Crisis Readiness in Public Organizations in Al-Baha Province, Saudi Arabia

Organizations are more vulnerable to crisis than ever before. A crisis can happen any time to any organizations, and none of which is immune. It usually occurs as a barrage of urgent, unexpected, and unpleasant events. Organizations that set up a crisis management plan (CMP) have greater confidence in their ability to respond effectively to such events, hence the more a crisis is prepared for, the less it will be a crisis. This paper aims to investigate public organizations in Al-Baha province, Saudi Arabia in terms of their preparedness for an organizational crisis, and to which extent. The result indicates that public organizations in Al-Baha province are partially at a high level of preparedness, suggesting that they are relatively crisis-prepared organizations.