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Hussmann, Lena, and Jonna Schippert. "Do Leaders Prioritise Crisis Preparedness? : A study of how leaders can affect the level of crisis preparedness in SMEs." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-43995.
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Background: Crisis and crisis management is a research topic that since the 1980s has gotten increasing amounts of attention in research. A crisis refers to an event that may have severe effects on an organisation's survival, making it important to know how to prepare for them. Interest in research about crisis preparedness has been growing. However, literature tends to focus on crisis preparedness in an MNE (Multinational Enterprises) context, thus, leaving out SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises). Nonetheless, SMEs are a large and crucial part of the economy that may equally, if not more, be affected by crises. In SMEs, the leader has a significant impact on the strategic decisions in the business, making them a crucial part of the crisis preparedness process and an important aspect to study. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to explore what factors could influence the way a leader prioritises to work with crisis preparedness in SMEs. Further, this research aims to understand how those priorities affect the level of crisis preparedness in SMEs. Method: This study was conducted as a qualitative exploratory research in the form of a cross-sectional multiple case study. The data was collected through twelve semi-structured in-depth interviews, where all the participants were active as leaders in SMEs. The data collected in the interviews was subsequently analysed through a thematic analysis approach. Conclusion: It was found that besides the previously found external factors of SMEs, crisis preparedness is also influenced by the leader’s attitude about crisis preparedness. This attitude, in turn, is primarily formed through the leader’s understanding of crises and their personality. It was further found that the type of industry could be a factor in crisis preparedness due to for example, differing amounts of rules and regulations. In conclusion, the thesis was able to connect much of what has been found in previous research while adding a focus on the leader and their attitude about crisis preparedness.
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McKenzie, Karen. "School crisis and staff preparedness /." Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594960281&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-71). Also available online in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.
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Lindström, Petter, and Viktor Petersson. "Crisis Management - Influencing factors, implementation and preparedness." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-15559.
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Purpose:The purpose of this thesis is to examine how organizations work with crisismanagement in practice, with a focus on lower and middle level managersin the organizations. Background:Crisis within corporations and governmental institutions happens around usmore and more commonly. A survey made by the insurance company IFclaims that Swedish companies are badly prepared within the area of crisismanagement. A more globalized world also increases the effects of crisesfrom all over the world to affect Swedish corporations. We claim thatorganizational structure is a key factor to be able to have a developedcrisis management throughout the whole organization. Method:In order to answer the purpose we have used a qualitative deductiveresearch method. We have conducted semi-structured face to faceinterviews within two different types of Swedish organizations. Therespondents were chosen randomly from a division- or group managementlevel. Conclusion:The empirical study claims that there is a difference when defining a crisis,depending on previous experiences and education. To have the sameeducation and an overall common understanding of crisis management alsoincreases the efficiency when handling a crisis. Organizational structure and hierarchy is vital when it comes to crisismanagement. To have a clear structure and standardized meetings withinthe organization will help vigorous information to be communicated fromtop-bottom as well as from the bottom-top. However it might decreasethe flexibility and entrepreneurial spirit and our findings suggest that thisis an area that needs to involve within further researches.
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Todman-Lewis, Carrine V. M. "Strategies for Crisis Preparedness of Tourist Destinations." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3327.
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Billion-dollar disasters are projected to increase at a statistically significant rate of 5% annually. Crises affect the viability and lucrativeness of tourism business and implicate destinations in the process. Crisis preparedness is vital to improving outcomes and reducing consequential effects in the tourism industry-a key contributor to socioeconomic progress and infrastructural development worldwide. The study was an exploration of the strategies used for crisis preparedness to reduce business interruptions and improve the image of destinations affected by large-scale natural disasters and human-induced crises. A multiple case study was conducted based on the cycle of preparedness framework. Data were gathered from organization documents and semistructured interviews by telephone with 6 executives of 6 destination management organizations located in the south and west regions of the United States. Transcribed data were coded and then validated via member checking, revealing 3 themes: organizational preparedness, operational preparedness, and strategic communication. Specifically, possessing a crisis mindset, predetermining crisis risks and responses, and managing information to safeguard the reputation of tourism organizations and destinations were attributed to preparedness at the local and organization levels. Tourism and hospitality professionals may benefit from devising crisis plans, establishing rapport with crisis leaders and teams, and partnering with the media to promote positive perceptions and travel behaviors of tourists. Implications for social change include identifying strategies to limit the impact of crises on individuals and communities to improve the perceptions of safety of a tourist destination after a crisis and thus enhance its economic growth.
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Löwhagen, Renée. "Decision-Makers behind Effective Crisis Management : An industry comparison of a crisis prepared approach among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-26928.
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Master Thesis within Business Administration Title: Decision-Makers behind Effective Crisis Management: An industry comparison of a crisis prepared approach among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Author: Renée Löwhagen Tutor: Angelika Löfgren Date: May, 2015 Key words: Crises, Crisis Management, Crisis preparedness, SME, Managerial decision-making Abstract Problem. The world is in an era with technological advancements, shorter business cycles and a growing competition that requires constant organizational changes in order for or-ganizations to stay on track. Uncertainty in the business world is therefore higher than ev-er. With respect to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and their central role in the European economy, it is of high relevance of today’s researchers to adopt the perspec-tive of these businesses to take on a more crisis prepared approach. Purpose. The focus of this study is to investigate the perception of the concepts of crisis and crisis management among SMEs’ managers in different industries in Sweden. Moreover, this study intends to develop an understanding of the decision-making behind a crisis pre-pared approach of different industries of SMEs. Method. This research employs a multi-methodical qualitative research approach in which, in-depth interviews with owner-managers of SMEs and a crisis expert have been conduct-ed. Results. This study indicates that there may be a lack of insight regarding the core meaning of crises and crisis management among the SMEs’ managers studied. Crises and crisis management was found to be perceived in a similar way among all the managers in the study. Crises were perceived as involving the personnel and safety issues of the business-es. Crisis Management, was understood as the management of an already occurred crisis, rather than the preparation for potential crises. A deficiency was found among the busi-nesses regarding crisis preparations. This seemed to be related to resource restrictions and a general lack of research about this topic in the context of SMEs. The study indicates that SME managers do not always make formal decisions regarding crisis preparations. In the cases where the SME managers of the study had prepared plans and strategies for how to handle crises, these had emerged as a gradual process rather than from decisions taken in this matter.
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Elias, Mahmoud. "Crisis Preparedness Within Manufacturing Organizations : A study on corporate behavior in the face of crises." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-447468.
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Problem: Crisis and crisis preparedness are being increasingly discussed within the business world. Especially now, when the current pandemic triggered maybe the most significant wave of economic downturns the globe is facing ever. Nevertheless, the Manufacturing Industry (MI) was severely impacted due to its dependence on the e.g., supply chain aspect. Therefore, it was interesting to explore how MO’s challenge crisis by investigating how they prepare for a crisis, i.e., crisis preparedness. A review of the topic within the scientific papers shows a lack of knowledge regarding crisis preparedness within MO’s. Purpose: This thesis aimed to increase how MO’s prepare for a crisis and explore what measures (actions) they use to prepare for a crisis. Method: This thesis followed a qualitative research approach (inductive) with a multiple case study design approach. The data were collected by three semi-structured interviews with three major organizations, where all the participants had a long experience with crisis management. Later on, the collected data were analyzed thematically (thematic analysis approach). Empirical findings: The empirical findings showed that organizations need to consider four main aspects when building a solid crisis preparation structure. These aspects consist of: (1) careful understanding of the environment the crisis occurred in, (2) possess extensive experience dealing with a crisis, (3) scenarios practices, (4) strong communication and transparency system, and finally (5) fostering crisis preparedness culture within the organization. All these aspects/skills must be acquired within the crisis management team (CMT). However, the communication aspect stood out more than the other aspects, which indicate the importance of communication within the organization. Contribution: This thesis contributes theoretically by emphasizing the essentiality of the communication aspect and its positive impact on a crisis preparedness process within organizations. Likewise, from a managerial perspective, this thesis suggests that organizations should implement a crisis communication hub, where all departments within an organization possess all necessary tools to help them survive any crisis through an effective communication system.Confidential
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Thompson, Hannah Maria. "An Assessment Of Crisis Preparedness In Ohio Dairy Companies." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1353337817.
