...Risk mitigation for business resilience White paper A comprehensive, best-practices approach to business resilience and risk mitigation. September 2007 A comprehensive, best-practices approach to business resilience and risk mitigation. Contents 2 Overview: Why traditional risk mitigation plans fail 3 Build a comprehensive strategy for risk mitigation 3 Identifying types of risk 4 Business-driven risk 4 Data-driven risk 5 Event-driven risk 5 Risk reach and range: understanding risk and its impacts 6 elating value to risk: quantifying R impact 7 Resilience frameworks: analyzing current risk environments 8 Resilience strategy: designing a blueprint for risk mitigation 9 Achieve optimum business resilience with IBM 11 Look to a market leader in business resilience 11 For more information 11 About IBM solutions for enabling IT governance and risk management Overview: Why traditional risk mitigation plans fail A successful governance and risk mitigation strategy must operate at multiple levels with broad coverage. Risk mitigation plans at many organizations fall short simply because they are not comprehensive and fail to take into account the reach and range of all the risks that they actually face. Often this occurs when organizations only focus on specific areas of risk categories, only plan for certain types of risk or don’t understand all the different areas in their organization that particular...
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...In ecology, resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbanceby resisting damage and recovering quickly. Such perturbations and disturbances can include stochastic events such as fires, flooding, windstorms, insect population explosions, and human activities such as deforestation and the introduction of exotic plant or animal species. Disturbances of sufficient magnitudeor duration can profoundly affect an ecosystem and may force an ecosystem to reach a threshold beyond which a different regime of processes and structures predominates.Human activities that adversely affect ecosystem resilience such as reduction of biodiversity, exploitation of natural resources,pollution, land-use, and anthropogenic climate change are increasingly causing regime shifts in ecosystems, often to less desirable and degraded conditions. Interdisciplinary discourse on resilience now includes consideration of the interactions of humans and ecosystems via socio-ecological systems, and the need for shift from the maximum sustainable yield paradigm to environmental management which aims to build ecological resilience through "resilience analysis, adaptive resource management, and adaptive governance". The concept of resilience in ecological systems was first introduced by the Canadian ecologist C.S. Holling in order to describe the persistence of natural systems in the face of changes in ecosystem variables due to natural or anthropogenic causes. Resilience has been...
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...Slide: 1 Presenter's Notes: Presentation regarding the university’s Disaster Recovery Plan/Enterprise Continuity Plan including: basic structures; roles within the DRP/ECP plan; areas within a company if addressed improve resilience to catastrophic events, and an employee awareness campaign. Slide 2: Presenter's notes: Presenter's notes: The presentation will cover several areas dealing with the university’s ability to prepare for an emergency or catastrophic event. The areas covered include: 1. Personnel roles within a disaster recovery and emergency continuity plan 2. Areas within the university that when properly addressed provide resilience to operational disturbances 3. Outline of a DRP/ECP training program. 4. Areas of the emergency plans that will improve by input from outside vendors. 5. The creation and execution of the plan to make employees aware of their roles in the DRP/ECP plan while confirming their understanding A1. DRP/ECP Roles Slide 3: Presenter's Notes: The responsibility of the emergency management team is to coordinate a series of teams within the university. First the perimeter security team is responsible for maintaining the physical security of the university’s property during an emergency. Second the technical support team must define operational procedures to create preparedness for an emergency; procedures to execute during an emergency situation, and procedures for catastrophic events to allow the business to function...
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...psychology differentiates people based on their feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. Psychological constructs that attract research interact in individual differences include: personality, psychopathology, cognitive abilities, social attitudes and psychological interests. The most highly researched areas in psychology are differences in personality and in intelligence (Albon, 1994). The Five Factor Model of Personality is a trait theory that was originated by several researchers and it examines five traits that can fully describe personality. (e.g. Fiske, 1949; Norman, 1963). The ‘Big Five’ are Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness and are commonly referred to as: N, E, O, A, and C. Extraversion refers to the tendency of enjoying other’s company and people who are outgoing. Neuroticism is the tendency to get upset easily, also known as emotional stability. Agreeableness is the tendency to be cooperative with others. Conscientiousness is the tendency to be motivated and achieve goals. Openness to Experience is the tendency to be open to trying new things and being adventurous (Glantz). Garmezy became interested in the concept of resilience through the study of patients with schizophrenia. Two types of schizophrenic patients at the time were “process” patients and “reactive” patients (Glantz). He found that the reactive patients were much more responsive and ended up with successful lives in the future. In order to learn more...
