Organizational Ethics, Risk Perception, and Disaster Management

Flashcards covering core concepts from the lecture on organizational value systems, proactive versus reactive approaches, risk perception, and decentralization in disaster recovery.

Proactive Approach

A management value system and stance where an organization anticipates future needs and starts addressing them in advance, such as actively working to receive the fewest citations possible.

Reactive Approach

A management value system where an organization waits to see what problems or citations occur before taking action to address them.

Checking the Box

Treating mandatory training (such as fire safety, suicide prevention, or Title IX) merely as a minimal task to complete or game in a few minutes, rather than genuinely learning the material.

Risk Perception

The way an individual or organization decides their goals, determines how much information they want to know, chooses whom to believe, and selects between a proactive or reactive stance.

Decentralization

An organizational ethic and management structure where there are multiple sources of information and more than one decision-maker, essential for navigating disaster recovery.

AI (Artificial Intelligence)

An emerging tool that global and domestic companies are currently evaluating to determine how to treat it and how much knowledge about using it is required in their work environments.