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DeGroat, Abbe R. "The use of crisis management by extension in hurricane preparedness." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0013419.
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Francis, Fredric Marc. "Crisis Preparedness of Leadership Behaviors Among Elected Leaders During Hurricanes." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1457.
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Crisis preparedness is the responsibility of every person, business, and leader, and leadership behavioral skills are an essential characteristic of crisis preparedness. The purpose of this case study was to explore the decisions of elected leaders along the Gulf Coast during Hurricanes Katrina and Ike in order to understand their leadership behaviors in crisis preparedness. The conceptual framework was based on the emergency management theory presented by McEntire in 2004, which helped to define the necessary components for leaders' successful crisis preparedness. Data were collected through interviews with 5 members from the National Emergency Management Agency along with a document review of elected leader responses and decisions during both Hurricanes Katrina and Ike from government reports, previous studies, and scholarly articles. Data were interpretively analyzed by listing out several leadership models and the behaviors that identify them and then by reviewing the document study information in 2 matrices for methodological triangulation and data saturation. The findings highlighted 5 emerging themes named as the five Cs of crisis preparedness: compassion, continuity, communication, common sense, and confidence. This study may contribute to social change by identifying key leadership traits that governors and other elected leaders should use in crisis preparedness, which may contribute to the safety, health, and well-being of constituents during a natural disaster.
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Santana, Guilherme Guimrães. "Crisis management : towards a model for the hotel industry : an examination of crisis preparedness and stakeholder relationships in crisis situations." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 1997. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/299/.
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Crises are inevitable. There is no way to prevent all crises from happening. In fact, in today's business environment crises are an integral part of organizational life. Crisis situations are by nature novel, unstructured, frameworks. Crises are sudden, acute, and demand a timely response. Most man-made crises are in principle preventable. Crisis management is a new field of research that addresses the problems of dealing with crises, and the stress that accompanies crises. Crisis management involves efforts to prevent crises from occurring; to prepare for a better protection against the impact of a crisis agent; to make for an effective response to an actual crisis; and to provide plans and resources for recovery and rehabilitation in the aftermath of a crisis. It is no longer enough to consider "if" a crisis will happen but rather "when" a crisis will occur, "which type", and "how". There is no doubt that the travel and tourism industry is especially susceptible and vulnerable to crises. It is argued that the hotel industry, given its operational characteristics, management practices (which is strongly influenced by long established traditions), and its operating environment, is even more prone to crises. However, very little has been done to understand crisis (that is, how a crisis evolves, crisis typology, anatomy, and management of crisis). This study describes and discusses all major relevant elements and issues to the emerging field of crisis management. Within the domain of crisis management theory, the study describes and elaborates on critical issues such as crisis typology, anatomy of crisis, crisis planning and training, crisis decision making, crisis communication, and crisis management. It is argued in this study that organizational culture is the most fundamental element in crisis preparedness. That is, organizational culture, not organization structure, size, financial history, etc., is the main determinant of crisis preparedness. The research also argue that stakeholders are fundamental in crisis prevention, crisis management and crisis recovery. 2 This study, in a first instance, examines the crisis preparedness of 33 of the 50 top hotel organizations operating in the UK (HCIMA, 1995). Crisis preparedness is examined in the light of organizational culture. For that, top executives in those organizations were interviewed and responded to two questionnaires. A crisis preparedness framework (or continuum) was derived from the application of factor analysis on the questionnaire data. The results suggest that the hotel industry is not prepared for crises. Given that a crisis is a multi-stakeholder phenomenon (it inevitably involves other agents) this study also explores, building upon the results obtained from the crisis preparedness continuum, the notion of stakeholders relationships in crisis situations. More specifically, the research proposition states that organizations that are crisis "prepared" are more consistent on their opinions about stakeholders' role and behaviour in crisis situations than those organizations that are not prepared for crises. The study confirmed both the research question and proposition. The study also presents an operational definition of crisis management and proposes a model for crisis management.
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Dawley, Emma G. "Demography in Crisis: A Cohort Analysis of Retirement Wealth and Preparedness." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107413.
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Thesis advisor: Matthew S. RutledgeIn the past several decades, saving for retirement has significantly changed, with the large replacement of Defined Contribution for Defined Benefit plans, as well as the unreliability of Social Security given the aging population. This paper analyzes retirement wealth across three generational cohorts—Baby Boomers (1946-1964), Gen Xers (1965-1980), and Millennials (1981-2000)—in order to compare preparedness and determine whether or not younger cohorts have compensated for the future unreliability of other traditional retirement income sources. The results suggest that levels of retirement wealth do not significantly differ across cohorts at all age profiles. Therefore, younger generational cohorts have not increased the amount of personal saving in order to maintain their pre-retirement standards of living throughout retirement. These results indicate that a change in saving structure and policy may be necessary to ensure that younger cohorts retire out of poverty
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2017
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Arts and Sciences Honors Program
Discipline: Economics
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Alvarez, Maria Doris. "Emergency preparedness and response systems." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Sep%5FAlvarez.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2006.Thesis Advisor(s): Alex Bordertsky. "September 2006." Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.
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Dinkin, Donna Robbin Fried Bruce. "Organizational crises in local North Carolina public health agencies a crisis typology and assessment of organizational preparedness /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1364.
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Thesis (DrPH)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Administration in the School of Public Health." Discipline: Health Policy and Administration; Department/School: Public Health.
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Ulaszewski, C. Anna. "Public Participation During Reactive, Crisis-Driven Drought Planning Versus Proactive, Preparedness Planning." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6141.
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Droughts are occurring globally and should be recognized as a global issue and drought planning should use a proactive approach on the part of the world community. However, much drought planning, even in developed and highly developed countries, is reactive and programs are often poorly coordinated sometimes with unforeseen negative consequences for marginalized and disenfranchised populations. Literature pertaining to planning strategy for existing, drought crises is nominal and often contributes to patterns of reactiveness and resulting inequity. To gain a better understanding of crisis-driven planning and the participatory process, this gap was viewed through the lenses of institutional analysis and development and procedural justice and fairness. Specifically, this study was designed to determine how procedural justice and fairness, and the institutional analysis and development framework delineates participatory roles during reactive, crisis-driven planning versus proactive, preparedness planning. A multi-case/within-case analysis was conducted. Six publicly-available documents were selected using provisional and sequence coding lists; emerging themes were also identified at this time. The within-case analysis showed discernable differences between reactive and proactive participatory processes. These findings were used to conduct a cross-case analysis; this analysis indicated that commitment to the participatory process and to change were the keys elements in producing fair and just policies. Drought events can be widely divergent and dynamic, no two being alike; however, the spirit of procedural justice must be part of governance that brings public participation within the reactive planning process into better alignment with proactive planning.
