Tag Archives: child abuse
Enough Is Enough: It’s Time to Get Tough on Organizations That Involve Children in Any Form or Manner
Whether we are experiencing an “actual, real epidemic” of child abuse or because of the overwhelming presence of the media we are just more aware of it is beside the point. What is not beside the point is that some of the most important and highly esteemed organizations have not only engaged in serious cases of child abuse, but engaged in concerted and repeated actions to protect and/or shelter those guilty of committing abuse. Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Media + Politics, Philosophy + Systems, Sociology
Tagged abuse, BBC, Boy Scouts of America, Catholic Chruch, child abuse, media, Penn State, public trust
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Colleges and Universities Are Ill-Prepared for Crises
When my colleagues and I first started doing surveys of the crisis preparedness of major colleges and universities, we were shocked but not totally surprised to find that as poorly prepared large business organizations generally are for major crises, colleges and universities were even worse off. It is not that they are completely unprepared. Rather, the difference is between the crises that they are relatively well prepared for versus those that they barely prepared for, if at all. Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Crisis Management
Tagged child abuse, colleges, crisis management, Penn State University, universities
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Ian Mitroff | Mitroff Crisis Management 