Managing security overseas
Subtitle: protecting employees and assets in volatile regions
By: Scott Alan Ast.
Publisher: CRC Press; Auerbach Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781439804674
Subjects: Corporations, American -- Foreign countries -- Security measures; International business enterprises -- Security measures; Corporations, American -- Employees -- Protection; Americans -- Employment -- Foreign countries. -- Protection; Business travel -- Safety measures
Notes: "A CRC title."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Challenges to security management in companies with global and high-risk operations; title: Travel tracking and intelligence issues : it's 3:00 a.m.,-do you know where you expats are?; title: Risk assessment methodologies : the 5:00 p.m. Friday telephone call-"We've got a project kicking off Monday in Colombia"; title: Protecting people who don't believe they need to be protected : I would prefer to go "low profile"; title: Security, crisis management, and evacuation planning : the 2:00 a.m. Friday telephone call-"The missiles are flying all around us!"; title: Crisis management do's and don'ts-pushing the crisis button; title: Protecting people and assets around the world : from green acres to the green zone; title: Pre-deployment and security awareness training : "Tell me everything I need to know about this country in about 15 minutes"; title: Establishing and maintaining contact and coordination with local, regional and international authorities : "We need a favor, we have people in your country that we need evacuated-now!"; title: Benchmarking international crisis and security management : "Give me one good reason why our company needs to do this"; title: Maximizing your security and crisis management efficiency-how to be all things to all people, and keeping it real.