Organization and Risk

The course introduces students to the organizational context and conditions of security risk management. While risk management has always been intrinsically related to questions of organizational survival and success, a pivotal feature of current society is the increasing pervasiveness and societal importance of organizational attempts to manage risk and security threats. The course takes up this organizational encounter with risk and focuses on issues such as organizations and their risk environment, organizational crisis, the interplay of security and operational risk, the pursuit of organizational reliability and resilience, systems and standards of risk management, as well questions of accountability and organizational performance. The course combines a theoretical approach to these issues with a case-based approach.

Throughout the course, representatives from different organizations (public and private) will present cases comprising specific challenges of security risk management, based on which the students will be asked to provide analysis and recommendations.