Organizational Risk Management Best Practices

How do organizational risk management identify and manage risk during an international emergency, such as the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic?

Leadership must find a means to keep “business as usual” going and employees working when in a completely unique and alien setting under the circumstances affecting innumerable firms.

And senior executives must recognize the relevance of risk at the corporate, and strategic level, as well as how when risks become concerns, they can threaten the organization’s strategic objectives, if not its very existence.

To protect the enterprise, risk management must be a concept, regardless of the size of the organization. As a result, the Management of Risk (M_o_R) best practice guidelines are based on principles and are intended to address risk as a strategic management discipline.

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Managing risk at a time of COVID-19

Right now, in the present pandemic, risk management begins with individual behavior: following government instructions to prevent becoming ill, spreading the virus, and causing additional fatalities.

Organizations are also confronted with new dangers, such as closing down operational sites and requiring employees to work virtually.

To understand the risks and how to minimize them, leaders should create a risk register, which is essentially a risk documentation tool that is designed to “capture unknown events that would damage one or more business objectives.” This should include identifying and prioritizing risks such as:

• Risk description
• The probability of the risk occurring
• Impact on one or more business objectives
• The proximity of the risk
• Risk mitigation
• Risk owner

For example, the risk register could include the following information:

• Staff who do not follow social distancing regulations risk becoming ill with the virus and putting their own lives in danger.
• Employees cannot work remotely if the organization does not give proper IT support.
• Employees who are not accustomed to working from home may experience many distractions that impair their performance and quality of work.

Organizations must mitigate many risks that have been recognized in the current climate:

• Promoting social wellbeing
  Organizing online meetings or one-on-one talks with line managers, or simply calling team members to ensure they’re okay, are important tasks to provide a business takes after its workers in uncertain times.
• Facilitating online working users must be patient in an uncommon situation, but enterprises must ensure that their IT systems can handle the volume of people signing on remotely.
• Communicating It is important to have a clear moment each day or a weekly update when senior management knows exactly what they need to tell their employees/stakeholders and communicate that information while ensuring it is both relevant and current.

“Why are we doing all this risk stuff?” is a question that is occasionally voiced about risk management. Could it never happen? ”

Nobody can think about the future, which is precisely the goal of risk management. If risks become issues and enterprises are unprepared, they will pay the price, not just in dollars and dollars, but also in brand reputation.

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