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An appraisal of business continuity plan by facilities managers in nigeria

 

Table Of Contents


  • Title page – – – – – – – – – – i Declaration – – – – – – – – – – ii Approval – – – – – – – – – – iii Acknowledgement – – – – – – – – – iv Abstract – – – – – – – – – – v Table of Contents – – – – – – – – – vi List of Tables – – – – – – – – – – viii List of Figures – – – – – – – – – – ix

Chapter ONE

INTRODUCTION

  • 1.1Background of the Study – – – – – – – 1
  • 1.2Problem Statement – – – – – – – – 2
  • 1.3Justification of the Study – – – – – – – 2
  • 1.4Aim and Objectives – – – – – – – – 3
  • 1.5Methodology – – – – – – – – – 3
  • 1.6Scope And Limitations – – – – – – – 4

Chapter TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

  • 2.1Overview of Business Continuity Plan – – – – – 6
  • 2.2Business Continuity Impact Analysis – – – – – – 15
  • 2.3The Key Players (Personnel) in charge of Implementing BCP – – 30
  • 2.4Business Continuity Planning Committee/Working Group – – – 32
  • 2.5Areas and Organisations that Prepare and Implement BCP – – – 33
  • 2.6Various Views, Definitions and Descriptions of BCP – – – 34
  • 2.7Key Steps of Business Continuity Planning in Summary – – – 49

Chapter THREE

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

  • 3.1Preamble – – – – – – – – – 51
  • 3.2Sampling Size and Sampling Technique – – – – – 51
  • 3.3Description of Data and Data Collection – – – – – 52
  • 3.4Method of Data Presentation – – – – – – – 52
  • 3.5Method of Data Analysis – – – – – – – 53

Chapter FOUR

DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS

  • ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
  • 4.1Preamble – – – – – – – – – 54
  • 4.2Data Presentation and Analysis – – – – – – 54
  • 4.3Discussion of Result – – – – – – – – 36

Chapter FIVE

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

  • AND RECOMMENDATIONS
  • 5.1Summary – – – – – – – – – 69
  • 5.1Conclusion – – – – – – – – – 70
  • 5.2Recommendations – – – – – – – – 71 References – – – – – – – – – – 73 Appendix I (Letter of Introduction)- – – – – – – – 75 Appendix II (Questionnaire) – – – – – – – – 76 Appendix III (List of Facilities Management Firms) – – – – – 81LIST OF TABLES Table 4.1: Distribution of Questionnaires – – – – – 54 Table 4.2: Profession of Respondents – – – – – – 54 Table 4.3: Distribution of Respondents based on experience – – – 55 Table 4.4: Educational Qualification of Respondents – – – – 55 Table 4.5: Professional Qualification of Respondents – – – – 56 Table 4.6: Designation of Respondents – – – – – – 56 Table 4.7: Respondents’ Opinion of BCP – – – – – 57 Table 4.8: Response on areas where BCP is used in Managing Facilities – 59 Table 4.9: Respondent opinion on how often BCP is used in managing facilities 60 Table 4.10: Respondent Opinion on the Problems militating against the effective use of BCP in Managing Facilities – – – – – 42 Table 4.11: Respondent opinion on the impact of effective management of facilities 64 Table 4.12: Respondents opinion on why BCP is prepared – – – 64 Table 4.13: Respondents’ opinion on the need for management of facilities in Nigeria 65 Table 4.14: Respondents’ Perception on how BCP can promote effective Management of Facilities in Nigeria – – – 66LIST OF FIGURES Fig. 2.1: Business Continuity Planning Lifecycle – – – – 29 Fig. 2.2: Business Continuity Organisation – – – – – 31 Fig. 2.3: Business Continuity Organisation (Execution) – – – 32

