Security Management


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Security Management


HLS311 - Security Management
Homeland Security
Ed Piper, MS, BA, AA - Vita

Course Description:

This Post 911 security management course provides managers with the technical know how to effectively communicate their needs to management, ensuring they receive the necessary resources for organizational success. It examines new risk assessment models and proactive strategic planning concepts. It places emphasis on measurable metrics as applied to dealing with workplace violence, anti-terrorism and other security threats.

Objectives:
  1. Provides students with a basic understanding of risk management.
  2. Enable students to better understand the skills sets needed to be an effective security manager.
  3. Discusses the organizational challenges facing security.
  4. Analyzes the barriers that prevent successful security management.
  5. Provides students with a better understanding of strategic planning as applied towards security.
  6. Discusses the metric based approach to total asset protection.
Required Book(s) –   Online Bookstore

Rethinking Corporate Security in the Post 911 Era. Dennis Dalton, Butterworth Heinemann, 2003-4 ISBN: 0750676140

Websites or PDF Files to Visit or Read: N/A

Written Assignments:
TOTAL FOR COURSE: 100 POINTS

I will determine your final grade based on the total number of points you have accumulated at the end of the semester. I do not award letter grades for each paper or exam. Your grade will be determined as follows:

95-100 points A
90-94 points A-
85-89 points B+
80-84 points B
75-79 points B-
70-74 points C+
65-69 points C
60-64 points C-
55-59 points D
below 55 points F


STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS/ACTIVITIES:

Assignments: Read the assigned readings and email your answers to the instructor at the end of each week.

Week 1: Read Chapter One. Drawing from your experience and the ideas presented in this chapter, discuss the role of private security in the country's ongoing effort to root out terrorism, especially in areas outside the United States.

Week 2: Read Chapter Two. This chapter advocates the concept of the Chief Security Officer. Advocates liken it to that of the CIO, CFO or CAO. What do you think about this role? Is the time right for it?

Week 3: Read Chapter Three. The chapter discusses the need for a set of national standards for private security. Do you agree with this position? Are there any negative drawbacks from enforcing the standards?

Week 4: Read Chapter Four. Develop a mission and vision statement for a hospital security department.

Week 5: Read Chapter Five. Can a statistically driven staff model really work, or is it so antiseptic, that it misses the nuances of the organization and can result in allocation and deployment staffing that fails to meet the intents of security?

Week 6: Read Chapter Six. Conventional security departments have been given a considerable responsibility. Do you believe the time has come for corporate America to embrace the concept of global security and an era of total asset protection?

Week 7: Read Chapter Seven. The author makes the case for maintaining a focus on the two E’s of effectiveness and efficiency, and avoiding the trappings associated with management writers will call latest and greatest new strategy. What do you think about such an approach?

Week 8: Read Chapter Eight. The author explores six organizational giants-Deming, Peters, McGregor, Follett, Bennis and Drucker) who have provided some basic wisdom for achieving organizational success. Can you think of others? Based on your experience, is sticking to the basics better than pursuing the latest management strategy? Is true success on the combination of both?

Week 9: Read Chapter Nine. John Maxwell and Michael Useem offer us a number of ways in which we stumble as managers. Based on your experience, do these make sense? Are there others that need to be raised as well?

Week Ten: Based on Denny Dalton’s book, create a 15 slide PowerPoint presentation outlining how you will become a highly successful Post-911 Security Manager.

About Your Instructor: Ed Piper has 30 years of diversified experience in security, intelligence, law enforcement, education, training, consulting and management. He serves on the faculties of Johns Hopkins University and Norwich University.