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Crisis Management

Summary

Crises management is defined as a summary of managerial activities aimed at broad problematic, beginning with risk evaluation, through planning and organizing all the way to realization and verification of all activities performed in connection with the crises situation solution.
After the subject completion, the student gains: clear idea about what is business crises and its management, enough information about the issues of business crises today and what kinds can we expect tomorrow, what does it take to manage them and also inspiration for his/her own effective steps in the field of crises management.
To achieve these targets the subject is aimed at crises with economic characteristics – from its typology, symptoms, revitalization process, and prevention principles to way of closing the business. The subject emphasizes secure business continuity, which derives from complex approach to prevention, reaction to crises situation, consequence minimization and recovery from the crises situation. It considers securing continuity as a continuous process and as a set of countermeasures, which can prevent, overcome or significantly reduce the influence of interfering factors onto smooth and undisturbed activity.

Literature

BRANT, Barb. Change Management that Sticks: A Practical, People-centred Approach, for High Buy-in, and Meaningful Results. Auckland: Barb Grant, 2023. SBN 978-1991185709
COX EDMONDSON, Vickie. The Thinking Strategist: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Management to Identify, Explore and Solve Problems. 2nd ed. Bingley: Emerald, 2022. ISBN 978-1803825625 .
MOHANAN, Brendan. Strategic Corporate Crisis Management. London: Routledge, 2022. ISBN 978-1032107370.

Advised literature

CAMPBELL, Harvey R; RATTRAY, Sandy a Van HERMERT, Otto. Strategic Risk Management: Designing Portfolios and Managing Risk. London: Wiley, 2021. ISBN‎ 978-1-119-77391-7.
GILLESPIE, Andrew. Economics for Business. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-019-878-603-0 .
HENRY, Anthony, E. Understanding Strategic Management. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. ISBN 978-019-885-983-3 .


Language of instruction angličtina, angličtina, angličtina
Code 115-0590
Abbreviation CRMAN
Course title Crisis Management
Coordinating department Department of Management
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Marie Mikušová, Ph.D.