Crisis Stages on the Titanic

            During the design state, the communicate crisis would have transformed the outcome for the titanic ship. This is because during the phase of its design the white star line corporation chairman J. Bruce argued that there was no necessity of providing lifeboats for all the 2200 boarding passengers (Conklin, 2012). He argued this based on the basis of the overconfidence and unheeded warnings that the boat was unsinkable. This is illustrated by the following quote ‘’Designed to be unsinkable’’ (Conklin, 2012).

            As a chairman, he, therefore, portrayed poor leadership because although the ship was reasoned as an effective adequate lifeboat for all the passengers had to be provided to overcome the potential risks. The ship was therefore designed with adequate lifeboats for less than one thousand two hundred people. In designing of products, customers must be considered in order to ensure their safety and the designing can work beyond the legal standard to overcome issues fully (Conklin, 2012).

            For instance, my end of semester exams was nearing at last year and I knew that I had not studied enough.  This was, therefore, a pre-crisis stage where the issue was suspicious but I failed to pay attention ignoring the threat in order to maintain status quo with my friends thus avoiding to face reality.

            The unfolding crisis, therefore, occurred where I had failed to communicate to myself to address the issue. I, therefore, failed to make preparations to determine how I was supposed to secure myself out of the situation. The preparation would have helped me during the stage of navigation to prepare for my final stage of the final exam. The post-crisis, therefore, occurred in the final stage which unfolded the reality of failing to adequately prepare for all the stages.  Proper evaluations of my conduct would have helped in developing a suitable analysis to the potential threats. The results of the five crisis, therefore, resulted in my failure of the exam which generated a reflection of the poor communication and overconfidence that I held prior. The results were therefore fueled by the poor procedure that I utilized in managing the five crisis stages. ‘’Suitable crisis management is effective in transforming the outcome of situations” (Pforr, C., & Hosie, 2009).

 

            Reference

Conklin, T. (2012). Pre-accident investigations. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.

Pforr, C., & Hosie, P. (2009). Crisis management in the tourism industry: Beating the odds?.       Farnham, England: Ashgate.