stakeholders. This paper will give an account of many of the primary errors that were committed by BP. Also, specific dates will be used as a timeline in order to emphasize BP’s lack of concern and ability to act in a legal and ethical manner during the crisis. On April 20, 2010, a Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and causing the worst environmental disaster in US history (BBC News, 2010). Although there were obvious concerns for the environment, many
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multidisciplinary working, staff motivation and retention, legal and ethical implications for nursing practice. Executive Summary: In this essay we discuss the transformational and transactional leadership styles in the management of violence and crisis situations within the clinical setting and in mental health units. We begin our discussion with studies on the need for disaster management teams and structured command system within hospitals to help ensure that patients receive proper care when
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Health Care Communication Methods HCS/320 February, 18, 2013 Health Care Communication Methods Communication is a vital process in health care industry today. As leadership it is important to demonstrate effective communication skills. The four communication skills that are critical in executing a strong action plan are as followed, Clarity, Closure, Cohesion, Command A turn of events has force our drug manufactures organization to investigate allegation of side effects from a well-known
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that will be communicating inside and outside the organization during this crisis. Potential advantages and challenges associated with communicating within the organization and with the public and private sectors during this crisis situation. First on the agenda is to acquire the use of the Fox Group. This particular organization has offered training to come in and help us deal with ?crisis communication training and media crisis training?. The Fox Group will teach us how to respond to television and
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because each person will have a different background, culture and biographical characteristics. Because of the globalization, a crisis in one country, will quickly influence other countries. As we saw with the economic crisis in 2008 – the worst recession since the Wall Street crash in ’29 – a crisis in the US very quickly spread to the rest of the world. This crisis put a huge strain on both big and small businesses all over the world; challenging managers to still keep focused and engaged. Because
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Twitter has been found to play an important role as an additional medium for many--to--many crisis communication. Emergency service... Subjects: INFORMATION sharing; RESEARCH; OPEN source software; APPLICATION program interfaces (Computer software); CRISIS communication; NATURAL disasters; SOCIAL media; TWITTER (Web resource) Improving Disaster Management. Full Text Available By: Underwood, Sarah. Communications of the ACM. Feb2010, Vol. 53 Issue 2, p18-20. 3p. 2 Color Photographs. 9/11 Commission
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Social Media In Public Relations Technology in this age is putting a spin on how an organization establishes and cultivates an ongoing mutually beneficial relationship with its publics. Social media is an evolving, ever present catalyst in the communication realm of public relations. Public Relations in its earliest years, the era of Antiquity, acknowledged the importance of public opinion, but their scope was limited to an arm's reach of their publics. Social media has become both a window and a
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Crisis Management Word Count: 2635 Renault Clio Recall – March 2007 The 1990’s saw the birth of a new supermini car which Renault believed could change the motoring industry and the way we travelled, Renault where right. The Clio to date is one of Europe’s best selling cars in history and is the only car to be voted ‘European Car of the Year’ twice. Renault where growing from strength to strength, it seemed like nothing could get in their way of taking reign
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Crisis Management Plan As with any organization, one must be able to respond quickly and resolve any situation as it occurs. This is what a crisis management plan calls for, a well deigned system of communications that meets the needs of any crisis situation, preparing for the unexpected (NTA, 2003). The crisis management plan is an integral part of Riordan’s safety preparedness as it focuses on developing procedures to deal with public perceptions, and protect the company’s image, and restore
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12. Describe which employees (or outside individuals) should be a member of an organization’s Crisis Management team at both a small company and a large organization and explain their individual roles on the team. The following individuals should be part of the Crisis Management team: Chief Executive Officer: he or she should be part of the team specially in smaller organizations. The CEO could be the team lead of the CMT. As a team Lead, he or she should assemble and lead the CMT, call CMT meetings
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