Capacity Building for Organizational Resilience: Integrating Standards on Risk, Disruption and Continuity in the Curriculum
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Disruption is an inevitable factor in business and society, while inability to mitigate and manage risk can cause irreparable damage to business, the economy, and our ways of life. The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened interest in standards-based strategies for risk management and crisis preparedness to enhance organizational and societal resilience. University curricula that integrate national and international standards offer students a rich skill-set for effective performance in their careers. Moving forward, we must cultivate capable professionals who understand the challenges and risks facing society, and who grasp standards and systems for strategic planning, response, and recovery to promote organizational resilience and sustainable development. This paper focuses on the effectiveness of integrating risk management and continuity standards into university curricula, based on implementation at a large private university and regional community college in the Northeastern United States. We propose and evaluate a modular approach to introduce students to specific national and international standards, and teach them to identify and apply relevant standards based on the locally driven, whole community nature of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. Education using standards-based curriculum and the competencies that result will be key to readiness for tomorrow’s graduates.
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Standards literacy, University curriculum, Emergency preparedness, Business continuity, Organizational resilience
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Greenwood, L. L., Hess, D., Abraham, Y., & Schneider, J. (2023). Capacity building for organizational resilience: Integrating standards on risk, disruption and continuity in the curriculum. International Journal on Social and Education Sciences (IJonSES), 5(2), 327-340. https://doi.org/10.46328/ijonses.508
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46328/ijonses.508
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