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Studenberg, Heather. "Chief Student Affairs Officers’ Perceptions of Institutional Crisis Management, Preparedness, and Response." NSUWorks, 2017. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/68.
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This dissertation examined chief student affairs officers’ perceptions of institutional crisis management, preparedness, and response. A goal of this study was to uncover findings that can benefit crisis management protocols or best practices regarding crisis management team training, plan communications, and emergency management personnel on campus, as well as, learn if size of enrollment impacts crisis preparedness and response. Research questions assessed if a significant relationship exists between preparedness in responding to crisis with the number of training topics covered with a crisis management team, the number of modes used to communicate the crisis management plan, size of enrollment and the impact of a director of emergency management position on campus. Next, the study assessed if significant relationships exist between size of enrollment with adequacy team training and perceived manner of crisis response. The sample comprised of Chief Student Affairs Officers from either institutions that previously participated in a similar study in 2001 and 2007, or are NASPA domestic member institutions that are four-year, public or private with an enrollment of 5,000 students or more. It was discovered that four to five training topics delivered and between three to six modes used to communicate the crisis management plan were optimal frequencies for this population. Institutions with a director of emergency management perceived themselves as more prepared, and institutions with 10,000-20,000 students enrolled perceived themselves as the most prepared and proactive. In contribution to the field of conflict resolution studies, this research study connected crisis management to conflict management through a systems design approach
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Flynn, Terence Timothy. "Organizational crisis public relations management in Canada and the United States constructing a predictive model of crisis preparedness /." online accessffrom Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2004. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3176990.
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Biladeau, Pamela G. "Strengthening and expanding the Citizen Corps." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Mar%5FBiladeau.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006."March 2006." Thesis Advisor(s): Robert Bach. Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-97). Also available online.
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Santiago, Denise L. "Assessment of public health infrastructure to determine public health preparedness." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Mar%5FSantiago.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006.Thesis Advisor(s): Anke Richter. "March 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-81). Also available online.
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Fleishauer, Alyssa. "School counselors' perceptions on their preparedness to implement school's crisis intervention plans and to counsel during time of general crisis." Online version, 2002. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2002/2002fleishauera.pdf.
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Walser, Johanna. "Crisis communication applied to mega-events and festivals : A multi-method analysis of communicative preparedness." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-40778.
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Crisis communication has been widely researched for an economic purpose, with the focus on preventing damage to a corporation’s reputation or the restoration of a politician’s image. Additionally, crisis communication also found its utility for natural hazards as well as for terrorist attacks. However, identified as being a research gap, this thesis focuses on studying the prepared crisis communication of mega-event and festival organizations in case of a serious incident. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the area of crisis communication in the way that it focuses on the process of preparing for a possible crisis with the creation of effective communication manuals, action plans, etc. rather than investigating the post-crisis communication. Through using the uncertainty reduction theory and the chaos theory, it is possible to investigate the internal crisis management processes of organizers that go beyond protecting its reputation, but focus more on saving human lives as uncertainty and chaos get reduced. A deductive approach was taken through conducting interviews and carrying out a thematic analysis of written documentary sources, such as manuals and action plans, as well as the transcripts. In general, one can say that the awareness about the importance of a crisis management and communication plan rises. Regular trainings and a constant collaboration with external partners, such as the blue light organizations, are seen as central to the emergency planning process. Moreover, to guarantee an effective crisis communication, often smaller task groups within the crisis management team are in charge of instructional crisis communication. Knowledge about different threat-scenarios and functions of external specialists reduces uncertainty and supports actions to reduce chaos. This thesis and its findings have a societal relevance, in the sense that it allows a wider and deeper understanding of crisis communication in an area of application that does not seem to be very common. Through insights into the crisis management process of the different event- and festival organizations, one can become active today and threats to human lives can be minimized or even avoided in the future.
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Fogelström, Ida, and Emelie Stenström. "HR -utövares utmaningar i Covid -19 krisen : Subjektiva upplevelser av utmaningar i krisen." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avdelningen för psykologi, pedagogik och sociologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-15457.
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Covid-19 krisen har påverkat hela världen på flera olika sätt däribland organisationer och HR-utövare. Syftet med studien var att få en fördjupad förståelse för de utmaningar HR-utövare upplevt i samband med Covid-19 krisen och deras upplevelse av hur tidigare erfarenheter och organisatorisk krisberedskap påverkat utmaningarna. Covid-19 krisen skapade en unik möjlighet att undersöka HR i förhållande till krissituationer. Studien genomfördes med nio HR-utövare från en och samma region, som helt eller delvis arbetade med strategiska HR-frågor. För att samla in empiri tillämpades en kvalitativ metod där semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes, intervjuerna analyserades genom en tematisk analys där fyra övergripande teman med tillhörande subteman utformades. Resultatet visade på utmaningar i att ställa om och ha ett kristänk, kommunicera och sprida information, säkerställa en god arbetsmiljö, bibehålla effektivitet, hantera ovisshet och oro samt att se till att organisationen var bemannade trots ökade sjuktal. Resultatet visade även att erfarenheter och organisationens krisberedskap på något sätt hade påverkat respondenternas upplevelser av vilka utmaningar de sett och för hur de hanterats. Teori och tidigare forskning som presenterats har lagt fokus på krisberedskap, krishantering och HRs roll vid krisarbete. Tidigare forskning om HR-utövares upplevelser av utmaningar kopplat till krissituationer har däremot inte gått att finna, därmed kan studiens resultat ha bidragit till nya perspektiv inom området. Slutsatserna som dras är att tidigare erfarenheter och krisberedskap kan ha betydelse för hur HR-utövare upplevt utmaningarna i Covid-19 krisen och att utmaningar kan vara svåra att undvika trots att förberedelse och erfarenhet finns.The Covid-19 crisis has affected the world in many different ways, including organizations and HR practitioners. The purpose of the study was to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges that HR practitioners experienced in relation to the Covid-19 crisis and their experience of how previous experiences and crisis preparedness may have affected the challenges. The Covid-19 crisis created a unique opportunity to examine HR in relation to crisis situations. The study was conducted with nine HR practitioners in the same region, who worked entirely or partly with strategic HR issues. To gather empirical data, a qualitative method was used in which semi-structured interviews were conducted, the interviews were analyzed through a thematic analysis in which four overall themes and related subthemes were designed. The results showed challenges regarding adapting and having a crisis attitude, communicate and disseminating information, ensuring and providing a good working environment, maintaining efficiency, managing uncertainty and concerns, and ensuring that the organization was staffed despite increasing sick leave rates. The results also showed that experiences and the organization's crisis preparedness in some way hade affected the challenges the respondents saw and how they were handled. Theory and previous research that has been presented have focused on crisis preparedness, crisis management and HR's role in crisis work. Previous research on HR practitioners' experiences of challenges linked to crisis situations have not been found, the result of the study may therefore have given new perspectives to the field. The conclusions that can be drawn is that past experiences and crisis preparedness can have an impact on the challenges that arised in the Covid-19 crisis and that challenges are difficult to avoid for HR practitioners despite preparation and experience.
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Sudnik, John. ""Dirty bomb" attack assessing New York City's level of preparedness from a first responder's perspective /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Mar%5FSudnik.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006.Thesis Advisor(s): Christopher Bellavita. "March 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-97). Also available online.
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Trethowan, Vicki Jean. "School crisis management in the 21st century an examination of school counsellors' preparedness and implications for training /." Swinburne Research Bank, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/56900.
