Description
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- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 A Need for More Crisis Management Knowledge
- Crisis Management Defined
- Disaster Defined
- Public Health Crisis Defined
- Organizational Crisis Defined
- Crisis Management
- The Initial Crisis Management Framework
- Why a Life Cycle Approach to Crisis Management?
- Outline of the Three-Stage Approach
- Precrisis
- Crisis Event
- Postcrisis
- A More Advanced View: The Regenerative Model of Crisis
- Importance of Crisis Management
- Value of Social Evaluations
- Stakeholder Activism
- Digital Naturals
- Broader View of Crises
- Negligent Failure to Plan
- Employer Duty of Care
- Chapter Summary
- Discussion Questions
- 2 Risk as the Foundation for Crisis Management and Crisis Communication
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Risk in the Organizational Context
- Stakeholders and Risk
- Issues Management
- Reputational Risk
- Chapter Summary
- Discussion Questions
- 3 The Crisis Mitigation Process: Building Crisis-Resistant and Resilient Organizations
- Thinking About Risk Mitigation
- Known and Unknown Risks
- AI and Risk Management
- Paracrisis: Unique Risk Mitigation
- Boyd’s OODA Loop: A Crisis Mitigation Process
- Application of the Boyd OODA Loop: Observe
- External
- Internal
- Running Example: Pampers
- Application of the Boyd OODA Loop: Orient
- Orient: Collect the Information
- Running Example: Pampers
- Orient: Analyze the Information
- Summary
- Running Example: Pampers
- Application of the Boyd OODA Loop: Decide and Act
- Decide: Make Choices
- Running Example: Pampers
- Act: Take Preventive Action
- Running Example: Pampers
- Chapter Summary
- Discussion Questions
- 4 Crisis Preparing: Part I
- Diagnosing Crisis Threats: The Start of Preparing
- Risk as Foundation for Crisis Management and Communication
- Assessing Crisis Types
- Selecting a Crisis Management Team
- Functional Areas
- Interpersonal (Political) Skills
- Task Analysis
- Group Decision-Making
- Working as a Team
- Enacting the Crisis Communication Plan
- Listening
- Curiosity
- Implications for Crisis Management Team Selection
- Training a Crisis Management Team
- Applications for Training
- Improvisation’s Relationship to Crisis Management Team Training
- Resilience: Training Beyond the Crisis Team
- Resilience Training for Employees
- Resilience Training for the Community
- Special Considerations
- Selecting and Training a Spokesperson
- The Spokesperson’s Role
- Media-Specific Tasks of the Spokesperson
- Appearing Pleasant on Camera
- Answering Questions Effectively
- Presenting Crisis Information Clearly
- Handling Difficult Questions
- Spokespersons in a Digital World
- Chapter Summary
- Discussion Questions
- 5 Crisis Preparing: Part II
- Developing a Crisis Communication Plan
- Value
- Components
- Beyond the Crisis Communication Plan
- Crisis Appendix
- The CCP Alone Is Not Enough
- Other Related Plans
- Reviewing the Crisis Communication System
- Mass Notification System
- Crisis Control Center
- Social Intranet: Internal Digital Platforms
- Stakeholder Preparation
- Chapter Summary
- Discussion Questions
- 6 Recognizing Crises
- Selling the Crisis
- Crisis Framing: A Symbolic Response to Crises
- Crisis Dimensions
- Expertise of Top Management
- Persuasiveness of the Presentation
- Organizing the Persuasive Effort
- Resistance to Crises
- Crises and Information Needs
- Crises as Information Processing and Knowledge Management
- What You Need to Know
- Information Gathering
- Information Processing: The Known
- Information Processing Problems
- Serial Reproduction Errors
- The MUM Effect
- Message Overload
- Information Acquisition Bias
- Group Decision-Making Errors
- Summary
- Information-Processing Mechanisms
- Structural Elements
- Procedural Elements
- Training
- Chapter Summary
- Discussion Questions
- 7 Crisis Responding
- Tactical Considerations: Form of the Crisis Response
- Responding Quickly
- Speaking With One Voice: Consistency
- Transparency: The New Openness
- A Strategic Focus: Crisis Communication as Strategic Communication
- The Target Audiences for Crisis Response Strategies
- Objectives: What Crisis Communication Hopes to Accomplish
- Communication Channels and Platforms for Crisis Communication
- The Sources for Crisis Communication
- How It All Comes Together
- Crisis Response Strategies: Adjusting and Instructing Information
- Instructing Information: Physical Harm
- Adjusting Information: Psychological Well-Being
- Pairing Instructing and Adjusting Information
- Crisis Response Strategies: Reputation Management Strategies
- Message Design: From Strategy to Tactics
- Tone of Voice
- Emotion in Messages
- Storytelling
- Transparency
- Accommodation Variations
- Message Design Summary
- Organizing the Messages
- Contextual Factors: Evaluating Reputational Threats
- Evaluating Crisis Threats
- Severity
- Offensiveness
- Contingency Theory
- SCCT
- Takeaway
- Specialized Audiences and Multiple Voices
- Crisis Engagement
- Chapter Summary
- Discussion Questions
- 8 Postcrisis Concerns and Epilogue
- Continuing the Crisis Performance
- Continuity of Actions
- Memorials and Shrines
- The Big Picture
- Crisis Communication Evaluation and Refinement
- Crisis Management Performance Evaluation
- Data Collection
- Organizing and Analyzing the Crisis Management Performance Data
- Impact Evaluation
- Specific Measures: Assessing Objectives
- General Measures
- Knowledge Management: Organizational Memory and Learning
- Organizational Memory
- Organizational Learning
- Learning Beyond the Organization
- Knowledge Management: Connecting the Pieces
- Epilogue
- Musings: Taking an Evidence-Based Approach Seriously
- Musings: Simplicity, Complexity, and Effectiveness
- Musings: Time and Crises
- Threads
- Chapter Summary
- Discussion Questions
- Appendix: Possible Case Studies
- References
- Index
- About the Author




