COURSE INFORMATION
Course Title: CRISIS ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
Code Course Type Regular Semester Theory Practice Lab Credits ECTS
PIR 336 A 6 3 0 0 3 6
Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) NA
Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours: Jubjana Vila
Second Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours: NA
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours: NA
Language: English
Compulsory/Elective: Elective
Classroom and Meeting Time: N/A
Course Description: You must deal rapidly, correctly, comprehensively, and objectively with a disaster or crisis. Yet, many organizations are so preoccupied with day-to-day operations that they fail to allocate the appropriate time and resources to crisis planning. Designed for corporate, healthcare, and nonprofit executives; crisis management professionals; advertising and public relations agency executives; and anyone charged with dealing with a crisis that threatens the image and viability of an organization, this overview provides you with the tools to identify potential vulnerabilities and to develop comprehensive protection, management, and communication plans. Examinations of actual crisis case studies demonstrate how to minimize risk; create a crisis plan; and manage, survive, and recover from a crisis.
Course Objectives: This course aims to offer to students a framework of how to analyze and manage crisis. It teaches students that crisis management is not one- time response to an unfortunate event but it is a strategic process that must start to occur before the crisis ever takes place in the life of the organization.Additionally, it introduces students the main approaches of how to manage events
COURSE OUTLINE
Week Topics
1 Introduction: What is Crisis Management?
2 Crisis Management in Political Systems
3 Crisis Management Landscape
4 Sense Making: Grasping Crisis and They Unfold
5 Crisis Management Team and Crisis Management Plan
6 Decision Making: Critical Choices and Their Implementation
7 Leadership in Crisis Management
8 Crisis Communication
9 Midterm
10 Learning From Crisis
11 Cuban Missile Crisis-Thirteen Day Movie
12 Conflict Management
13 Students Projects
14 Students Projects
Prerequisite(s):
Textbook: Boin, A., t’Hart, P. Stern, E. & Sundelius, B. (2005). The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Other References: William Rick Crandall;John A. Parnell ; John E. Spillan Crisis Management: Leading in the New Strategy Landscape Second Edition, SAGE Publications, 2014
Laboratory Work: N/A
Computer Usage: N/A
Others: No
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
1 Understanding the structure for crisis analysis and management.
2 Learning the main approaches to crisis management.
3 Ability to understand, analyse, prevent and cope with different types of crises.
4 Ability to develop crisis management strategies.
5 Application of crisis management theory on real cases.
COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES
(Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)
No Program Competencies Cont.
Bachelor in Economics (3 years) Program
1 The students are gained the ability to look at the problems of daily life from a broader perspective. They gain the needed skills not only to understand economic problems in economics but also to construct a model and defend in meaningful way.
2 They have knowledge about the microeconomics.
3 They have knowledge about the macroeconomics.
4 They have knowledge about the international economics and finance.
5 They have ability to use mathematical and statistical methods in economics.
6 They know how to use computer programs in both daily office usage and statistical data evaluations in public and private sector.
7 They have necessary economics skills that needed in private and public sector.
8 They are intended to be specialist in one of departmental fields that they choose from the list of general economics, growth and development, labor economics and labor market, environmental economics, agricultural economics, health economics, education economics and human development, political economics, international economics, monetary economics, finance economics, public finance, international financial markets and institutions, banking and central banking, international trade and banking, monetary economics and banking,
9 They have ability to utilize fundamental economic theories and tools to solve economic problems in economics.
10 They are aware of the fact that economics is a social science and they respect the social perspectives and social values of the society’s ethics.
COURSE EVALUATION METHOD
Method Quantity Percentage
Midterm Exam(s)
1
30
Presentation
1
10
Project
1
20
Final Exam
1
30
Attendance
10
Total Percent: 100%
ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)
Activities Quantity Duration(Hours) Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) 16 3 48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) 16 2 32
Mid-terms 1 18 18
Assignments
Final examination 1 20 20
Other 2 16 32
Total Work Load:
150
Total Work Load/25(h):
6
ECTS Credit of the Course:
6