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Thesis (DPsych) -- School of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, 2009.Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, 2009". Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-189)
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Vikberg, Victoria. "Krishantering i skolan : En studie om hur skolan som helhet arbetar med krishantering." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-31215.
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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the school as a whole is working with crisis management. The purpose includes examining the readiness of both school teachers and leisure educators when it comes to dealing with crises that children undergo and also to study how they best can provide support for those children. Accordingly, this thesis aims to provide an insight into what the school's work with crisis management might look like. The basis of this thesis consists of six qualitative interviews with a principal, a school counselor, two class teachers and two leisure educators. The study shows that it is important to have a functioning crisis team and a well-made emergency preparedness plan, which the school in this study is considered to have. The crisis group is responsible throughout the crisis work, attends trainings and updates the emergency plan. It is also the crisis group's responsibility to ensure that the other staff knows about the emergency plan and its content and how they should proceed if a crisis were to occur. Some staff members participating in this study do not feel fully prepared to handle a crisis situation. However, it seems they have more knowledge of handling such situations than they think, since they know how to proceed if a crisis occurs. They also have good thoughts on how to support children who are in a crisis.Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka hur skolan som helhet arbetar med krishantering. I syftet ligger att studera vilken beredskap såväl skola, som lärare och fritidspedagoger har när det gäller att hantera barns krissituationer, samt hur de på bästa sätt kan vara ett stöd för barn som genomgår någon form av kris. Detta examensarbete syftar därmed till att ge en inblick i hur skolans krishanteringsarbete kan se ut. Undersökningen i detta arbete har bestått av sex kvalitativa intervjuer med en rektor, en skolkurator, två klasslärare samt två fritidspedagoger. Resultatet av undersökningen har visat att det är viktigt med en fungerande krisgrupp och en välarbetad krisberedskapsplan, vilket skolan i undersökningen anses ha. Krisgruppen är den som ansvarar över hela krisarbetet, går på utbildningar och uppdaterar krisplanen så att den är aktuell. Det är även krisgruppens ansvar att se till så att övrig personal känner till krisplanen och dess innehåll, samt hur de ska gå tillväga om en krissituation skulle uppstå. Några på skolan som deltagit i denna undersökning känner sig inte helt förberedda inför att hantera en krissituation. Däremot verkar de ändå ha mer kunskap om det än vad de själva tror, då de vet hur de skulle gå tillväga om en krissituation uppstår, samt att de har goda tankar om hur man ska stödja barn som befinner sig i en kris.
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Chun, Hans H. "Crisis planning at private residential institutions of higher education in Northern California." Scholarly Commons, 2008. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2371.
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The purpose of this study was to analyze critical elements for crisis planning at seven private four-year residential colleges and universities in Northern California. The researcher reviewed each campus's written crisis plans and interviewed campus officials in charge of leading their respective institution's crisis planning efforts. The data revealed that the threat of natural disasters was a common impetus for formal crisis planning. Institutions borrowed information from other campuses and public and private organizations to develop institutional crisis plans. Outside agencies both contributed to and gained from collaboration with these institutions, although all institutions sought a degree of self-sufficiency for food and water supplies. Emergency Operations Centers were designed to focus staffing and resources in a single, in some cases moveable, location in the event of a crisis. Campuses in this study invested considerable resources in systems of communication with students, faculty, and staff, including sirens, digital displays, and Connect-ED, but individual subscription remained a barrier to the smooth functioning of Connect-ED. Multi-layered communication systems enhance a campus's ability to communicate with all stakeholders. Philosophies varied on specificity versus flexibility as the framework for crisis planning. Campuses used threat assessment teams as proactive intervention to identify students who pose a threat to themselves or others. The State of California Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS), which became a template for the Federal National Incident Management System (NIMS), has become the unifying factor for crisis planning among these institutions. SEMS/NIMS, while not a mandate, emerged as a driving force for planning, because compliance with SEMS/NIMS is a requirement for receiving federal disaster emergency reimbursement for property damage. Practicing the plan, through tabletop and functional simulation exercises, allowed campus officials and civic safety agencies to develop a shared vocabulary and procedures. Crisis planning is a means to help a campus prepare for and respond to an incident in an effective manner, thus reducing harm to people and property damage. Although crisis planning cannot completely prevent incidents from occurring, appropriate and advanced planning and preparation can allow campus leaders to contain both the duration of and the damage caused by major crises.
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Burman, Malin. "Plötsligt händer det : En kvalitativ studie om krishantering inom den privata sektorn." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för miljö- och livsvetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-33613.
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Dödsfall, arbetsplatsolyckor, hot och våld. Alla är de exempel på kriser som inträffar på svenska företag varje år. Dessa händelser ställer krav på att företagen har en organisation och struktur för att klara av att hantera kriserna och för att minska verkningarna av dem. Krishantering är ett samlingsbegrepp för hur man systematiskt arbetar för att minska krisens omfattning, både före, under och efter att den har inträffat. Syftet med att använda krishantering är att företagen skall kunna förebygga att allvarliga händelser inträffar och att hantera dem på ett effektivt sätt. Ungefär sju av tio svenska företag har idag etablerad krisberedskap som gör att de klarar av att hantera kriser och olyckor, men lagstiftningen ställer krav att alla företag skall planera och organisera krisstöd och krishantering oavsett verksamhetsområde och bransch. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur chefer i privata företag beskriver krishantering inom sina verksamheter och hur man ser på prioritering av krishanteringen. Studien undersöker även huruvida det anses viktigt med utbildning för att skapa förutsättningar för att bedriva ett gott krishanteringsarbete. Totalt har fyra stycken kvalitativa intervjuer genomförts med chefer i privata företag och organisationer. Intervjuerna har sedan analyserats utifrån innehållsanalys med meningsbärande enheter, koder, kategorier samt underkategorier. Resultatet i studien påvisar stora skillnader mellan större och mindre företag, där de större företagen har etablerade krisorganisationer med rutiner och arbetssätt som gör att de på ett effektivt sätt kan hantera allvarliga händelser. De mindre företagen saknar krisberedskap helt och hållet och saknar många gånger information och kunskap om hur de skall tolka och applicera lagtext på området.
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Porcar, Becker Ingeborg. "Alternativas a la incubación de eventos críticos en las organizaciones." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670785.
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Una mirada al llistat cronològic dels desastres ocorreguts des de la fi de la Segona Guerra Mundial fins als nostres dies mostra una preocupant tendència al fet que accidents molt similars es repeteixin dues o més vegades. Exemples d'aquesta estranya tendència a la «clonació» d'accidents són els del transbordador Challenger de la NASA el 1986 i del transbordador Columbia el 2003 o els terribles abocaments de l'Exxon Valdez el 1989, del vaixell de càrrega Erika el 1999 o del vaixell Prestige davant les costes gallegues el 2002. De la mateixa manera, algunes crisis financeres que van afectar terriblement als petits estalviadors tenen punts en comú, com és el cas de la telefonia Worldcom el 2001, de l'energètica Enron al mateix any o de l'empresa Parmalat el 2003 o la de Lehman Brothers el 2008, per citar només alguna d'aquestes clonacions.
Com és possible que una crisi no generi aprenentatge suficient per evitar que es repeteixi? Podent assumir que les fallades tecnològiques són cada vegada més infreqüents, per què no som capaços de reduir els errors humans? I per què en un món que cada vegada disposa de més dades i de sistemes d'anàlisi més complexos i eficients i que posa a disposició dels gestors programari molt potent i eficient per a la presa de decisions, no som capaços de prevenir millor les crisis i els accidents?
