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The Manager's Handbook for Corporate Security

  • 1st Edition
  • March 7, 2003
  • Gerald L. Kovacich + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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  • eBook
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Kovacich and Halibozek offer you the benefit of more than 55 years of combined experience in government and corporate security. Throughout the book, the authors use a fictional global corporation as a model to provide continual real-world challenges and solutions. New and experienced managers alike will find a wealth of information and practical advice to help you develop strategic and tactical plans and manage your daily operations.

Guard Force Management, Updated Edition

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2003
  • Lucien Canton
  • English
  • eBook
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Guard Force Management looks at the contract guard force as a business and demonstrates how current management techniques can be used to improve efficiency and increase profitability. The author takes proven management principles and applies them to the competitive security industry. This updated edition includes an entirely new chapter on preparation and response to crisis in order to maintain business continuity. The book focuses on administrative and financial functions that are frequently neglected in guard companies, and discusses planning and conducting guard operations in detail.

Effective Security Management

  • 4th Edition
  • February 24, 2003
  • Charles A. Sennewald
  • English
  • eBook
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This latest edition of Effective Security Management retains the qualities that made the previous editions a standard of the profession: a readable, comprehensive guide to the planning, staffing, and operation of the security function within an organization. All chapters are completely updated with the focus on practical methods that the reader can put to use in managing an effective security department.The Fourth Edition covers current computer applications that can help in the administrative, managerial, and supervisory aspects of the security function. In addition, two new chapters address employee management in detail. The first, Lifestyle Management for Managers, will discuss motivation at work: the how, when, where, what and why of self-motivation for the boss. The second, The Departing Employee, will discuss the exit interview and the information that can be gained in that process. Also, back by popular demand, are the author's "Jackass Management Traits," 32 humorous portrayals of negative management traits that illustrate very real problems that can undermine the effectiveness of supervisors and managers.

Security Operations Management

  • 1st Edition
  • March 16, 2001
  • Robert McCrie
  • English
  • eBook
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Security Operations Management takes concepts from business administration and criminal justice schools and incorporates them into the world of security management. It is comprehensive text focused on theoretical and research-oriented overviews of the core principles of security management. The book includes critical issues faced by real-life security practitioners and explores how they were resolved. The book is written for practitioners, students, and general managers who wish to understand and manage security operations more effectively. The book explains the difficult task of bringing order to the security department's responsibilities of protecting people, intellectual property, physical assets and opportunity. In addition, the book covers theoretical and practical management-oriented developments in the security field, including new business models and e-management strategies.

Hospital and Healthcare Security

  • 4th Edition
  • February 28, 2001
  • Tony W York + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
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Hospital and Healthcare Security, Fourth edition, is a complete resource for healthcare protection planning and programming. The book offers thorough and fully updated coverage of the primary health and security issues hospitals and healthcare agencies face including infant protection and security, animal and research laboratory security, hospital watch programs, and the relationship between hospital security and law enforcement.Written primarily for use by the healthcare protection administrator, it also serves as a reference for any hospital security officer, supervisor or administrator. This book presents a complex and diverse security focus in a readable and understandable format.

Model Security Policies, Plans and Procedures

  • 1st Edition
  • June 24, 1999
  • John Fay
  • English
  • Paperback
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Model Security Policies, Plans, and Procedures contains sample security policy, planning, and procedural documents drawn from the proven experiences of hundreds of America's most successful corporations. If your job requires you to develop or update security policies, plans, or procedures, this book will be a highly valuable resource. The samples cover the key concepts of organizational protection. Putting the samples to use, either as presented or as drafting guides, can eliminate many hours of tedious research and writing.

Risk Management for Security Professionals

  • 1st Edition
  • May 5, 1999
  • Carl Roper
  • English
  • Hardback
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This book describes the risk management methodology as a specific process, a theory, or a procedure for determining your assets, vulnerabilities, and threats and how security professionals can protect them. Risk Management for Security Professionals is a practical handbook for security managers who need to learn risk management skills. It goes beyond the physical security realm to encompass all risks to which a company may be exposed. Risk Management as presented in this book has several goals: Provides standardized common approach to risk management through a framework that effectively links security strategies and related costs to realistic threat assessment and risk levels Offers flexible yet structured framework that can be applied to the risk assessment and decision support process in support of your business or organization Increases awareness in terms of potential loss impacts, threats and vulnerabilities to organizational assets Ensures that various security recommendations are based on an integrated assessment of loss impacts, threats, vulnerabilities and resource constraints Risk management is essentially a process methodology that will provide a cost-benefit payback factor to senior management.

Public Safety and Security Administration

  • 1st Edition
  • September 10, 1998
  • P.J. Ortmeier
  • English
  • Paperback
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Public Safety and Security Administration addresses public safety and security from a holistic and visionary perspective. For the first time, safety and security organizations, as well as their administration, are brought together into an integrated work. The protection of persons and property involves many public agencies and priivate organizations. Entities from the criminal jutics system (law enforcement, courts, corrections) as well as the fire service, private security and hazardous materials all contribute to public safety and security. This book addresses these entities, as well as safety and security issues, from a holistic and visionary perspective. It addresses criminal and non-criminal safety and security concerns, provides an overview of each entity (component) of the system of public safety and security, presents an overview of the administration process involved in planning, organizing, managing and evaluating public safety and security organizations and describes collateral functions of investigations, documentation and report writing. Public safety and security organizations should not work in isolation. Rather, they should collaborate to protect persons and property. This book represents the first time all the public safety and security entities have been addressed in one text.

The Ultimate Financial Security Survey

  • 1st Edition
  • August 3, 1995
  • James L Schaub + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
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The most in-depth and comprehensive financial security survey on the market, this book will help the reader reveal vulnerabilities and identify critical areas by aiding with the time-consuming job of the security survey. 'The Ultimate Financial Security Survey', with over 1000 questions, is a time saver for the security manager. This valuable tool will save hours of typing because the questions on disk can be used and re-used to design specific security surveys.Tailor a survey for one or one hundred facilities and protect against fraud, information theft and robbery. This book has everything necessary to achieve this goal.

The Effective Security Supervision Manual

  • 1st Edition
  • September 12, 1994
  • Ralph Brislin
  • English
  • eBook
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Supervision is the cornerstone of good management. Security personnel are often promoted to supervision positions as a result of having performed successfully in their roles as a security officers. This practical manual provides new or experienced security supervisors with the essential tools and skills which will allow them to be more successful in supervising security officers and meeting the objectives of the organization.