Learning from Disasters: A Management Approach

✍ Scribed by Brian Toft, Simon Reynolds

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 152
Edition: 3
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This compelling book offers an important insight into the way organizations implement policies and procedures to prevent future disasters occurring. The third edition includes an introductory chapter which demonstrates on a theoretical and practical level a number of reasons why individuals and groups of people fail to learn from disasters in the first place. Based on thorough research, Learning from Disasters is essential reading for all those involved in risk management, disaster planning and security and safety management.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Risk perception and decision-making....Pages 1-11
The management of risk....Pages 12-23
Disasters as systems failures....Pages 24-37
Methodology....Pages 38-41
Generation of hindsight....Pages 42-64
General organisational learning....Pages 65-87
Specific organisational learning....Pages 88-114
Case studies....Pages 115-125
Discussion and conclusions....Pages 126-135
Back Matter....Pages 137-142

✦ Subjects

Management;Organization;Operations Management;Risk Management

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