Partint del model sistèmic d'incubació d'esdeveniments crítics en les organitzacions, formulat per Roux-Dufort, conjuntament amb els seus col·laboradors Forgues, Lalonde i Ramboatiana entre els anys 1998 i 2015, aquesta investigació tracta de respondre a les anteriors preguntes mitjançant l'anàlisi del contingut temàtic de les aportacions de directius representatius de diferents tipus d'organitzacions.
Els resultats indiquen que encara hi ha certa tendència a pensar en les crisis com esdeveniments excepcionals i imprevisibles. No obstant això, es va obrint pas la idea que a un esdeveniment fatídic s'arriba després d'un llarg procés de deteriorament per errors no resolts que s'acumulen i van debilitant l'organització. S'ha comprovat que els directius mostren força receptivitat davant aquest concepte. Es conclou que per poder contribuir a la prevenció de les crisis en les organitzacions cal aprofundir en dues línies estratègiques. D'una banda, cal consolidar els canvis revolucionaris que s'han anat produint en les organitzacions en els últims anys a fi de fer-les més adaptables a un món canviant i ple d'incertesa. Per l’altra, s’assenyala que és important dedicar més esforços a recuperar a les persones, els equips i les organitzacions després d'haver patit una crisi. Sovint són els records i les preguntes no resoltes referents a un episodi passat els que obstaculitzen col·locar la prevenció de crisi en un lloc estratègic en el qual formi part de la pròpia cultura organitzacional i no només del Departament de Riscos Laborals.Una mirada al listado cronológico de los desastres ocurridos desde el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta nuestros días muestra una preocupante tendencia a que accidentes muy similares se repitan dos o más veces. Ejemplos de esta extraña tendencia a la «clonación» de accidentes son los del transbordador Challenger de la NASA en 1986 y del transbordador Columbia en 2003 o los terribles vertidos del Exxon Valdez en 1989, del carguero Erika en 1999 o del barco Prestige ante las costas gallegas en 2002. De la misma manera, algunas crisis financieras que afectaron terriblemente a los pequeños ahorradores tienen puntos en común, como es el caso de la telefonía Worldcom en 2001, de la energética Enron en el mismo año o de la empresa Parmalat en 2003 o la de Lehman Brothers en 2008, por solo citar alguna de estas clonaciones. ¿Cómo es posible que una crisis no genere aprendizaje suficiente para evitar que se repita? Pudiendo asumir que los fallos tecnológicos son cada vez más infrecuentes, ¿por qué no somos capaces de reducir los errores humanos? Y ¿por qué en un mundo que cada ve dispone de más datos y de sistemas de análisis más complejos y eficientes, y que pone a disposición de los gestores software muy potente y eficiente para la toma de decisiones, no somos capaces de prevenir mejor las crisis y los accidentes? Partiendo del modelo sistémico de incubación de eventos críticos en las organizaciones, formulado por Roux-Dufort, junto a sus colaboradores Forgues, Lalonde y Ramboatiana entre los años 1998 y 2015, esta investigación trata de responder a las anteriores preguntas mediante el análisis del contenido temático de las aportaciones de directivos representativos de diferentes tipos de organizaciones. Los resultados indican que todavía hay cierta tendencia a pensar en las crisis como eventos excepcionales e imprevisibles. Sin embargo, se va abriendo paso la idea de que a un evento fatídico se llega tras un largo proceso de deterioro por errores no resueltos que se acumulan y van debilitando la organización. Se ha comprobado que los directivos muestran bastante receptividad ante este concepto. Se concluye que para poder contribuir a la prevención de las crisis en las organizaciones hay que ahondar en dos líneas estratégicas. Por una parte, es necesario consolidar los cambios revolucionarios que se han ido produciendo en las organizaciones en los últimos años con objeto de hacerlas más adaptables a un mundo cambiante y lleno de incertidumbre. Y por otra sería importante dedicar mayores esfuerzos a recuperar las personas, los equipos y las organizaciones tras haber sufrido una crisis. A menudo son los recuerdos y las preguntas no resueltas referentes a un episodio pasado los que obstaculizan colocar la prevención de crisis en un lugar estratégico en el que forma parte de la cultura organizacional y no sólo del Departamento de Riesgos Laborales.
Taking a look at the chronological list of disasters that occurred from the end of World War II to the present day, it shows a worrying tendency for very similar accidents to be repeated two or more times. Examples of this strange tendency to «cloning» accidents are those of the NASA Challenger shuttle in 1986 and the Columbia shuttle in 2003 or the terrible spills of the Exxon Valdez in 1989, the cargo ship Erika in 1999 or the Prestige in Spain in 2002. In the same way, some financial crises that affected common citizen have a lot of points in common like in the cases of the Worldcom telephony scandal in 2001, the energy company Enron in the same year, the failure of Parmalat company in 2003 or that of Lehman Brothers in 2008, just to name a few of these clones. How can it be that crisis do not generate enough learning to avoid their repetition? Assuming that technological failures are increasingly rare, why are we not able to reduce human errors? And why in a world that is increasingly able to use more complex and efficient analysis systems, which makes powerful software assisted decision-making available for managers do we still not succeed in better crisis prevention? Starting from the systemic model of incubation of critical events in organizations, formulated by Roux-Dufort, together with his collaborators Forgues, Lalonde and Ramboatiana between the years 1998 and 2015, this research tries to answer the previous questions by analysing the contributions of representative executives of different types of organizations. The results indicate that there is still a certain tendency to think about crises as exceptional and unpredictable events. The idea, however, is making its way that a fatal event is reached after a long process of deterioration due to unresolved accumulate errors that weaken the organization. Managers have been found to be quite receptive to this concept. It is concluded that in order to contribute to the prevention of crises in organizations, it is necessary to delve into two strategic lines. In one hand, it is important to consolidate the revolutionary changes that have taken place in organizations in recent years in order to make them more adaptable to a changing world full of uncertainty. In the other hand, it would be important to dedicate greater efforts to recovering people, teams and organizations after having suffered a crisis. Very often, memories and unresolved questions about a past episode are the reasons why crisis prevention are not placed at an strategic level, where it would be part of the organizational culture and not just within the Occupational Hazards Department.
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Eriksson, Magnus. "Storskalig utrymning - en fråga om samverkan och flexibilitet : Vilka uppfattningar finns om ett genomförande på lokal och regional nivå i närheten av kärnkraftverket i Ringhals." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för miljö- och livsvetenskaper, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-36351.
