Risk and Security Management

Session 1 – Introductory Phase

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This introductory lecture provides an overview of the course structure and introduces students to risk and security management. Key terms are also discussed as a central starting point for thinking about international risk and security management.

Exchange between students and teacher (forming a student-teacher contract, presenting learning goals and intended outcomes, discussing expectations etc.) No prerequisite nor reading required.

Session 2 – Implementation Phase

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TASK: Implementing students background into class discussion and mind map for organisation. In this seminar students will be exposed to, discuss and actively apply key concepts in the field of risk and security management. Specific instructions for this seminar task will be provided in-class. The only preparation required is to read the readings.

READINGS:

Borodzicz, E.P. (2005) Risk, Crisis and Security Management, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Chichester

Session 3 – Review Phase

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After a short introduction, this seminar will focus on how risk management ties in with war on a global scale and operational risk management, a review of what has been gone through will be discussed in class. Active participation is required.

READINGS:

Yee-Kuang Heng (2006) War as Risk Management – Strategy and conflict in an age of globalised risks, Routledge

Session 4 Preparation Phase

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In this class, small presentations will be prepared and tasks will be given to students in small groups with assigned roles, leading up to a scenario problem to be tackled in the next class. A lecture will be given on risk identification, risk measurement and risk management. Furthermore students will engage in a feedback round of each other as well as the lecturer.

READINGS:

Hanny Banowati Arimbi et al (2019) Hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control in a woodworking company, Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd [Paper]

Session 5 – Test Phase

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Testing of the acquired knowledge so far in a given scenario, each student or each team will have an assigned role within a specific real-life scenario in which the preparations are put to the test to tackle incoming problems.

READINGS:

Session 6 – Review Phase

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This lecture will deal with a review of the previous task with a self-assessment by the students, discussion of problems within the realm of reputational risk.

READING:

Schanz (2006) Reputation and Reputational Risk Management, The Geneva Papers

Session 7 – Implementation Phase

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This seminar will focus operational risk and security and how to manage it.

READINGS:

Girling (2013) Operational Risk Management, Wiley

Session 8 – Review Phase

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This lecture introduces the students to a variety of theoretical positions from which to analyze and ‘think’ about risks organisations face in an international context.

READING:

Woods (2022) Risk Management in organisations: an integrated case study approach, Routledge

Session 9 – Preparation Phase

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Preparation of upcoming scenario, preparation of roles and discussions of organisations in an international context.

READINGS:

Hardt (2014) Time to react: The efficiency of International Organizations in Crisis Response, Oxford University Press

Session 10: Test Phase

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This lecture will again go through a small scenario with each student having assigned roles. Discussion of exam topics and requirements. No reading required.

Open Book Examination

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The Open Book Examination task is worth 30% of the entire assessment.

Borodzicz, E.P. (2005) Risk, Crisis and Security Management, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Chichester

Girling (2013) Operational Risk Management, Wiley

Hanny Banowati Arimbi et al (2019) Hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control in a woodworking company, Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd [Paper]

Hardt (2014) Time to react: The efficiency of International Organizations in Crisis Response, Oxford University Press

Schanz (2006) Reputation and Reputational Risk Management, The Geneva Papers

Woods (2022) Risk Management in organisations: an integrated case study approach, Routledge

Yee-Kuang Heng (2006) War as Risk Management – Strategy and conflict in an age of globalised risks, Routledge