Korean slang profile
MBO
mbo
Management by objectives
An abbreviation for management by objectives, setting work goals and managing around members’ autonomous methods and results.
- Expanded form
- management by objectivemanagement by objective
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Nov 1999
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
팀이 함께 목표를 정하는 MBO 방식을 논의했다.
The team discussed MBO, setting goals together.
02Documented history
No history documented.
03Origin & word formation
Gyeonggi Province’s November 1999 지식행정 용어해설집 gives this abbreviation and a corresponding definition. The first user and time have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The November 1999 revised edition was compared on PDF page 124. It is a general or specialist abbreviation of the time, not a claim of first use or popularity that year. This covers the management-by-objectives usage on page 124, distinct from the management-buyout usage and its expanded spelling on page 324 of the same book.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 지식행정 용어해설집 (경기도, 1999년 11월 수정판)Published Nov 1999Original source checked Nov 15, 2026