To give a reader an idea of the magnitude of such a layoff, this comprises five percent of the overall staff and total workforce of the company. (Treaster, 2004) Poor profits and poor stock performance were cited as reasons -- all the result of a continuing investigation into the company's dodgy legers and questionable business ethics
Clearly, this is a disaster of such enormous magnitude that no amount of strategic planning could have prepared citizens or government officials. An article in Issues in Science and Technology (Beatley, et al
7 earthquake in the island nation of Nias, about 130 km west of Sumatra (near the equator). An article in the journal Emergency Medicine Australasia (Jackson, et al
org). As for the other leading Republican candidate for the nomination to run for the presidency, Mitt Romney, he has "proclaimed doubts about global warming science" and has "trashed President Barack Obama's greenhouse gas emissions policies" (Samuelsohn, 2012)
The planning in this article relates to addressing an island's vulnerability and "coping capacity factors"; the two key aspects of planning for any island nation that is vulnerable to earthquakes are: one: a "closed system analysis" (what are the resources if emergency help is to be provided from within the island's resources?); and two, an "open system" (this relates to the "entry and exit" points for vulnerable components to be reached by outside sources) (Delladetsima, 478). Managing Strategies for Global Climate Change "Although climate change is a global problem, it's one that presents many different faces, ranging all the way from regulatory risk to competitive opportunity… [governments need to know] how to identify ways to mitigate risk and understand how to compete successfully in a carbon-constrained world" (Stewart, 2007, p
An article in the Australian ("Policy in a Smokescreen -- Climate Change -- Special Report -- Business & Environment Part 1") opens with a fact that is very pertinent to any nation attempting to mitigate the issue of climate change. Governments wrestling with strategies to address global warming "…are realizing the difficulty of trying to fix a truly global and inter-generational problem at the level of a sovereign government" (Warren, 2007, p
In China the Wenchuan earthquake (2008) -- an 8.0 on the Richter scale -- caused nearly 70,000 deaths, 374,176 injuries and in addition 18,377 people were missing (Yang, et al
In a country like China -- prone to natural and man-made disasters -- "…every nurse should have basic knowledge of and skills in disaster relief"; hence, nursing courses should be subjected to "systematic educational" programs that prepare them for "perioperative care, emergency care, community care and public health" (Yang, 222). In another article reflecting on the Wenchuan earthquake -- in the Journal of Public Health Policy -- the authors interviewed government officials in the areas hardest hit by the earthquake; those officials reported the critical roles played by not just nurses, doctors and rescue workers, but by "…the whole of society" (You, et al
This is no crisis of Capitalism, just a fork in the road that is waiting for government intervention to right it. Polanyi's thoughts may be exciting for some for it calls for the end of laissez faire ideas and asks for the government to intervene as it did in the past (Halperin, 1944)
There was always a blame game happening within the company. The workers held the management responsible for the decline in the performance and the issues that they had to face at work and on the other hand, the management believed that it was the labor union that was hindering the improvement in the financial performance of the company (Barton, 1991)
In order to gain the confidence of the employees, the company decided to adopt an open-book approach, which meant that the workers were given access to the entire data pertaining to the accounts of the company. Later on, this exercise became the norm of Ajax Minerals, since the supervisors, employees and managers started to share the data amongst themselves in order to bring about improvised strategies (Blawett, 2011)
The relations between the labor union and the management were such that the workers were always suspicious that any changes in the company would mean that there would be cut offs in their salary. The second resistance that the management had to face was that they were of the view that if the management brings out a reference to the problems on the horizon, then the labor union will consider that reference a ploy against them (Businessweek.com, 2014)
On the flip side, it can also send negative and damaging messages, particularly when there is a crisis or scandal involved. The media's ability to jump on a story as soon as it happens has forced sports organizations to develop crisis strategies that can be launched just as quickly as the media can report the news (Fink, 1986)
If the company has a morals clause, be prepared to use it. Crisis Plan in Action Recently, Oklahoma University (OU) athletic director Joe Castiglione was forced to deal with the unpleasant yet crucial aspect of collegiate athletic administration: crisis management (Forde, 2004)
The message that was eventually communicated during the fiasco was that skiing was a relatively safe sport if the skiers followed basic safety practices. Strategies for Success When it comes to athletes, the public has high expectations (Hessert, 1997)
Value of Crisis Management The value of having an effective crisis communications plan cannot be underestimated. In sports organizations, the investment in this plan by management team is usually repaid many times over when they are called upon to use it (Hoffman, 1999)
The lake's long shoreline has been a boon for real estate over the millennia but it also makes the lake singularly fragile: Destructive human activity has a very long periphery to damage the lake. The lakefront beaches of Lake Como bear signs telling people not to swim in them, although this is a caution that is often ignored (Popham, 2007)
If leaders are not familiar with rules and procedures, lines of authority, and the channels of communication during the best of times, those deficiencies will be magnified when there is a crisis taking place. Fortunately, there are strategies for crisis management, including strategies that work for technological crisis and problems with it management (Barton, 2007)
Naturally, what is required for this type of management is much different than what is required for the management of risk, where plans for what could happen are addressed but there is really nothing about which to be worried at that particular time. Crises can include technological problems, natural disasters, organizational misdeeds, man-made or terrorist disasters, workplace violence, rumors, malevolence, and confrontation (Dezenhall & Weber, 2007)
These kinds of issues generally occur because technology is becoming more complex, and when one thing goes wrong, many things can go wrong in a "chain reaction." Human error can be the cause of this reaction, but there are times when technology just fails without warning, and without anyone doing anything to cause it (Ulmer, Sellnow, & Seegar, 2006)