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Human Behavior and Crises Management 1
Human Behavior and Crises Management 1
Crisis Management - is the process by which an organization deals with a major event that threatens
to harm the organization or the general public.
Crisis - is any event that is expected to lead to an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an
individual, group, community or society.
Risk Management - involves assessing potential threats and finding the best ways to avoid those
threats.
Crisis Management - dealing with threats after they have occurred.Crises Management is
occasionally referred as incident management.
Crisis Negotiation - is a technique for law enforcement to communicate with people who are
threatening violence including barricaded subject, hostage taker, stalkers, threats, workplace violence
or person threatening suicide.
Forensic Psychology - forensic discipline that evaluates behavioral patterns and how they relate to
crime.
Types of Crises
1. Natural Disaster
2. Technological Crises
3. Confrontation
4. Malevolence
5. Organizational Misdeeds
6. Work place violence
7. Rumors
8. Terrorist attacks/Man made disasters
Crises of malevolence - opponents or miscreants individuals use criminal means or other extreme
tactics for the purpose of expressing hostility or anger toward a company or country with aim of
destabilizing or destroying it. ex. product tampering, kidnapping, terrorism, espionage.
Crises of Organizational Deeds - occurs when management takes actions it knows will harm
stakeholders without adequate precaution.
Human Behavior - refers to the range of behaviors exhibited by humans and which are influenced
by culture, attitudes, emotions, values, ethics, authority, rapport, hypnosis, persuasion, coercion and
genetics.
Mental Illness/Mental Disorder - a health conditions that changes a persons thinking, feelings or
behavior and that causes the person distress and difficulty in functioning.
Schizophrenia - a long term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between
thought, emotion and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and
feelings,withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion and a sense
of mental fragmentation.
Autism - a mental condition present from early childhood characterized by great difficulty in
communicating and forming relationship with other people and in using language and abstract
concepts.
Hypnosis - the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently losses the power of
voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestions or directions.
Stalking - is a term used to refer to unwanted and obsessive attention by an individual or group to
another person.