Emergency Management Exercises: From Response to Recovery Special
Exercises are a mainstay in the field of emergency management and business continuity planning. Although many companies conduct exercises, and the organizers may be emergency response subject matter experts, they do not excel in the discipline of designing and conducting the actual exercise – which means they simply don’t get the best results out of their effort. More...
NEW BOOK! The Cost of Emotions in the Workplace: Bottom Line Value of Emotional Continuity Management
Dr. Vali Hawkins Mitchell, a leading authority in the growing field of Emotional Continuity Management, makes a compelling business case that human emotions have a calculable, direct impact on the fiscal bottom line, and gives you powerful, practical tools to manage those costs. More...
NEW BOOK! Lukaszewski on Crisis Communication: What Your CEO Needs to Know about Reputation Risks and Crisis Management, by Jim Lukaszewski
A Global Grand Master and Pioneer – Who Helped Shape the Modern Discipline of Crisis Communication – Has Distilled a Career’s Worth of Knowledge and Practical Advice… to tell your CEO and advisers what they must do to preserve, protect, defend, and recover their brands, reputations, even careers. More...
Facility Emergency Management DVD-based training
Facility Emergency Management is a brand new DVD-based Training Program PLUS a resource CD-ROM intended to help small and medium size organizations create facility action plans and institute emergency procedures in order to protect workers, customers, visitors and the nearby community from the effects of an incident, whether it begins inside or outside the facility. More...
NEW! Easy-to-Use Template for Comprehensive Business Continuity Management to Enhance Your Organization's Resilience
Easy-to-use, comprehensive, expert, step-by-step instructions and templates – just what you’re looking for if you need a clear, actionable Business Continuity Plan More...
NEW BOOK: Hiles on Business Continuity: Global Best Practices (Third Edition) by Thought Leader Andrew Hiles.
Confidently create your BCP from scratch – or improve the one you have – aided by Hiles’ wide-ranging perspective, including case studies, global standards, and hard-won insights into what works and why. More...
Business Survival ™ News Global Disaster AlertA volcanic ash cloud, street riots and a devastating tsunami are all recent events that show how important it is to plan for a crisis. People Management looks at the role of HR in business continuity planning.
Continue reading Business Continuity: tales of the unexpected
Recent business disruptions have affected organizations worldwide, with many finding themselves unprepared for the resulting impact on the workforce. While most businesses have continuity plans in place, many don’t address a company’s most precious assets: its employees.
In this paper, the authors have identified key areas for organizations to consider as they prepare themselves to handle the human side of business disruptions.
Tags: employees, human capital management, human resources, workforce
An event that disrupts your business, no matter how limited or broad in scope, can undermine your ability to remain competitive—and maybe even to survive. But while disaster recovery planning for your facilities and technology is critical to your business continuity, you also need to fully consider the impact of a disruption on your most valuable asset: your employees.
For Tulane University, an enterprise content management system and move to paperless records was just one initiative to get closer attention as the school rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina. As the fourth anniversary of the disaster nears, SearchCIO-Midmarket’s Linda Tucci spoke with Tulane’s director of administrative services, Michael Britt, on other aspects of the disaster recovery effort and the disaster recovery program now in place.
Continue reading Covering the people side of a disaster recovery program
Tags: human resources, people issues
The Business Continuity Institute has released the results of a survey which looked at the role of human resource departments in Business Continuity Management.
This new survey is from the Business Continuity Institute Partnership.
See The Role of HR in Business Continuity Management by Lee Glendon of the Business Continuity Institute.
Tags: Business Continuity, hr, human resources, role, survey
In one of the security print and online publications I read each month, I recently came across a story that stated, re: a survey of companies, that “…more than half of respondents noted that the background investigation process in their company is managed by Human Resources and the data is not available to security..”
Continue reading Worth Repeating: Employee Security Screening
Tags: emplyees, hiring, human resources, interviews, privacy, privacy concerns, security, security department, termination, termination interview
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