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Chapter 12
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Crisis | A low-probability but high-impact event that threatens the viability of an organization and is characterized by ambiguity if cause, effect, and means of resolution, as well as by a belief that decisions must be made swiftly. |
| Pre crisis planning | Form a crisis response team, develop crisis plan. |
| Leading during a crisis | The role of senior leaders, effective crisis communication, crisis resolution. |
| Adapting after a crisis | Evaluation of crisis response, lessons learned, preventing a future crisis. |
| Five-step crisis risk assessment model | 1) risk identification 2) risk assessment and ranking 3) risk reduction 4) crisis prevention 5) crisis management |
| Press Release | A printed statement that describes how an organization is responding to a crisis and who is in charge. |
| Press Kit | A package of information about a company, including names and pictures of its executives, a fact sheet, and key milestones in the company's history. |
| Learning Organization | Is skilled at crating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights. Open, adaptive, and innovation driven |
| Organizational knowledge | The tacit and explicit know-how that individuals possess about products, services, systems, and processes. Intellectual or human capital. |
| Discontinuous Change | Occurs when anticipated or expected changes bear no resemblance to the present or the past. |
| Benchmarking | A process that allows an organization to adopt the best practices of others. |
| Traditional Organization | based of the bureaucratic model that emphasizes a command-and-control structure, centralized decision making, highly formalized systems, and specialized takes. |