The Implementation of The Risk Register by The Leaders of Preuniversity Educational Organizations

Research issue: Risk management, as part of a management educational organization, is an important process which integrates identification of risks, risk assessment, developing strategies to manage it, and mitigation of risk using managerial methods, techniques and tools. The main objective of the iterative risk management process is to reduce the identified risks, associated with the activities carried out by each structure, as part of the educational entity. As an integral part of risk management, identifying risks or analyzing the future of an organization is a dynamic process that is realized by discovering all the feasible sources that can generate risks, in order to eliminate or diminish the effects that they can produce by the impact they have on achievement of the general and specific objectives set by the organization. The implementation of the risk register, at the level of the educational organizations, involves completion of all specific stages of risk management and elaboration of a document confirming the existence of a functional risk monitoring system, but also of a database with the identified risks, by the leaders of the educational organization. Methodology: The main uses for this paper are observation of the economic and educational national and international experience of the authors, questionnaire applied to teacher from pre-school and primary stages of education. The purpose of questionnaire was to identify all risks from educational organization, as well as teachers perception about the impact on the objectives in case of risk materialization, but also the causes that favor the emergence of risks. Originality: The paper is of particular importance because it describes all the stages of the iterative risk management process carried out in the educational organizations, the analysis of the questionnaires applied to the teachers, the elaboration of the risk register as well as approaches of its implementation in the educational organizations. The paper describes the different risk identification tools and techniques in the risk management process, which methods are used in the different steps in order to identify the risk, and it provides some examples for risk in educational area. Conclusion: The implementation of the risk register contributes to ensuring the quality of education, efficient use of resources, to attract new resources and to encourage teachers to gain a responsible attitude towards achieving the general and specific objectives of the educational organization by improving the complex risk management process.