Risk Management
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The narrative structure of risk accounts
Risk Management - Tập 13 - Trang 101-121 - 2011
In this article, the author considers such risk warning signs as ‘Stand behind the yellow line’ paradigmatic of risk accounts and approaches these signs in the light of narrative theory, more specifically structural and post-structural narratology. There are three related purposes for this approach. First, it is to demonstrate the relevance of narratology for risk research. Second, it is to provid......
The Effect of Weather Factors on the Severity of Fishing Boat Accidents in Atlantic Canada
Risk Management - Tập 7 - Trang 21-40 - 2005
Commercial fishing is an inherently risky industry, and the safety of the people and property involved is always a concern of maritime administrations. The purpose of this study is to determine whether certain weather factors affect the severity of fishing incidents. The study area encompasses a broad extent of Atlantic Canadian waters, using fishing boat incidents recorded by Canadian Coast Guard......
Managing risks through ISO 31000: A critical analysis
Risk Management - Tập 14 - Trang 272-300 - 2012
Managing risks is a strategic challenge for organizations, which must face threats increasingly complex and diverse. Introduced in 2009, the ISO 31000 standard is intended to help organizations to manage in a systematic and comprehensive manner diverse types of risk by offering a universal framework ‘to assist the organization to integrate risk management into its overall management system’ (ISO, ......
Avoiding extreme risk before it occurs: A complexity science approach to incubation
Risk Management - Tập 12 - Trang 54-82 - 2010
Crises appearing in many kinds of organizations are found to be mostly caused by management and workers. The acquisition of the Southern Pacific railroad by the Union Pacific in 1996 provides a dramatic case of how tiny initiating events – incubation events – that appeared chaotic, random and unimportant to an arrogant management spiralled into a crisis. This article draws on theories from complex......
Combining central planning and decentralization to enhance effective risk management outcomes
Risk Management - Tập 12 - Trang 101-115 - 2010
Enterprise risk management has gained in prominence as official regulations emphasize implementation of formal practices to safeguard against adverse corporate events. Whereas this development has increased general risk awareness, the adoption of centralized integrative frameworks is not necessarily sufficient in dealing effectively with uncertainty and unexpected events that seem to characterize ......
High-Risk Decisions When Probabilities Are Unknown (or Irrelevant)
Risk Management - Tập 7 - Trang 57-61 - 2005
High-risk exposures, those with the potential to destroy or seriously impair an individual, business or society, are our greatest ‘risk management’ concern. Yet when it comes to such rare, high-impact events, probability information is scarce, and may ultimately be useless as a guide to action. In this paper, we review the appropriateness of probability-based techniques, primary expected value dec......
Employee Perceptions of Prejudice and Violence in the Workplace: Implications for Corporate Security
Risk Management - Tập 8 - Trang 175-191 - 2006
Using secondary data, an analysis was conducted to determine how worker mistreatment by co-workers affects performance and well-being. Perceived negative treatment experienced because of age, sex, race, ethnicity, and education, and a group of eight less subtle forms of harassment, were used as predictors of maladaptive emotional and behavioral responses in a set of bivariate and multivariate OLS ......
Managing the Risks within Automotive Manufacturing
Risk Management - Tập 1 - Trang 7-23 - 1999
Risk is an inadvertent part of all projects. Nevertheless, organisations around the world are managing the risk to which they are exposed, and thereby increasing their competitive edge within the market place. However the majority of the transportation manufacturing sector has yet to realise the benefits attached to implementing risk management as part of their operations. This paper offers a Risk......
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