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Now that we have identified the warning signs or the lack thereof, we will continue to build upon what is to be a preliminary training safety proposal utilizing the information from the reading and other sources to give our words the ability to promote change. Remember we are practitioners of what we learn. We do not write here at Bethel for the sake of just writing, we write to make a difference in life. Week 1 we talked about a crisis experienced. Week 2 we talked about the warning signs and where they identified and/or ignored. Now, week 3 we are going to talk about ‘Individual safety versus Process Safety’. Question: How would you write a training plan for the crisis you talked about in week 2? What are the steps based on your organization’s policy? Remember, ‘You’ are the manager, executive, owner, etc. do not focus on your current manager focus on you and how you would proceed with planning. Take your time and think about this plan because you are dealing with production, profits, policy, budgets, layoffs, shareholders, stakeholders, emotions, personal views, etc.
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Crisis Management: Taking Action When Disaster Hits
Case Study: Mini- Case – Taco Bell Thanks You for Suing Them
1 In a narrative format, summarize the key facts and issues of the case.
2 Update the information in the case by researching it on the Internet. Focus your response on the specific issues in the case.
3 Discuss two successful cases of organizations that managed a crisis successfully. What steps did they take to effectively manage the crisis? What criteria did you use to measure the success of their crisis management interventions? Compare their success to Taco Bell’s. Were they more or less successful?
Case Analysis
4. Assume that you are the leader of the crisis management team (CMT) of a facility that has hazardous materials in storage for future use in manufacturing your products. Formulate a crisis management plan (CMP) that would prepare the facility and the organization for potential crises. Be specific and detailed in the development process. FOR THE USE OF SAVANT LEARNING STUDENTS AND FACULTY ONLY.
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Landscape Survey
The
Internal
Landscape
The
External
Landscape
Strategic Planning
Chapter 4: A Strategic
Approach to Crisis
Management
Chapter 2:
The Crisis
Management
Landscape
Chapter 3:
Sources of
Organizational Crises
Chapter 5:
Forming the
Crisis
Management
Team and
Writing the
Plan
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Chapter 6:
Organizational
Strategy
and Crises
Crisis Management
Chapter 7:
Crisis
Management:
Taking Action
When
Disaster Hits
Chapter 8:
Crisis
Communications
Organizational
Learning
Chapter 9:
The
Importance
of Organizational
Learning
Chapter 10:
The
Underlying
Role of Ethics
in Crisis
Management
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Opening Case, Part 3:
4 The BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
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Before the Deepwater Horizon incident in 2010,9British Petroleum (BP) was already
under scrutiny for some of its maintenance T
and safety practices. Two incidents
that had occurred only a few years earlier had gained much attention. An accident
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involving worker fatalities occurred in 2005 at a Texas City refinery. In addition, a
large amount of oil had spilled in Alaska due to the faulty maintenance of pipes in
2006. Both events would be relived again as the public demanded accountability on
the part of the oil giant.
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Previous Incidents
In 2005, a large explosion occurred at a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, killing
15 employees and injuring another 170 workers. BP was found to be in violation
of the Clean Air Act and was the first company to be prosecuted under a section of
the act that was designed to prevent injuries to employees. The company was fined
$50 million (Sawayda & Jackson, 2011).
BP acquired the Texas City refinery in 1999 from Amoco. Upon purchase, the
refinery was in need of a major overhaul; Amoco had neglected maintenance and
safety upgrades for years. Unfortunately,
R BP headquarters was in the midst of a
25 percent budget cut (Elkind, Whitford, & Burke, 2010), meaning such upgrades
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would be slow. The at-risk plant eventually had a malfunction on a cooking tank
C boiled over, sending a vapor cloud over
processing gasoline additives. The tank
the refinery. A pickup truck in the parking
lot backfired, igniting the vapor cloud
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(Elkind et al., 2010). The accident attracted a lot of negative attention for BP as the
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refinery declined further, making it vulnerable to this type of accident.
In 2006, BP pipelines leaked in D
the Prudhoe Bay region of Alaska. The leaks
were due to years of neglect in maintaining
the lines and addressing corrosion.
