COM CO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: United States Agency For International Development, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
8 Feb 2019
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Crises: events that impact organization"s well-being (i. e. financial & reputation: you know your reputation is being reflected via news that portrays your organization in a negative light". Government: federal agencies (fema, cdc, epa, usaid, local first responders (police, fire departments, emts_ Inter-government and international agencies (un, who, world bank, etc. ) Corporations: corporations responsible for or directly involved in the disaster, corporations with operations in the affected area. Non-profit: n. p w/ directly related missions (i. e. Doctors without borders: n. p w/ on-the-ground operations in the affected area. New orleans lost 50% of its population and has still yet to fully replenish. Gov"t response was too slow for the victims not everyone had the opportunity to evacuate in time. 20,000 people; living conditions were poor// folks had to sleep where they peed. Haiti earthquake (2010) 200- 300,000 deaths & displaced over 1m people. Human-made disaster- bp oil spill (2010) 11 workers died.