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Många svenska organisationer har idag en bristfällig förmåga att planera och förbereda en storskalig utrymning. Enligt MSB:s vägledning om utrymning 2014 anses dagens planering ofta vara förlegad och återföring av erfarenheter sker godtyckligt. Vidare varierar tolkning och tillämpning av gällande lagstiftning. Denna upplevs generellt som otydlig och ansvarsförhållandet mellan olika organisationer behöver tydliggöras. Syftet med studien är att utifrån erfarenheter från internationella exempel och allmänna principer för storskalig utrymning jämföra det med svensk kontext. Hypotesen är att avsaknaden av erfarenheter från att faktiskt genomföra utrymning i större omfattning sannolikt påverkar hur samhällets beredskap ser ut idag. Vald metod är semistrukturerade intervjuer som genomfördes med personer i nyckelfunktioner vid olika myndigheter på lokal och regional nivå i Halmstad, Halland. Materialet behandlades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Studien består också av en fallstudie där Halmstads kommun utgör en avgränsning och ett fall att studera. Resultatet påvisar att kunskap och förmåga att genomföra storskalig utrymning är bristfällig eller saknas. Samtliga organisationer som deltog i studien saknar praktisk erfarenhet från storskaliga utrymningar och ser genomförandet som en stor utmaning. Behov finns för åtgärder, dels planering i egen organisation dels gemensam planering med berörda organisationer. Det anses också att det finns kompetens inom organisationerna där exempelvis Varbergs och Kungsbackas kommuner tillsammans med Polismyndigheten Väst har mångårig erfarenhet av utrymningsplanering och övningar rörande kärnteknisk olycka. En gemensam utbildningsinsats, utifrån allmänna principer, med målsättning att skapa en gemensam inriktning och handlingsstruktur för storskalig utrymning rekommenderas.Today many Swedish organizations have weak capacity to plan and prepare for a large-scale evacuation. According to MSB:s guide on evacuation 2014 todays planning is often considered outdated and feedback of experience is done arbitrarily. Furthermore, interpretation and application of existing legislation is varying. The legislation is generally perceived as unclear and responsibilities between different organizations need to be clarified. The purpose of the study is, based on the experience of international examples and general principles for large-scale evacuation compare it with Swedish context. The hypothesis is that the lack of experience actually implementing the evacuation on a large scale is likely affecting how society's preparedness looks today. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with people in key positions at various agencies on local and regional level in Halmstad, Halland. A qualitative content analysis was used. The study also consists of a case study where Halmstad Municipality and its proximity to the nuclear power plant in Ringhals represent delimitation and a case study. The result demonstrates that knowledge and ability to carry out large-scale evacuation is incomplete or missing. All organizations miss practical experience of large-scale evacuations and envision the implementation as a major challenge. There is a need for planning, in own organization and joint with interested organizations. It is also considered to be expertise within the organizations, as example Varbergs and Kungsbackas municipalities together with Police Authority West has many years of experience in emergency planning and exercises related to nuclear accidents. A joint training program, from general principles, with the aim of creating a common focus and action structure for large-scale evacuation is recommended.
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Fonseca, Thomas Allen. "Professional school counselor perception of preparedness in stabilizing a student in specific crisis situations a random sample of American School Counselor Association members /." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2008. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-10242008-145743.
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Delaney, John. "Fire fighters' ability and willingness to participate in a pandemic." Thesis, Registration and login required, 2008. https://www.hsdl.org/homesec/docs/theses/08Mar_Delaney.pdf&code=0b11819a26de4946f5547907991d6aad.
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Cunningham, Jennifer M. "School Psychologists Involvement and Perceived Preparedness in the Provision of Suicide-Related Services: A Comparison of Practitioners Serving Different School Levels." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1605.
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While the manifestation of suicidal thoughts and/or behavior is more common among adolescents, children are capable of, and do experience, suicidal ideation as well as demonstrate suicidal behaviors. Suicide is the sixth leading cause of death among children aged 5-14 years (Center for Disease Control [CDC], 2008). However, children may not always be referred or brought to the attention of the school psychologist, as their threats may be considered immature and unfounded. The purpose of this study is to provide data that clarifies the need for the provision of suicide-related services for children in elementary school. An archival dataset of 226 National Association of School Psychologist (NASP) practitioners was analyzed. In regards to referrals for potentially suicidal youth, within a two year period, practitioners who served elementary schools received an average of 1.64 referrals, practitioners who served middle/junior high schools received 2.95 referrals, and practitioners at the high school level received 3.95 referrals. Within the same time period, practitioners who served elementary schools experienced an average of .05 completed suicides, middle/junior high school practitioners experienced .07 completed suicides, and practitioners at the high school level experienced .16 completed suicides. Results indicated that overall, practitioners felt "moderately prepared" to provide suicide-related services to youth. School psychologists who predominantly served high schools perceived themselves to be significantly more prepared to engage in suicide-related roles than their elementary school colleagues. School psychologists who predominantly served middle/junior high schools were similar to their colleagues who served either elementary or high schools on three out of four professional roles. Implications for future research, training, and practice are discussed.
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Dahlgren, Elin. "Räddningsledningens upplevelser av ledning under svåra förhållanden." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för individ och samhälle, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-4483.
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Samhällsstörningar i form av större olyckor, naturkatastrofer och liknande kriser har under senare år varit relativt frekvent förekommande i Västsverige. Denna kvalitativa studies övergripande syfte var därför att fördjupa kunskapen om vissa avgränsande faktorer som upplevdes som underlättande respektive försvårande med avseende på ledarskapet vid hanteringen av orkanen Gudrun samt vid raset av Europaväg 6 i Munkedals kommun. Ett delsyfte med studien var även att koppla studiens resultat mot Ronthys (2006) teori om ledarintelligens. Underlaget för studien utgjordes främst av hur personer i ledande ställning inom räddningsorganisationen upplevt dessa händelser, något som författaren fick ta del av genom sju semistrukturerade intervjuer. Av de intervjuade var sex män och en kvinna, åldersfördelningen varierade mellan 40 till 65 år. Samtliga deltagare var väl erfarna inom krishanteringsområdet med minst tio års arbetslivserfarenhet. Insamlad data analyserades med tematisk analys. De styrkor med avseende på ledarskapet som framkom av studien var vikten av att ha ett gemensamt mål, väl definierade roller, erfarenhet, gemensam struktur, möjlighet att distansera sig, att organisationerna fanns samlade samt att avlösningar finns tillgängliga. Svårigheter med avseende på ledarskapet som påpekades, var att deltagarna ställdes inför ovana situationer, osäkerhetsfaktorer, konflikter, emotionell påverkan samt att det kunde vara problem med att kunna tillgodose basbehov. Resultatet visade även på de många krav som ställdes på ledarna, exempelvis sakkunskaper och sociala kompetenser som ödmjukhet och förmåga att inge lugn och förtroende hos sina medarbetare. Slutligen visade resultatet på vikten av fortsatta övningar och kompetensutvecklingsbehovet hos de ledare som har till uppgift att hantera krissituationer, vilket bör beaktas inför kommande händelser som ställer krav på ett långvarigt ledningsarbete.Community disturbances in the form of major accidents, natural disasters and similar emergencies have in recent years been relatively frequent in western Sweden. This qualitative study’s overall aim was to expand the knowledge concerning some delimiting factors perceived as being facilitating or aggravating for the leadership in the handling of hurricane Gudrun and the collapse of the European Highway 6 in Munkedal. A lesser aim of the study was to connect this study's results to Ronthy’s (2006) theory of leadership intelligence. The basis for this study consisted mainly of how the management personnel in the rescue organization experienced these events, which the author got acquainted to through seven semi-structured interviews. Of those interviewed were six men and one woman, and the age distribution ranged from 40 to 65 years. All participants were well experienced in crisis management with at least ten years of work experience. Collected data were analyzed by thematic analysis. The strengths of leadership that emerged from the study was the importance of having a common objective, well-defined roles, experience, common structure, the opportunity to distance oneself, that the organizations were in place, and personnel replacing available. Difficulties with respect to leadership, as noted, was that the participants were faced with unfamiliar situations, uncertainties, conflicts, emotional impact, and that there could be problems to meet basic needs. The results also showed the many demands made on the leaders, such as expertise and social skills such as humility and ability to produce harmony and trust among employees. Finally, the results showed the importance of continued training and the professional development needs of the leaders who are working in crisis management organizations, which should be considered for future events that require a long-term management work.
