process of removing a square root or imaginary number from the denominator of a fraction. See conjugate (algebra)
    Conjugate (algebra)

    In algebra, a conjugate of an element in a quadratic extension field of a field K is its image under the unique non-identity automorphism of the extended field that fixes K....
     and complex conjugate
    Complex conjugate

    In mathematics, the complex conjugate of a complex number is given by changing the sign of the imaginary part. Thus, the conjugate of the complex number...
  • Rationalisation, in engineering (within complex impedance and admittance systems), to multiply the numerator and denominator by the complex conjugate of the denominator to remove the imaginary numbers from the denominator while converting admittance to impedance
  • Rationalisation, business jargon for a reduction in numbers, especially the laying off
    Layoff

    Layoff is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or a group of employees for business reasons, such as the decision that certain positions are no longer necessary or a business slow-down or interruption in work....
     of staff