Thesis Abstract

Happenings all over the world have shown that no business facility is devoid of disaster. It is in the light of the above that good facilities management practice, demands a proactive approach to such problems by preparing business continuity plan (BCP). This research project is undertaken to appraise the plans prepared by the facilities management firms in Nigeria as fall back measure in case of any disruption in organizations business procedures. Field survey was undertaken with structured questionnaire and oral interviews with stakeholders as the instruments of research. Purposive sampling was adopted in the interview. Seventy questionnaires were distributed out of which forty three were completed and returned, giving 61.4% response. Results showed that although facilities managers in Nigeria are well aware of the risk portfolio of their organizations, but adequate measures are not put in its proper place to prevent and prepare for any eventuality. For example, respondents opinion on how often BCP is being used in managing facilities shows that 65.1% do not use it often, 69.8% agreed that BCP is based on demand by client/organization. The outcome of the result of the study showed that even if BCP is in use, it is not proactive, also refusal of government and clients to request for BCP contributed to the lack of preparation of plan. It was recommended that government should make it mandatory for all organizations to request facilities managers to prepare BCP to guide and prepare for any eventuality in the form of disasters and their position as part of their financial statement. Professional bodies and associations affiliated to disaster management, should assist organizations by organizing workshops, trainings, awareness campaigns for personnel of such organizations.

Thesis Overview

<p> </p><div><p>INTRODUCTION<br>1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY</p><p>While governments, not-for-profit institutions, and non-governmental organisations also deliver critical services, private organisations must continuously deliver products and services to satisfy shareholders and to survive. Although they differ in goals and functions, business continuity planning (BCP) can be applied by all governments.<br>Elliot et al (1999) defines business continuity planning as identifying an organisation’s exposure to internal and external threats and synthesizes hard and soft assets to provide effective prevention and recovery for the organisation, while maintaining competitive advantage and value system integrity.<br>There is much misunderstanding of business continuity management (BCM) and as yet no commonly practiced methodology for the assessment of an organisation in this regard (Honour 2001). Elliot et al (1999) noted that there is no structured implementation of capabilities to directly address the risks presented to us in the modern world. These newly emphasized risks in partnership with the inherent vulnerabilities resulting from the lack of a structured approach to BCM calls for a more robust and measurable means of protecting our continuity management that is continuity assurance.<br>As the name implies, continuity assurance is concerned with actively planning to avert the threat or reduce from the act, though this recovery is implicit in the approach detailed in this work.<br><strong>1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT</strong><br>Management of facilities in developing countries like Nigeria is replete with a lot of problems. Prominent among them is the disruption of business operations, delays, ineffective or poor quality service. This is due to lack of clear understanding of those organisations risk profile or portfolio and absence of proactive measures that will ensure the continuation of critical business operations. As a result of the aforementioned, this affects the organisations in many ways, e.g. service provision is poor or substandard, profit maximization is seriously affected and the reputation of the organisation is equally affected, etc.<br><strong>1.3 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY</strong><br>Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity is one out of the eleven (11) core competencies in the management of facilities. This needs a holistic study of the core competencies to see ways and means for effective facilities management. Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is suppose to be properly put in place for any business to strife, be it small, medium or big.<br>It is in the light of the above that a critical look at plans that are supposed to be put in place by FM for business to continue and also to mitigate any negative effect of any disaster on the organisation.<br>It is an acknowledged fact that one of the important and necessary conduction for smooth successful and effective management of any facility devoid of any interruption that may have far reaching impact on the organization is the putting in place proactive measure to ensure the continuation of critical activities considering the facilities management practice in Nigeria (being at the development stage) a feedback system is needed or information is needed on how this important activities were undertaken especially the approach adopted, (1) quality of the plan, (2) how they are implemented and (3) problems relating to the implementation and above all the quality of human resource who prepares and implement (facilities management) this will enable the facilities management practice to benefit from such results.<br><strong>1.4 AIM AND OBJECTIVES<br>1.4.1 Aim</strong><br>The aim of this project is to evaluate the business continuity plans prepared by facilities manager in Nigeria with a view to providing guidelines and procedures for an orderly and timely business continuance.<br><strong>1.4.2 Objectives</strong><br>a) To study how BCP is used in the management of facilities in Nigeria.<br>b) To determine the factors affecting the effective use of BCP in management of facilities by comparing (a) above.<br>c) To assess the perception of stakeholders/facilities managers on how BCP can promote effective management of facilities.<br><strong>1.5 METHODOLOGY</strong><br>The methods used could be summarized under the following sub-headings:<br><strong>1.5.1 Literature Review</strong><br>Review of related literature on the subject using magazines, journals, conference proceedings, internet, interviews, etc. This was done in order to articulate existing knowledge on principles, procedures and practice of undertaking business continuity planning in facilities management.<br>Request Complete Work Here</p></div><h3></h3><br> <br><p></p>

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