...Kevin C. Desouza; Tobin Hensgen Purpose The development of virtual crisis centers for organizations should be established. This study seeks to contend that having such a center will help an organization monitor the necessary signals generated and dissipated from within and around the organization...

... Worth was fortunate that the losses were not more substantial than they were. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Disaster management Organizations Co‐operation Co‐ordination Social and behavioral research indicates that coordination is a major challenge among the individuals, groups...

...Hayim Granot Reviews the inter‐organizational co‐operation that may be required during an emergency. Looks at the diverse cultures of diffferent organizations together with legislation and bureaucratic procedures that need to be considered in order for this process to take place. Reinforces...

... organization. Offers an adaptation of an approach from anthropology and cultural theory, that supplies four distinct, exclusive and archetypal workplace structures. Each is associated with a distinct cluster of sustaining and justifying values and attitudes that are manifest as four associated patterns...

... conventions, roles and norms that prevail within disaster and emergency response organizations exercise considerable influence on staff under normal circumstances. Since their influence is unlikely to be suspended in the aftermath of a traumatic event, there exist good reasons for anticipating...

... to develop into a crisis three elements must be present: a triggering event causing significant change or having the potential to cause significant change; the perceived inability to cope with this change; and a threat to the existence of the foundation of the organization. The acute crisis stage...

...E.L. Quarantelli Summarizes, under 12 general propositions, the findings from a series of field studies by the Disaster Research Center about the operations of the local mass media in disasters in the USA. The topics covered range from the disaster planning undertaken by mass media organizations...

... past disasters and make organizational changes. Concludes that this type of disaster will continue in the 1990s in ordinary organizations which are potentially socio‐technically disaster‐prone. Although many socio‐technical disasters create significant adverse impacts on the environment and nature we...

... strategy is required‐one which underpins behaviour of opposing dimensions to the existing mainstream paradigm for management but which also harnesses beneficial aspects of the traditional paradigm. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Are crises a major problem for our organizations and their people? Is our...

... Communications Disaster management Industry Leadership Oil industry Organizations Safety This article aims to provide an insight into the activities, approach and lessons being learned by our company in preparing for and handling major incidents. The public is expecting, increasingly, that we...

...Leon M. Curtis Addresses the options for organizing safety functions within a corporate context and considers their safety and other advantages and disadvantages. This is a matter of balancing incommensurate advantages and disadvantages to achieve an approximately optimum organization. Reviews...

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