Crisis Topic: “Public Health Emergencies: Crisis Management During Pandemics”

• Risk analysis and potential implications
• Consideration of legal and regulatory implications
• Impact assessment on various stakeholders

Meet with your group quickly and settle on an organization and specific situation the group will research for the first week. Your goal for each assignment is to choose a high-profile crisis which has occurred within the last few months. You need to be able to reference as much fresh information as possible, so choose a large organization and an impactful crisis situation. Your group will choose a different organization/crisis to research for each research brief. Do not continue researching the same crisis you used in Week 1 or Week 2.

For background information, I suggest you research the organization and relevant industry through the SWU Library. Then move on to the specific crisis, covered in the recent business press. Heather Gray is a wonderful source for you in the SWU Library.

Let me remind you that you will be researching and writing about the business implications of the crisis you have chosen. There are many human and societal consequences from every large crisis, but don’t get distracted – stay focused on the organization you chose and its institutional and individual responses to the crisis.

Deliverable:

Have only one teammate upload the Word document in Canvas. Do not upload a PDF file.

A three-page (exclusive of title page, reference page, appendices, etc.) executive brief on the organization and specific crisis is due Sunday night at midnight ET. See a suggested template below. Assume your group has prepared this information over the last several days for presentation to senior level management. Each in brief should be APA formatted, double-spaced, with a minimum of three quality reference articles with appropriate in-text citations. The references must be appropriately cited and placed in a references page per APA requirements.

I urge you to spend quality time with your team this week. The more work you put in during the first week, the smoother the rest of the term will go for your research.