Identification, describing & prioritization of operational risk management execution obstacles in Iranian banks

In accordance with Basel Committee definition, Operational Risk is the exposure of inadequacy of the processes, people and internal systems or external events. Operational risk management is an ongoing process in the organization, although implementation of enterprise risk management depends on goal setting, planning and organizing. There are some barriers and obstacles against the efforts for operational risk management that this research firstly wants to identify, then prioritize them using a qualitative method namely Delphi method and Friedman test as a Non-parametric method respectively. If risk managers find the main obstacles that prevent the implementation of operational risk management, they could easily control them.