AC412 Half Unit
Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management
This information is for the 2015/16 session.
Teacher responsible
Prof Mike Power KSW 3.12 and Dr Tommaso Palermo KSW 3.07
Availability
This course is available on the MPA in European Public and Economic Policy, MPA in International Development, MPA in Public Policy and Management, MPA in Public and Economic Policy, MPA in Public and Social Policy, MPhil/PhD in Accounting, MSc in Accounting and Finance, MSc in Economy, Risk and Society , MSc in Law and Accounting, MSc in Management, MSc in Management and Regulation of Risk, MSc in Management, Organisations and Governance, MSc in Public Management and Governance, MSc in Public Policy and Administration and MSc in Risk and Finance. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
Other students may be admitted only with the agreement, in writing, of the MSc (Accounting) Course Tutor.
Course content
This is an advanced course focusing on the organisational and institutional settings within which risk is managed.
The first five lectures deal with key issues in organisational responses to risk and uncertainty, including the impact of disasters and accidents and the growing formalisation and standardisation o