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...Department：Education Policy and Leadership Name of Tutor：Dr. Leung Yui Kei Topic：Fostering resilience strategies in beginning teaching Name of Student：Fan Yi Wan Wendy Student Number：11011494 Submission date：16/12/2013 Introduction Most people has an incorrect perception that teacher is a simple occupation with plenty of holidays. However teaching essentially involves many difficult and challenging work tasks. In Hong Kong, teachers especially have been put on a lot of burden that come from increasingly educational accountability and the pressure originate from student, school, parents, society and etc. This is particularly true for new teacher where they are lack of experience to deal with pressure and stress coming from the challenges of their job. This paper discusses the issue that related to the new teachers and the ways to foster resilience in beginning teaching and its implication for my future practice. This paper is divided into three major aspects. Firstly, discuss the hurdles and the problems of being new teachers in different areas which included 1) Students. 2) School, its policies and collegial interactions. 3) Parents. 4) Commodity. Secondly, explore the meaning of resilience which includes its concept, developmental assets and importance to the beginning teachers. Thirdly, deliver resilience skills for new teachers. 1. Challenges in different areas for the beginning teachers 1.1 Collaboration with students The most challenging aspect that...
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...Resilience / attachment Resilience is one sociological theory which can be used to understand the differences in the outcomes faced by care leavers (Stein, 2005). It is defined by Stein (2005) as the quality that enables some people to find fulfilment in their lives despite their disadvantaged backgrounds, the problems or adversity they may have faced or the pressures they may have experienced. It has been argued that resilience can in part be about overcoming the odds and then coping and recovering from the a particular event, however it is only relative to different risk experiences as it is likely to develop over time (Schofield, 2001). Much of the research surrounding resilience has focused on three main areas: the attributes of children and young people; their family relationships and the characteristics of their wider social environments (Stein, 2005). Within each of these areas, there has been an effort to identify the risk and protective factors and how these factors may contribute to positive outcomes. Theoretical frameworks have further advanced the development of resilience research to include the ‘protective’ and ‘risk’ factor model; ecological perspectives which take into account the influence of different cultural and social contexts and the structural organisational perspectives which views individual choice as significant as other factors to the development of resilience over time (Stein, 2005; Luthar et al., 2000). It has been suggested that there are complex...
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...Discuss the concept of resilience including the factors that contribute to resilience for health care consumers and health care professionals: Resilience is seen as an individuals way for bouncing back from hardship, going though life we encounter all sorts of obstacle that can either be good or bad, beneficial or non beneficial, resilience is someone’s way of coming back and still moving on with life after encountering something negative. Resilience is defined as one person’s ability to adapt or cope with stress and tribulation (Helen Splarn, 2012). In this essay I will taking about theorist Andrew fuller and his theory and definition of resilience and I will also be outlining the factors, both negative and positive that contribute to resilience in health care consumers, which are us, every day people and also health care professionals, those who severe in the medical field, doctors, nurses, surgeons, GP’s etc. Andrew fuller, clinical psychologist and Generation Next speaker defines resilience as “the strongest antidote we know for self harm, depression and drug abuse and is all built up on our sense of belonging” (Andrew Fuller, 2106). A person’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances at a young age shall later on influence how well they cope with schooling, social integration and future academic and work opportunities (Andrew Fuller, 2016). Andrew Fuller links the importance of keeping an optimistic point of view and thinking positively and seeing the positives of an...
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...Trauma and Resilience Addie Todal Northcentral University Trauma and Resilience “The trauma said, ‘don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.” ― Andrea Gibson, the Madness Vase This quote I found to be very poignant and to be so true, because what it is really saying is that social stigma is a big part in today’s society and mental illness is not accepted, so please keep quiet and move on silently. I added my own thoughts below that will reflect two powerful words. **Two of my favorite words are: Trauma and Resilience, for the simple reason I personally have experienced both first hand, trauma which has caused me psychological and physical health problems and resilience which I seem to have internally as some of the researchers say or argue with that resilience is an inborn characteristic—you have it or you do not, simply put, either you do or you don’t. I would say I do. ** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is to be said or maintained that resilience can be taught…. It is possible that resilience can be taught? And if it can be taught for all the right reason, then I would call it having thick skin. Having self –esteem, self-confidence, the best psychotherapist or the most awesome cognitive behavior therapist one has ever had. The group that I have chosen is trauma survivors; I will have chosen three different programs aimed at building resiliency in those groups. As...
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...Resilience Today, everyone have a strongly willing to be a successful person no matter in which area such as business, communities, study and family life. Although people can find lots of method to achieve the goal, there still are some characters should be aware and conscious cultivation if people want to better integrate with varied of fields. Resilience as a vital role to play in our life and it consist with different kinds of factors. In this essay, it will divide into three parts to discuss four important characters of resilience, including hardiness, adaptability, recovery and flexibility. Besides, in these four parts, it will also present these components how positive connect with communities, organizations, business or individual life. Hardiness Winston Churchill said that “success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” It is a good explain and describe for the word, hardiness. Maddi (2013, p. 7) states hardiness can be as a channel to resilience when face the stress and resilience always as a component to keep individual performance and health no matter in psychological or physiological when they under the pressure environment. It is clear that hardiness has strongly connection with resilience and it is an important factor in our life. White, Absher & Huggins point out hardiness can help people to deal with the transforms from circumstance with high stressful level into less-stressful life events like activity of organization and business...
