CRISIS MANAGEMENT

Crisis Management for KBR

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “Crisis Management” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Crisis Management” and its relation with “organization's corporate social responsibility”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Crisis Management” and tries to gauge its effect on “organizational progression”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for “Crisis Management” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Crisis Management” on “environmental responsibility”.

Table of Contents

Abstract2

Crisis Management for KBR4

Background of the organization and the crisis4

Organizational response to the crisis6

Media response8

Stakeholders' response8

Conclusions and Recommendations8

References12

Crisis Management for KBR

Background of the organization and the crisis

KBR, Inc. (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc.) is a US-based engineering and construction company, the largest non- union-linked construction companies in the United States. KBR is also the largest private military service for the U.S. Department of Defense and also worked for other states. The company describes itself as the world's largest military service ("the world's largest defense services provider"). Until the spring of 2007, KBR was a subsidiary of the U.S. oil industry group Halliburton.

Halliburton is a company multinational , founded just after the First World War (in 1919 ), the United States , in Dallas , Texas by Erle Halliburton , first in the field of construction and public works, and oil. It has become a large multinational, second service provider to the oil and gas industry in the world , present in over 70 countries with hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions and brands in the world the world. The Group employs over 50,000 people. It was especially developed in the areas of deep oil drilling and exploitation of shale gas (Kurlantzick, 2003).

Subsidiary of Halliburton's most important is Energy Services Group (ESG). It provides solutions and technical services for exploration and production of oil and natural gas. KBR and another has been the largest builder of oil fields, pipelines and refineries that the company has owned for 44 years as Halliburton intended to break with it.

The independent company Kellogg Brown & Root was created after the 1901 founded company, MW Kellogg Co. (the engineering arm of Halliburton in 1998 acquired company Dresser Industries) 1998 by Brown & Root Services merged and the entire division 2006-2007 gradually from the Group spun off was Brown & Root Services was founded in 1919 by brothers George and Herman Brown, and their brother in law Dan Root, after the death of Herman Brown, George had it in 1963 for 36.7 million U.S. dollars sold to Halliburton.

KBR is the world primarily as property developers, construction companies and as operators of refineries, oil fields, pipelines and chemical plants civilian, other infrastructure, as well as service providers working for the U.S. government. The shops are divided into four divisions Energy & Chemicals (E & C), Government, Civil Infrastructure, and Ventures groups.

The company has been the subject of several controversies related to the 2003 Iraq War and the relationship with the vice president of ...