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The pipeline failures triggered a 200,000-gallon oil leak and resulted in another
violation of the Clean Air Act. BP was ordered to pay a total of $45 million in fines,
$12 million in criminal fines, $4 Amillion to the National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation, $4 million in criminal restitution
to the state of Alaska, and $25 million
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for violating clean air and water laws (Sawayda & Jackson, 2011).
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The Arrival of Tony Hayward
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To help address its safety problems,
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had joined the company in 1982, working as a
geologist and traveling the globe, helping the company find new sources of oil. At
E celebrity-style CEO who had led the comthe time, John Browne was a charismatic,
pany through growth by acquisitions (Elkind et al., 2010). Under Browne’s reign,
BP took on more risks but also slashed budgets, creating an atmosphere of vulner2
ability in the area of field operations. Texas City and the Alaskan oil pipe problems
4 problems for the company.
were examples of how cost cutting created
Hayward’s role was to improve safety
7and get the company in “silent running” mode, a
term used to indicate “a quiet, methodical, trouble-free operation, with no problems, no
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surprises, and high productivity” (Campbell, 2008, p. 18). Hayward went to work instiT including the implementation of a common
tuting expansive changes to improve safety,
management system with precise safety
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2010). Under his reign, Hayward has been given credit for improving the safety culture
of BP and for its operational performance (Orwall, Langley, & Herron, 2010).
Individual Safety Versus Process Safety
Despite the improvements in the safety culture at BP, critics charged that too
much emphasis was placed on ensuring individual worker safety, and not enough
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attention was devoted to process safety. Individual safety in the workplace focuses
on ensuring that employees do not commit unsafe acts, such as lifting a heavy
object incorrectly. As a result, workplace rules such as requiring employees to wear
eye protection when working around machinery are established. At BP, strict guidelines were in place that prohibited employees from carrying a cup of coffee unless
it had a lid (Elkind et al., 2011). While these kinds of rules can decrease accidents,
they do not address the hazards that can occur on a drilling rig or in a refinery such
as the one at Texas City.
Process safety is much broader and does not assume that employee error is the
primary cause for workplace accidents. Instead,
R it emphasizes the “process” that
caused the employee to commit the error in the first place. For example, poor trainI
ing of an employee—a process—can contribute to that employee’s involvement
Cblame an individual employee or
in a workplace accident. Process safety does not
equipment failure (Schreiber, 2012). Instead, ifA
equipment did fail, the process that
caused the failure would be examined. Perhaps poor maintenance—a process—
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caused failure. The process approach to safety seeks to identify root causes, at which
D can be addressed from a more
time safety issues and the prevention of accidents
holistic perspective.
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For BP, one process in particular was suspect: conducting of a negative pressure
test on a well. A correct understanding of the test results was necessary, because it
A the drill casing. However, BP
indicated whether hydrocarbons and oil were entering
had a process problem because it did not haveD
standardized procedure to conduct
the test, interpret the results, and respond if the test indicated the well had failed
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(Crooks, Pfeifer, & McNulty, 2010). The process
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well was not defined, and therefore flaws compromised
the safety of the well, the
rig, and its employees. In hindsight, we knowE
now that flammable hydrocarbons
and oil entered the drill casing, that the well was indeed compromised, and that a
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fatal incident occurred.
Opening Case Part 3 Questions
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1. Think of an example of an accident that
2occurred where you work. Assume
that you cannot assign the blame to employee error or faulty equipment.
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Instead, analyze the process that led to the accident, and identify any flaws
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that existed in the process.
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2. Was the Deepwater Horizon accident a problem associated more with cost
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cutting or with a faulty process safety culture?
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Opening Part 3 Case References
Campbell, H. (2008). Keep on running. BP, Issue 8, 16–23.
Crooks, E., Pfeifer, S., & McNulty, S. (2010, October 7). A sea change needed. Financial Times, p. 9.
Elkind, P., Whitford, D., & Burke, D. (2011, February 7). An accident waiting to happen.
Fortune, 105–132.
Mouawad, J. (2010, May 8). For BP, a history of spills and safety lapses. New York Times,
p. A22.
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Orwall, B., Langley, M. & Herron, J. (2010, July 26). Embattled BP chief to exit—American
Robert Dudley to succeed Tony Hayward as head of British oil giant. Wall Street Journal,
p. A1.
