Business Continuity Planning

RUNNING HEAD : BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING

Course : Business Continuity Planning

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Introduction

In most cases , natural disasters can neither be detected nor be avoided . Nevertheless , given that an organization always has chance to prepare a business continuity plan (BCP ) or a disaster management plan means that the same has a chance to pull itself out of the most disastrous situation . This is because the BCP spells out the organizational actions which should be taken in to salvage the business in times of the crisis

First and foremost , it

would be important that the internal key personnel be all summoned , and those on leave recalled . The expedience of carrying out this act is that the internal key personnel fill the slots in whose absence the business organization may absolutely not be able to function . While this will automatically demand the meeting of the departmental heads and managers , it will also be necessary for the management to summon the key players in each departmental grassroots Herein , the decision used to identify the key players is the job functions which continue to remain critical on day-to-day basis However , given that it is possible to encounter setbacks bing on ethics in summoning the top notch of the company back to work citing illness , the business may have to reconsider calling in the assistants

To the extent of the above development , those who fill these critical positions in the wake of the primary job holders being away have also to be recalled . This case...