In the waning hours of 2009, the risk was still bad news: the Pope jostled by a faithful during the Mass of Christmas, The foiled attack on the flight Amsterdam / Detroit yesterday and the water leak on an American Airlines flight New-York/Paris that led the plane to an emergency landing.
reappear Behold what Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a philosopher of science of chance, a former trader and expert in mathematics, called the Black Swan, these improbable events that mark our lives. The unpredictability is not only the chance and perhaps we should add, in our societies, the mission of "risk-manager" that of "Managing the Unexpected."
Given these recent developments, steps are being taken to control future risk: the papal entourage said goodbye protection procedures, Barack Obama promises enhanced security measures and indignant at the special case failure to take into account the intelligence alert known but untapped could almost say a "leading indicator" unsupervised.
I can not help but make a comparison between the decisions taken following these events and the strike dabistes this month December demanding a reassessment of their risk premium. One side tries to limit the risk and the other accepts it, the more it mints.
Demand for these workers arrested me somewhat, I realized that they require the establishment of procedures to enhance their safety even higher wages to compensate them for increased vigilance in the exercise of their profession. This is not the case since the risk is clearly accepted by those employees. I could even read, following the revaluation of the risk premium, a committed journalist described the decision as "advancing social ! The risk premium has become a "social progress"! Moreover, one might wonder about the reaction of these same employees if tomorrow, by the establishment of ad hoc procedures, they are guaranteed the "zero risk" in exchange for eliminating the risk premium ... Undoubtedly this would cause conflict with a new claim as a return to an environment of risk!
My intention is nothing but provocative reading a stop July 27, 2009 the State Council for the least surprised me. The Upper House has considered a technician of the environment commissioned under water and forests, assigned to the Directorate of Research and Studies of the National Game and Wildlife, is entitled to payment the risk premium although it is not exposed in his professional practice at any risk!
A risk premium paid to an employee who is no risk!
A risk premium paid to an employee who is no risk!
we trivialize the meaning of risk?
what about the article " negotiate her starting salary in times of crisis " published in the Journal Du Net in September 2009 and issuing the following advice: "Your profile is sought? Know request a risk premium to quit your current job. " In this council, it was perhaps better to express a notion of hiring bonus or why not "golden hello"!
I recently had the opportunity to discuss the topic of risk management with the manager of a large group of industrial equipment. He told me that his organization in the very notion of risk premium was unthinkable because it was not about to risk it was an employee in exchange for a premium. He illustrated his point by telling me that once a warden located abroad had requested permission to pay a risk premium for moving a part in a sensitive country said. His first impulse was then to say that if the proposed assignment posed a risk, it had to cancel it.
I recently had the opportunity to discuss the topic of risk management with the manager of a large group of industrial equipment. He told me that his organization in the very notion of risk premium was unthinkable because it was not about to risk it was an employee in exchange for a premium. He illustrated his point by telling me that once a warden located abroad had requested permission to pay a risk premium for moving a part in a sensitive country said. His first impulse was then to say that if the proposed assignment posed a risk, it had to cancel it.
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I take this end of the year to send my best wishes for success and performance for 2010 but also to thank all those and all those who follow me on this blog that DAF recorded since it went online on 1 October 2009, 4620 visits. Thank you again and hope to see many more in 2010.
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