Sawayda, J., & Jackson, J. (2011). BP struggles to resolve sustainability disaster. In O. C.
Ferrell, John Fraedrich, & Linda Ferrell (Eds.), Business ethics: Ethical decision making
and cases (9th ed., pp. 342–354). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning.
Schreiber, J. (2012). Working with the CSB after a major accident. Chemical Engineering,
119(7), 49–51.
Introduction
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High-profile events such as the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Enron
C in 2005 have highlighted the importance
scandal in 2001, and Hurricane Katrina
of crisis preparedness. Most organizational
A crises do not receive as much attention
as these examples, but they still constitute major events for the firm and the comR
munity. As a result, many organizations have begun to analyze their vulnerabilities.
Dcrises is much less traumatic and costly than
Indeed, anticipating and preparing for
experiencing an unexpected calamity
, without a plan for managing it. Assuming a
company will always remain free from any type of crisis is guesswork at best. For
some organizational leaders, this may involve confronting “paradigm blindness,”
a condition “where people are unableAto see information that threatens and disconfirms their worldview” (Wheatley, 2006,
D p. 18).
There are countless stories about the lack of a plan causing severe or even irreparable damage to a firm. Interestingly,R
however, there are also examples where proper
I not only kept the crisis under control but
planning and execution of a crisis plan
also resulted in positive changes for the
E business (Borodzicz & van Haperen, 2002).
This topic of positive change is explored in depth in Chapter 9, “The Importance
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of Organizational Learning.”
Most crises are, by their very nature,
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A poorly managed crisis can severelyEdamage a firm’s reputation and profitability.
As mentioned, proactive organizations should develop crisis management responses
for managing an event should it occur. Some businesses encounter “smoldering”
crises that start internally and slowly2create problems that can be more difficult to
resolve in their later stages (Institute for Crisis Management, 2011). Other crises
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can occur externally and take the organization by surprise. Effective crisis management requires managers to develop7strategies that are integrated with the annual
corporate planning process (Preble,91997). Its effectiveness can be enhanced if
managers are able to identify a potential crisis and develop appropriate strategies
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to prevent it, or at least mitigate its effects.
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This chapter focuses on the management
practices and decision-making activities that should be implemented at the beginning, duration, and conclusion of the
crisis event. The first part of this chapter addresses the initial response actions that
are critical in the assessment of the crisis during its onset. The next part discusses
key issues relating to managing the crisis. Response strategies and mitigation of the
crisis are the major concerns here. In this stage, managers must make decisive decisions that will determine the success or failure of their crisis management efforts.
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The final part of the chapter discusses what happens after the crisis, including the
issues of recovery, reentry, and business continuity. Ultimately, the organization
must regroup and return to normal operations or its survival may be in jeopardy.
Strategies at the Beginning of a Crisis
The first step in the formal response to a crisis is to convene the crisis management
team (CMT). Recall that the organization should have a preestablished team and
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a crisis management plan (CMP). Activating the team may be as simple as one
I an employee in the organization
member calling the team together. Alternatively,
may alert a member of the CMT to the potential
Cor developing crisis at hand. Once
convened, the team begins the process of assessing the situation.
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The response to the onset of a crisis depends on the nature of the event. Some
Rsudden death of a senior executive,
crisis situations, such as an industrial accident, the
the notification of a government investigation, or
Da chemical spill, can occur quickly
and often with little or no warning. Others, such as a hostile takeover, union labor
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unrest, a consumer boycott, or corporate embezzlement, develop over a longer period
of time. The length of time managers have to react to a crisis is related to its impact
on the organization and its stakeholders. Having
Aa CMP makes it possible to think
and act expediently during the first few hours of a crisis. The CMP is a key strategic
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organizational tool responsible for initiating the crisis decision-making process by
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helping to frame the problem, determine the parties
various actions, and develop justifications for the
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Effective leadership is necessary during a crisis, both by the leader of the CMT
E This team is responsible for
and by top management (Wooten & James, 2008).
Leadership of the CMT
making and implementing decisions that help the organization resolve the crisis.
Three components of the CMT that must be present for crisis leadership to be
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successful are (1) the right leadership, (2) the structure and resources necessary to
4 (3) broad public support for the
accomplish crisis response and containment, and
organization (Cavanaugh, 2003).