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Åström, Gustav, and Carl-Magnus Jonsson. "Riskuppfattning och krisberedskap bland personal på gymnasieskolor." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-951.
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The study examines risk perception and crisis preparedness among personnel at high-schools. The focus is set on teachers and leaders at four high-schools in Örebro municipality, Sweden. The purpose of the study is to examine crisis preparedness and identify factors which influences risk perception and crisis preparedness. The survey consisted of a questionnaire which was completed by 95 respondents. The results show that better information about the crisis preparedness in the schools is needed. Further education is also required, as two thirds of the respondents states that they have not received any training in crisis preparedness. Having personal crisis experience increases the awareness of risks. Being a leader increases both risk perception and the judgement of crisis preparedness of the school.
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Gjelsten, Craig A. "Homeland security planning for urban area schools." Thesis, Registration and login required, 2008. https://www.hsdl.org/homesec/docs/theses/08Mar_Gjelsten.pdf&code=0b11819a26de4946f5547907991d6aad.
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CARLSSON, FANNY, and GUSTAV MELANDER. "Risk and Vulnerability Analysis Management for Increased Crisis Preparedness and Resilience : A Qualitative Case Study on the Importance of a Systematized Workflow within the Swedish Healthcare." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-301283.
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Risk and vulnerability analysis (RVA) is a widely used method to assess an organization's threat situation. Certain actors are obliged by law to perform the analysis to contribute to a national threat assessment. Among these are actors in the healthcare system. This study aims to understand how a systematized workflow for RVA can increase crisis preparedness and resilience within Swedish healthcare. In this context, a systematized workflow is defined as a systematic and uniform method within a designated digital tool to facilitate the analysis. To understand how a systematized workflow could increase crisis preparedness and resilience, four semi-structured interviews were held with knowledgeable people within the area from different levels of the national risk and vulnerability chain. Further recurring meetings with people directly involved in such improvemenet work from AFRY were held, along with a review of existing literature. The result shows several challenges regarding RVA-related work; it is time-consuming, complex, resource-intensive, and lacks proper guidance in how it should be done. It shows a need for a better process, both in how they are performed and how the results are analyzed. It is concluded that a systematized workflow for risk and vulnerability analysis could increase crisis preparedness and resilience within Swedish healthcare. Having a designated tool with a set process, clear instructions, definitions, and guidelines would make RVAs easier to conduct and generate better outcomes regarding several aspects. Identifying essential dependencies would be facilitated for actors within the healthcare sector, which forms the basis to sustain those dependencies if a crisis occurs. Further, uniformly structured results would facilitate the analysis of results to make a nationwide risk assessment. In turn, this would probably increase crisis preparedness and resilience within the healthcare sector and several others.Risk och sårbarhetsanalyser (RSA) är en utbredd metod för att värdera en organisations hotbild. Vissa aktörer är skyldiga enligt lag att genomföra analysen för att bidra till en nationell sammanställning av landets risker, varav skjukhussystemet är en av dessa. Denna studie ämnar att förstå hur ett systematiskt arbetsflöde för RSA kan bidra till ökad krisberedskap och resiliens inom svensk sjukvård. Genom denna rapport definieras ett systematiskt arbetssätt som en systematiserad och enhetlig metod i ett dedikerat digitalt verktyg för att underlätta analysen. För att förstå hur ett systematiserat arbetssätt kan öka krisberedskap och resiliens har fyra semistrukturerade intervjuer hållits med sakkunniga personer inom området. Dessa har varit från olika nivåer inom den nationella risk- och sårbarbetsanalyskedjan. Vidare har återkommande möten genomförts med människor som varit direkt involverade i denna typ av förbättringsarbeten från AFRY, tillika en granskning av befintlig litteratur. Resultaten från studien visar på flera svårigheter rörande RSA-arbete - det är tidskrävande, komplext, resursintensivt, och saknar tydlig vägledning i hur arbetet ska utföras. Dessutom visar resultaten ett behov av bättre arbetsprocesser, både rörande hur analyserna ska genomföras samt hur resultaten ska analyseras. De slutsatser som har kunnat dras är att ett systematiserat arbetssätt för risk- och sårbarhetsanalyser skulle kunna bidra till en ökad krisberedskap och resiliens inom svensk sjukvård. Genom att ha ett dedikerat verktyg med en satt process, tydliga instruktioner, definitioner och riktlinjer hade genomförandet av en RSA underlättats samt gett bättre resultat inom ytterligare områden. Att identifiera kritiska beroenden hade förenklats för aktörer inom sjukvården, vilket formar grunden till att upprätthålla dem vid en kris. Vidare hade enhetligt strukturerade resultat underlättat analysen av resultaten för att göra ett nationell riskbedömning. Detta i sin tur hade trolien lett till ökad krisberedskap och resiliens inte endast inom sjukvården, utan även inom andra sektorer.
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Tućan, Oldgren Hanna. "Lesson learned? : A study of Sweden’s post-crisis learning after the fire in Västmanland 2014." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-434278.
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The world is facing an increase in natural disasters due to climate change, and Sweden is no exception. In the past 10 years Sweden has endured two large forest fires which devastated both land and property and which had huge financial impacts on society. Learning from such disasters is an important task for the crisis management system since learning is vital to be able to both prevent, prepare for, and manage new disasters. By conducting a qualitative in-depth analysis of the post-crisis learning process after the forest fire in 2014, this study aims to examine how actors learn from disasters as well as provide insight into the post-crisis organisational learning process in general. The actions of the Swedish Government and Parliament is evaluated by linking organisational learning to policy change, in such that for learning in the post-crisis management to have happened, the actor needs to have both identified lessons from the disaster, as well as implemented these into policy. In this study a text analysis is conducted on the two inquiries ordered by the Government after the fire to determine the “lessons identified”, and a plethora of government documents is analysed to ascertain whether the lessons identified have been acted upon and implemented into policy. It was found that the inquiries identified many valuable lessons, and that the authorities in most cases had implemented, or tried to implement, the lessons into policy. However, the protracted process of implementation, which led to some measures not being fully implemented until 2021, allowed new fires to occur before the issues were remedied. It is therefore argued that the efficiency of the Swedish Government’s post-crisis learning process should perhaps be questioned.
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Wang, Ruoqi. "“Online Participation Art Strategy” : Design for supporting students' wellbeing in crises times." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-104751.
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Online learning in the present circumstances of the pandemic is unique, unlike common digital learning situations, raises a number of concerns. University students might struggle with adjustment and feel discouraged by changes, as conventional socializing in class is their major loss in online learning. Students should continue to learn, and schools have gone to great lengths to transfer educational content into the digital world, not just online teaching and delivery methods, but also support the students' wellbeing. The project created a framework for students’ wellbeing support, online learning in higher education and crisis preparedness. Moreover, the project used several research methods to collect and analyze data, and design methods to treat and develop ideation. The resulting project is called the ‘Online participation Art Strategy’. Based on the insights that ‘enhancing online learning by enhancing online participation’, the project provides educational materials in the form of campaign design and graphic design, to enhance online participation and thereby support the wellbeing of students.Online presentation
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Persson, Ing-Marie. "Krislärande – konfliktfylld anpassning : Pedagogik för samverkan inför samhällskriser." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-127986.
