Description
Book SynopsisPublic Sector Leadership in Assessing and Addressing Risk explores risk management in practice, taking a specific focus on the identification of risks in the European public sector while contextualising its Eurocentric analysis within a global setting.
The volume lays important groundwork for understanding the main philosophical premises of risk management. Navigating the text's philosophical underpinnings such as 'Risk Management is a misnomer', the editors provide deep insight into global, strategic, and operational risk management that will prove invaluable for any practitioner.
Providing high quality academic research, ESFIRM provides a platform for authors to explore, analyse and discuss current and new financial models and theories, and engage with innovative research on an international scale.
Table of ContentsSection One: Context
Chapter 1. Our Complex World; Peter C. Young and Simon Grima
Chapter 2. The Public Sector Environment; Peter C. Young
Chapter 3. History and Current Context; Peter C. Young
Chapter 4. Public Organisation Risk Management; Peter C. Young
Section Two: Assessment and Analysis
Chapter 5. Assessment and Analysis I; Peter C. Young
Chapter 6. Assessment and Analysis II; Peter C. Young
Chapter 7. Assessment and Analysis III; Peter C. Young
Section Three: Tools, Applications, Responses
Chapter 8. Methods, Tools, And Techniques: Adaptive Response Measures; Peter C. Young
Chapter 9. Risk Financing; Peter C. Young
Chapter 10. Insurance and Alternatives; Peter C. Young
Section Four: Leading on and Managing in an Uncertain World
Chapter 11. Making Decisions; Peter C. Young and Rebecca Dalli Gonzi
Chapter 12. Making Risk Management Work; Peter C. Young
