Managing risk in organizations
Subtitle: a guide for managers
By: J. Davidson Frame
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Jossey-Bass business & management series; Jossey-Bass business & management series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780787972646
Subjects: Risk Assessment & Management; Risk management; Business; Electronic books; Insurance; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Description: Managing Risk in Organizations offers a proven framework for handling risks across all types of organizations. In this comprehensive resource, David Frame--a leading expert in risk management--examines the risks routinely encountered in business, offers prescriptions to assess the effects of various risks, and shows how to develop effective strategies to cope with risks. In addition, the book is filled with practical tools and techniques used by professional risk practitioners that can be readily applied by project managers, financial managers, and any manager or consultant who deals with risk w.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-257) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: The big picture; title: Practical limitations of risk management; title: Organizing to deal with risk; title: Identifying risk; title: Assessing impacts of risk events-qualitative impact analysis; title: Assessing impacts of risk events-quantitative analysis; title: Assessing the impacts of risk events : the role of probability and statistics; title: Planning to handle risk; title: Monitoring and controlling risk; title: Business risk; title: Operational risks; title: Project risk.