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In a crisis response, CMT members should not only be knowledgeable about
their own roles on the team but also willing 9
to accept suggestions presented by
members who are experts in other areas. The T
CMT leader must have an array of
both leadership and management skills. Drawing
S from the experience of the military and the emergency services sector, Crichton, Lauche, and Flin (2005) identified
the following skills needed for the CMT leader:
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Situation assessment: Being able to identify the problem accurately
Decision making: Deciding what the CMT should do
Team coordination: Getting the CMT and affiliated stakeholders to work
together
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Communicating: Deciding how to receive and deliver relevant information
Monitoring: Keeping abreast of key developments
Delegating: Assigning tasks to individual CMT members
Prioritizing: Determining the importance of incoming information and
what should be done next
Planning: Taking part in the planning process and encouraging task completion
The CMT leader should utilize these competencies by taking charge of the situation, assessing the level of crisis seriousness, determining the level of resources
needed, and then making the decisions that will resolve the crisis (Cavanaugh,
R be in frequent communication with his
2003). Simultaneously, the leader should
or her team members to implementIthe crisis plan. Within the context of this role,
the leader must recognize and implement
C these actions while remaining visible and
available. Admiral Thad Allen of the U.S. Coast Guard led the incident command
Aspill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. During
efforts for the Deepwater Horizon oil
the crisis, his visibility and availability
R demanded that he spend half his time in
Washington, D.C., briefing members
Dof Congress, the rest of the administration,
and the media. The other half of his time was spent on board Coast Guard boats
, not visible to your people out on the boats
in the Gulf. He commented, “If you’re
who are trying to pull a boon in Barataria Bay in 110-degree heat, then you’re
not a credible leader, because you don’t understand what they’re going through”
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(Berinato, 2010, p. 78).
Dremain calm and focused on the crisis manThe leader must have the ability to
agement process while making decisions
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CMT leader may be required to make decisions without certain desired informaI
tion, because a crisis is characterized by high levels of ambiguity and stress (Baran
& Adelman, 2010). Moreover, those E
involved in the crisis are having their assumptions about reality challenged (Pearson
N & Clair, 1998). Recall that some crises take
the CMT to places they have never been before in terms of experiences, what manN
agement scholar Karl Weick (1993) labeled as “cosmology episodes.”
All crises create tension and stress.EAcute stressors for the CMT can include chaotic events, communication problems, time pressure, consequences and accountability, fear of failure, dealing with the media, and information problems including
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overload, missing, and/or ambiguous information. Maintaining control allows
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the leader to sustain an objective perspective
and see the way through complex
and confusing scenarios. Hence, the7leader must present an objective perspective
quickly and methodically for all stakeholders (Rolston & McNerney, 2003).
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One final note should be mentioned concerning the attributes of the CMT
Tsuccess. As Schoenberg (2005) noted:
leader: there is no one best profile for
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A crisis leader in one situation may be a follower in a different situation. A crisis leader in a natural disaster will need to demonstrate different skills than a
crisis leader of a product recall. A crisis leader dealing with employee sabotage
or violence faces an entirely different situation. (p. 3)
Crisis leaders should also mentor less experienced team members. In fact, it is
likely that the leader is mentoring without even knowing it (Berinato, 2010).
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Situational Assessment
One of the first tasks of the CMT is to assess the situation so that decisions
can be made to mitigate the crisis (Wilson, 2004). Situational assessment refers to
the information processing and knowledge creation aspects of crisis management
(Coombs, 2007). Endsley and Garland (2000) describe it as an awareness of knowing what is going on and then predicting how the crisis may evolve. Situational
awareness is critical to understanding the crisis and identifying its dimensions and
intensity. Unfortunately, the crisis management literature offers extensive examples
of how the initial stages of assessing the situation
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several of these.
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A tragic case involving errors in the situational assessment stage of a crisis situR
ation occurred at the 1989 Hillsborough soccer match in Sheffield, England. In this
D stands that had become thronged
incident, 97 fatalities occurred in a section of the
with people. Most of the victims were crushed to
, death (Taylor, 1990). The response
The 1989 Hillsborough Soccer Tragedy
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