What is Behavioral Risk Management?
Behavioral risk management is the process of analyzing and identifying workplace behavioral issues and ensuring that the potential for damage from risk is minimized.
Behavioral risk management definition
Behavioral risk management is the process of analyzing and identifying workplace behavioral issues and ensuring that the potential for damage from risk is minimized.
Workplace behavioral issues include individual risks such as behaviors of employees and directors, and organisational behavior which is a collective behavior taken by the organisation.
Importance of behavioral risk management
Workplace can be affected by many risky behaviors and conditions such as stress, conflicts, violence, substance abuse, work overload, work insecurity, organizational changes etc.
They can all lead to poor communication, lack of motivation, decrease in the quality of work, absenteeism which in the end costs employers and can taint the company’s reputation.
Main steps in behavioral risk management process:
1. Identifying the risks in the organizations
2. Monitoring the processes and services that affect those risks
3. Taking precautionary action to ensure company's well being