Understanding and Managing Risk Attitude (Paperback, 2 ed)

Contents: Foreword; Preface; Part One The Problem: Risk management status quo - efficient but not effective?; The importance of human factors in risk management. Part Two Understanding Risk Attitudes: General principles of risk attitudes; Individual risk attitudes and heuristics; Group risk attitudes and heuristics. Part Three Understanding Emotional Literacy: Emotion - definition and relevance; Emotional literacy for individuals; Emotional literacy for groups. Part Four Implementation Issues: Applying emotional literacy to risk attitudes; Final thoughts and the way ahead; Appendix: Emotional Intelligence/Literacy tools; Bibliography and further reading; Index.