Types of Crisis
During the crisis management process, it is important to identify types of crises in that different crises necessitate the use of different crisis management strategies. Potential crises are enormous, but crises can be clustered.
Lerbinger categorized seven types of crises
- Natural disaster
- Technological crises
- Confrontation
- Malevolence
- Organizational Misdeeds
- Workplace Violence
- Rumours
- Terrorist attacks/man-made disasters
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