Humanitarian Efficiency and Role of Relief Workers

Abstract

The effectiveness of humanitarian assistance often depends on the effectiveness of the resources utilized such as predictive logic, relief partners, logistics technology, and relief personnel. Analysis of the most recent yet more vulnerable disasters have pointed out that the relief workers often created a difference. Lack of appropriate access to standardized models to train the relief workers has created a need to develop a competency model that can further be validated with the relief organizations to create a standard. The current study aims to develop and test a hypothetical model that proposes a relationship between the competencies of the emergency relief workers, job performance, and job satisfaction through empirical analysis of primary data. The study reveals a good relationship between the competencies, job performance, and job satisfaction and shows a significant impact of the three variables on each other. The study culminates into recommending the key findings of the personnel to be able to improve the efficiency of the relief operation.

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Transformational Leadership Contributions for Employee Autonomy

“…Proactive employees adopt and internalize organizational values and goals, holding it with strong an emotional connotation which reflects the conceptualization of exemplary employees. Companies consider job competency, interpersonal effectiveness and organizational orientation important characteristics, knowing that attentive employees often bring the vision with them, matching personal values to organizational values (Meduri & Rao, 2020). This current employment need presents a paradox, as job descriptions are impossible to anticipate all the possible work scenarios that an employment will encounter, managers need workers who, when confronted with out-of-the-ordinary environments, can use their own judgment.…”

Aid worker adaptability in humanitarian operations: Interplay of prosocial motivation and authoritarian leadership

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“…of aid workers to adaptively perform their assigned tasks in the face of challenges that may not be well defined and arise unexpectedly (Gottwald, 2010;Meduri, 2020;Swords, 2007).…”