Teaching disaster risk management: lessons from the Rotman School of Management

AD-minister

András Tilcsik¹ 

[1] Rotman School of Management;

关键词: risk management;    disasters;    business continuity;    business education;   

DOI  :  10.17230/ad-minister.28.6

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article describes how disaster risk management topics are taught at the Rotman School of Manage-ment at the University of Toronto and thus highlights opportunities for developing similar course modules ondisasterriskmanagementatotherinstitutions.AnundergraduateandMBAelectivecourse,titledCatastrophicFailureinOrganizations,containsfourmodulesthataredirectlyrelevanttodisasterriskmanagement. The first module focuses on the need to move from risk indifference to risk sensitivity. The second module considers the importance of business continuity and crisis management plans and ex-plores their common shortcomings. The third module uses a case study to examine the topic of prospec-tive risk management. The fourth module focuses on the vulnerability of supply chains and other complex systems to disaster risk. The article describes the details of implementing these modules and discusses opportunities for further integration of disaster risk management topics in other parts of the curriculum.

【 授权许可】

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