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What is Organizational Crisis

Business Continuity Management and Resilience: Theories, Models, and Processes
A threat to the viability of the organization and it is experienced as a personally and socially threatening situation.
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Crisis Management Challenges
Elitsa Petrova (Vasil Levski National Military University, Bulgaria)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-1658-0.ch002
Abstract
The world is facing unprecedented crises and emergencies on a global scale. They are distinguished by the inclusion of new elements and characteristics in them, their extreme intensity, they are complex and complicated, and they affect many sectors of social development. Politics and diplomacy are often silent or unable to achieve the required result. Civilians, military personnel, women, children completely senselessly lose their lives for impossible and strange causes or for those that should unite and not divide people, families, society. The international community and world leaders must take immediate measures to reduce military conflicts and crises, poverty and inequality, hunger and disease, violence against women and children. This chapter examines Crisis (essence, content, views), traditional and modern forms of crises, unprecedented crises and emergencies on a global scale, and the crisis management concept framework.
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Model/Anti-Model Advocacy Responses to Hospitality Industry Sexual Harassment
Any event that threatens an organization’s reputation or credibility due to actions by employees or leadership of the organization.
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Workplace Cyberbullying and Online Harassment as an Organizational Threat: Exploring the Negative Organizational Outcomes
A sudden and unexpected organizational indicent that poses a significant threat to an organization’s operations and its financial well-being and reputation.
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Empowering School Leaders as Middle Executives in the Centralized Education System of Cyprus
An unpredictable event that disrupts the normal operations of the organization that requires an immediate response.
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