Linking Disaster Preparedness and Organizational Response Effectiveness

Preparedness, Ideology, and Subsequent Distress: Examining a Case of Forced Relocation

“…The ability to anticipate and prepare for a stressful event is assumed to have significant positive implications for an individual's personal sense of well-being (Banerjee & Gillespie, 1994;Sattler et al, 2002). However, some studies have revealed that when an event is anticipated but there is no opportunity to actually prepare for it-or when knowledge of an event nonetheless involves extreme uncertainty-levels of distress actually increase.…”

Social work in disaster intervention: accounts from the grounds of Sichuan

“…As a helping profession, social work in Western societies has a long history in dealing with the aftermath of natural disasters such as hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes and snow storms. It has been well documented that social work is most effective in traumatic stress management, delivery of resources and services to vulnerable populations (Galambos 2005, Mitchell 1983, Van den Eynde andVeno 1999, Zakours 1996), formulation and implementation of different service plans (Banerjee andGillespie 1994, Dodds andNuehring 1996), community organization and advocacy (Pyles 2007). As Yanay and Benjamin (2005, pp.…”

Strategy and Organizational Disaster Preparedness

“…Although the relationship between strategy and preparedness has not yet been assessed empirically, there is evidence that strategic choice and effectiveness are related (Banerjee, 1992;Cameron, 1986;Hambrick, 1983;Snow and Hrebiniak, 1980;Miles and Snow, 1978). Since, conceptually, preparedness predicts the effectiveness of disaster response in organizations (Banerjee and Gillespie, 1994), there is reason to believe that strategy influences disaster preparedness. Banerjee (1992) found that defenders have the highest levels of preparedness, followed by analyzers and prospectors; reactors are the least prepared.…”