The Human Factor in Risk Management

Project Duration: 01.09.2011 to 28.02.2014

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The Integrated Safety Management department is the first to combine the potential of objectively measured biometric and chronobiological data with the requirements of risk research. By measuring heart rate variability (HRV), the department investigates whether managers assess risks based on factors such as resilience and vitality.

Department

Administration, Economics, Security, Politics

Analysing the causes of managers' decisions is part of risk analysis. A key factor influencing decisions is personal stress, which can be measured using heart rate variability. This is the ability of an organism to change the frequency of the heart rhythm. The aim of the research project is to find out whether HRV measurement is a suitable means of supporting employees or managers in crisis situations. In the end, a comprehensive risk management model is to be developed that recognises and incorporates the human factor as an important part of an organisation.

 

Research Goals

  • Leadership decisions as the cause of undesirable developments
  • Measurement of personal stress through heart rate variability (HRV)
  • Influence on risk assessment
  • Risk management model including the human factor
 

Funding Partners

Logo der M A 23 mit Wappen der Stadt Wien und Wortlaut gefördert von Stadt Wien Wirtschaft Arbeit und Statistik

Stadt Wien MA23 | Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Statistik

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