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...12 4.7.1 Qualitative assessment of HVPs in 2007 flooding: 12 4.7.2 Quantitative assessment of HVPs in 2007 flooding 13 5.0 Research Design and Methodology 13 6.0 Time Scale 14 7.0 Potential problems 14 8.0 Intended Outcomes 15 9.0 Bibliography 15 Appendix A. Letter to the Office of the Chief Fire Officer. 17 1.0 Proposed Research Question: A review of the current arrangements for dealing with major flooding incidents in Dublin, and suggested improvements that enhance both organisational response capacity and community resilience for such events. 1.1 Rationale for study Recent events have exposed vulnerabilities around the Dublin Fire Brigade’s (DFB’s) ability to maintain business continuity whilst conducting major flooding incident operations. Enhanced preparedness, better public and community engagement, and specialised asset acquisition will be examined as methods of increasing organisational resilience, whilst keeping the most vulnerable people within the affected communities safer. A report by the Dublin Assistant City Manager into the recent 2011 flooding incident highlights these challenges. It states that, ‘it was not possible to respond to all requests for assistance’ (Lyons, 2011 p 10) and that ‘at the height of the emergency all available personnel and pumping fire appliances were deployed’ (ibid). A U.K government department report...
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...routine care and health evaluation, by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA), however, many pediatric cardiology centers that care for children with CHD do not routinely utilize psychosocial screening tools as part of their follow up care in this population (Lane, Millane, & Lip, 2013). Population, Issue, and Gap of Interest The question that is then posed for my area of interest is as follows, “In children with congenital heart disease, does the presence of comorbid mental health conditions (i.e. depression and/or anxiety) versus the absence of these comorbid mental health conditions, affect resilience and quality of...
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...Positive Psychology Areas of Focus in Relation to Interpersonal and Prosocial Behavior Carmen Amaya Park University 1. Abstract The concepts of Positive Psychology are explored through an intrapersonal, interpersonal, and pro-social lens using empirical research as the basis. The paper examines the history, intentions and scope of positive psychology in relationship to personal experiences and character traits that lead to personal effectiveness. The specific Areas of Focus examine the major principles of Positive Psychology and their importance with regards to; changes in emotional states, cognitive processes and experiences in juxtaposition with current research. The concepts and principles are then applied to current goals, plans and future application in respect to the workplace, environment and culture. Finally, the challenges, obstacles and unanswered questions are discussed in current applications of Positive Psychology. Keywords: Positive Psychology, resiliency, hope, theories, emotion, cognition 2. Positive Psychology Areas of Focus in Relation to Interpersonal and Pro-social Behavior Major Principles and Concepts The primary underlying assumption of positive psychology is that psychology should focus on encouraging people’s strengths rather than fixing their weaknesses (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000). Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi (2000) assert that as a new psychological paradigm, positive psychology rejects the disease...
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...FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING HUMAN RESILIENCE By Poonam Punni T00037598 Assignment No. 1 Submitted to Dr. Jean Ferri In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Psychology 399 TRU, Open Learning October 7, 2012 Part A: Short-Answer questions 1. A hypothesis is an educated guess as to explain something that you do not know of. The theory would be to test that guess and see if it actually works or is true. The theory comes from when you can prove the certain thing that takes place. 2. The independent variable in the memorization test would be the two different climate settings of hot and cold. Whereas the dependent variable would be what climate group can remember the most words off the list. 3. To examine the academic achievement of a sixth-grade student the correlation method is better because it can predict a relationship between the two variables. The experimental method could not be practiced practically due to the constraints required on conducting the examination as well as issues of ethics and practicality. 4. The issue with proclaiming that poor peer acceptance leads to delinquent behaviour is that a correlational study does not imply causation. A third variable, poor impulse control can influence both poor peer acceptance and delinquent behaviour because it makes it appear that the two variables are related to one another when the relationship...
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...Abstract Resilience is the process of adjusting enough in the process of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or major sources of stress. Resilience is a two-dimensional construct regarding adversity exposure and the positive adaptation to that adversity. Some researchers concluded that psychological development of humans is greatly buffered and that long lasting consequences of adversity are frequently associated into either organic damage or major interference in the normative protective processes ingrained in the caregiving system. Resilient individuals show social competence even in the presence of risk factors related to negative adaptation. Building and maintaining health relationships...
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...Components of Resilience Name Institution Components of Resilience Introduction Resilience has become a part of everyday life as it generally determines the functioning of the world. It is the ability of an organism, organization or systems to adapt to adverse, stressful or tragic situations. For there to be growth there needs to be resilience so in a sense resilience does not mean a positive outcome but it can also lead to a negative one. According to Browning and Johnson (2010) there is a possibility that the definition of resilience has been misunderstood creating an impression of resilience and recovery being the same. This paper aims at expounding on resilience and its components and how it applies to everyday running of life and other systems that relate to life especially in India. There are many researchers that have come up with different components of resilience depending on where it is to be applied but in this paper there are five components that have applied in a general context. The application of these components will determine if the result of resilience will be positive or negative. This paper will discuss redundancy, diversification, network connectivity, feedback and recovery and how they have been practically applied to various places to build resilience especially in India and Punjab, Pakistan. It will further discuss two other components of resilience that is strongly related to the named components. Finally it will conclude on the basis of choosing...
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