Managing Risk in Organizations: A Guide for Managers

J. Davidson Frame0787965189, 9780787965181, 9780787972646

This guide examines the risks routinely encountered in business, offers prescriptions to assess the effects of various risks, and details strategies to cope with risks. Illustrating major principles with case studies, the book outlines a systematic risk management process. Individual chapters address the limitation of risk management, the identification of risk, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis, the role of probability and statistics, planning, monitoring and controlling risk, and various types of risk. Frame is affiliated with the University of Management and Technology.

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Table of contents :
Managing Risk
in Organizations
A Guide for Managers……Page 7
Copyright……Page 8
Contents……Page 11
Preface……Page 13
About the Author……Page 21
1 The Big Picture……Page 25
2 Practical Limitations of Risk Management……Page 41
3 Organizing to Deal with Risk……Page 56
4 Identifying Risk……Page 73
5 Assessing Impacts of Risk Events—
Qualitative Impact Analysis……Page 92
6 Assessing Impacts of Risk Events—
Quantitative Analysis……Page 107
7 Assessing the Impacts of Risk Events:
The Role of Probability and Statistics……Page 128
8 Planning to Handle Risk……Page 158
9 Monitoring and Controlling Risk……Page 174
10 Business Risk……Page 201
11 Operational Risks……Page 228
12 Project Risk……Page 251
13 Conclusions……Page 272
References……Page 279
Index……Page 283