Human Resource Development for Emergency Management

Siegel, Gilbert B.

doi:10.2307/3135005

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“…Recent research illustrates considerable tension between two models that seek to explain emergent phenomena and provide policy recommendations for emergency managers. Some scholars and most practitioners advocate command and control structures for disaster events (Siegel, 1985) while many sociologists recognize the spontaneous emergence of personnel and resources after disaster (Dynes, 1981(Dynes, , 1983Neal and Phillips, 1995;Britton, 1989a, p. 14 and1991, p. 57). Others favor a more complex perspective, and suggest the need for standard operating procedures in certain circumstances and altered bureaucratic structures and processes in other situations (Schneider, 1992).…”

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Emergent phenomena and the sociology of disaster: lessons, trends and opportunities from the research literature

Drabek

McEntire

2003

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

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Research on emergent behavior has been a significant topic within disaster studies. Through a detailed review of the literature we provide background information about this particular branch of disaster sociology. Following a brief discussion of the process by which literature was selected, important trends and areas of debate are discussed. These include the validation of previous findings, an expansion of the discussion on emergent phenomena and a critique of the bureaucratic approach. We conclude with implications for the theory and practice of emergency management.

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Emergent phenomena and the sociology of disaster: lessons, trends and opportunities from the research literature

Drabek

McEntire

2003

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

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330

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“…In this paper we compare two competing emergency management approaches: the command and control model (e.g., Siegel, 1985;Schneider, 1992) and the emergent human resources model (Dynes et al, 1981;Dynes, 1983). These approaches represent opposite ends of a continuum on managing disasters.…”

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Effective Emergency Management: Reconsidering the Bureaucratic Approach

Neal

Phillips²

1995

Disasters

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The command and control approach is compared with the Emergent Human Resources Model (EHRM) approach to emergency management. Four decades of systematic research shows that a rigid, bureaucratic command and control approach to emergency management generally leads to an ineffective emergency response. Previous studies and our own research suggest that flexible, malleable, loosely coupled, organizational configurations can create a more effective disaster response.

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“…Locating and providing water and food, sheltering, locating alternative sites, and maintaining operational facilities are the main preliminary intervention (Sheu, 2007;Caunhye et al, 2012;Kovács and Spens, 2007;Zhou et al, 2011;Alexander, 2010;Lindell et al, 2006;Davison, 2014;Jalali Farahani, 2012;Pearce, 2003). Transportation, access roads, and path selection are fundamental problems in emergency logistics management (Lindell et al, 2006;Yuan and Wang, 2009;Caunhye et al, 2012;Siegel, 1985). Managing volunteers and CERT groups and scheduling and assigning roles, tasks, and personnel's duties are the other important intervention according to roles' assessments (Siegel, 1985;Lindell et al, 2006;Alexander, 2010;Jalali Farahani, 2012).…”

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The role of concurrent engineering in resilient critical infrastructures during disasters

Nekooie

2021

J Infrastruct Policy Dev

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The world has complex mega-cities and interdependent infrastructures. This complication in infrastructure relations makes it sensitive to disasters and failures. Cascading failure causes blackouts for the whole system of infrastructures during disasters and the lack of performance of the emergency management stakeholders is clear during a disaster due to the complexity of the system. This research aimed to develop a new concurrent engineering model following the total recovery effort. The objectives of this research were to identify the clustered intervention utilized in the field of resilience and developing a cross-functional intervention network to enhance the resilience of societies during a disaster. Content analysis was employed to classify and categorize the intervention in the main divisions and sub-divisions and the grouping of stakeholders. The transposing system was employed to develop an integrated model. The result of this research showed that the operations division achieved the highest weight of information interchange during the response to improve the resilience of the system. The committee of logistics and the committee of rescue and relief needed the widest bandwidth of information flow in the concurrent engineering (CE) model. The contributed CE model helped the stakeholders provide a resilient response system. The final model and the relative share value of exchanging information for each workgroup can speed up recovery actions. This research found that concurrent engineering (CE) is a viable concept to be implemented as a strategy for emergency management. The result of this research can help policymakers achieve a collaborative teamwork environment and to improve resilience factors during emergency circumstances for critical infrastructures.

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Human Resource Development for Emergency Management

Cited by 20 publications

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Emergent phenomena and the sociology of disaster: lessons, trends and opportunities from the research literature

Emergent phenomena and the sociology of disaster: lessons, trends and opportunities from the research literature

Effective Emergency Management: Reconsidering the Bureaucratic Approach

The role of concurrent engineering in resilient critical infrastructures during disasters

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