Perspectives on Organisational Disaster Management

Contents: Preface. 1. The psychology of risk perception. 2. Human factor failure and the comparative structure of jobs. 3. Management of radiation hazards in hospitals (Plural Rationalities in a Single Institution). 4. Explaining risk perception: an empirical evaluation of cultural theory. 5. Organisational and interorganisational development of disaster. 6. Causes of planes crash and big business failure. 7. Understanding industrial crises. 8. What is organisational failure? 9. Organisational escalation and exit. 10. Challenging the orthodoxy in risk management. Index. 

"The organisations exist like organisms and they have their own life span. The organisations are born with the help of people who are engaged in some industrial or technical work. They grow and associate with a large number of people and wither away like organisms. The modern world, it seems is not ready for coping with the situation arising out of the disasters in organisations." (jacket)