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A societal crisis is an emergency that affects many people and large parts of society, threatening life, health, safety and basic values. In a societal crisis, there is a need for coordination between various bodies in the society. Coordination in societal crises has previously been studied mainly from a management perspective. Learning perspectives have been studied to a lesser extent. The main purpose of this thesis is to increase knowledge about the conditions for developing consensus and establish a common understanding of synergy-effects, a surplus value, for knowledge meetings between individuals from different organizations when they cooperate in the emergency management system. The study seeks to understand to the following questions: 1) What images and ideas do participants bring into the coordination group about societal crisis, how have they developed and changed? 2) How do the participants act when they have different pictures and meet? 3) Can the basic ideas of the research circle be used for knowledge building at knowledge meetings in the emergency management-system? 4) Can the basic ideas of the research circle be used to develop consensus and establish a common understanding of synergy-effects before societal crises happen? The main study consists of three case studies in three different-sized municipalities. It is based on 36 semi-structured interviews with participants in local crisis management coordination groups, observations during exercises and meetings, document studies and an experiment with the so-called knowledge meeting. The results are compared with complementary studies from two knowledge meetings and two coordination exercises based on observation, questionnaires and evaluations. The individuals, organizations, and structures have been identified as frame factors for coordination groups. The results show that the participants have different images of societal crisis and that coordination is a time-consuming approach requiring cross-perspective learning, interaction, as well as dialogue and reflection skills. The participants eventually develop their crisis learning, i.e. conflict-filled adaptation. A system's opened nature is important for individual learning.
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Kramešová, Petra. "Analýza krizové připravenosti organizace působící v oboru školství." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-76172.
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The content of this thesis is an analysis of crisis preparedness organizations in the field of education. It consists of a theoretical - methodological part and a practical part. The theoretical part discusses the specifics and peculiarities of crisis management, and analyzes the objectives and nature of crisis preparedness organizations of this type. The practical part presents the current research shows the strengths and weaknesses, as well as the threats and opportunities, which significantly limits the status and level of crisis preparedness of schools surveyed. The penultimate section focuses on the design methodology to ensure crisis preparedness in schools. Conclusion then summarizes and evaluates the investigation. For the sake of better illustration is the work of the Annex attached to the issue more closely.
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Köhler, Elias, and Robin Sundius. "Den komplicerade relationen mellan resiliens och målstyrning : En kvalitativ fallstudie i svenska kommuner." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-139964.
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Bakgrund: I Sverige har den offentliga sektorn till följd av New Public Management-vågen som sköljde in över landet i början på 80-talet i stor utsträckning valt använda sig av målstyrning, vilken syftar till att styra verksamheten utifrån mål. Samtidigt skedde en systematisk nedmontering av det svenska civilförsvaret och med det också en minskad förmåga att hantera kriser, då det till stor del varit civilförsvarets uppgift tidigare. Idag, drygt 30 år senare, är krishantering återigen på agendan hos kommunerna och ämnet aktualiseras av de tragiska händelser som skett på senare tid så som branden i Västmanland 2014 och terrordådet i Stockholm 2017 den 7/4. Kommunerna ska arbeta för att minska sårbarheten samtidigt som de använder målstyrning som har ett annat ursprungligt syfte än det närmsta ideologiska hos kommunerna. Syfte: Syftet med studien blir därmed att få en ökad förståelse av hur relationen mellan resiliens och målstyrning i svenska kommuner fungerar, samt att identifiera förmågor vilka möjliggör ett funktionellt förhållande Metod: Det här är en kvalitativ studie genomförd med hjälp av fallstudier av två svenska kommuner. Den bygger på sju semistrukturerade intervjuer, varav två expertintervjuer - en hos den större kommunen och fyra hos den mindre kommunen. Studien har en induktiv ansats och utgår därmed ifrån empirin. Slutsats: Studien visar att det finns två sidor av relationen. En där klassiska målstyrningen fungerar bra för det förberedande arbetet mot resiliens. Den andra sidan av relationen visar att klassisk målstyrning inte fungerar fullt ut, utan kräver viss anpassning. För att relationen ska fungera krävs istället något som författarna benämner ”resilient styrning”, vilken bygger på flexibla ”insatsmål” och att organisationen innehar vissa förmågor som erhålls med hjälp av bl.a. övningar och utbildningar.Background: The New Public Management wave swept over Sweden during the 80’s, and with it came the introduction of Management by Objectives in the Swedish municipalities, a management method that they still use. During the same time Sweden began to dismantle its civil defence, which prior to the dismantling were the ones given the task of crisis-management and the preparations of it. Now the responsibilities fall on the municipalities in Sweden to address the matter of crisis-management and preparation of crisis, regulated by certain laws. This subject is tragically being actualised by events such as the big fire in Västmanland 2014 and the act of terror in Stockholm the 7/4 2017, events that demand that the municipalities are prepared for the crisis and able to handle them, and therefore continue their function. Aim: The aim of the thesis is to increase the understanding of the relationship between management by objectives and resilience, as well as identifying skills that are needed to maintain it. Methodology: This is a qualitative case-study within two municipalities in Sweden which is built upon seven semi-structured interviews, whereas two of them are expert- interviews, four are made in a smaller municipality and one in a big municipality. The thesis has an inductive approach and is therefore build upon empirical findings. Conclusion: The thesis concludes that there are two sides of the relationship. One where classical management by objectives functions well, regarding the initial work needed for becoming a more resilient organization. However, it doesn’t work at later stages since it’s impossible to set the goals in a crisis beforehand. Therefore, the authors propose what they name “resilient management”, which is built upon “operation objectives” that requires certain skills from the organisation that are acquired by, for example, practising. With this proposed method, the relationship can be maintained but somewhat altered.
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Strandh, Veronica. "Responding to Terrorist Attacks on Rail Bound Traffic : Challenges for Inter-organizational Collaboration." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-107194.
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Contemporary terrorism is becoming increasingly indiscriminate, and rail bound traffic appears to be vulnerable and at high risk for terrorist attacks. An attack targeting a train or subway system can have enormous implications, both in terms of human suffering and long-term societal consequences. This dissertation aims to analyze how public and private organizations prepare for and respond to crises emanating from terrorism targeting rail bound traffic. It also examines different practices, networks and ideas related to interorganizational collaboration. Contemporary research emphasizes the importance and advantages of collaborative action in crisis management, and the idea of inter-organizational collaboration is also embedded in policy documents and has support among practitioners. Despite this, interorganizational collaboration often turns out to be difficult in practice, and it stands out as a critical factor in many crisis situations. Hence, it is crucial to identify and better understand the challenges associated with interorganizational collaboration in the context of terrorist-induced crises. This dissertation is a contribution to this endeavor. In order to capture the inherent complexity of the topic this dissertation combines and merges literature from three research fields: crisis management research, disaster medicine research and terrorism studies. The dissertation examines international experiences of terrorist attacks directed against rail bound traffic. It identifies the way in which attacks have changed over time and analyzes the main challenges of providing pre-hospital care following a mass-casualty attack. In addition, Sweden is used to provide empirical focus in an analysis of preparedness. Relying on scenario-based interviews with central crisis management actors and actors from rail bound traffic, current preparedness practices for responding to a multi-site terrorist attack on rail bound traffic in Sweden is analyzed. The research shows that both public and private organizations have developed risk awareness about terrorist-induced crises. However, their preparedness practices are characterized by significant variations and substantial uncertainty. Scare resources are a critical factor, and actors find it difficult to invest in preparedness for seldom-occurring crises. This difficulty is accentuated by the fact that no major mass-casualty attack has taken place in Sweden. A terrorist attack differs from a routine event and poses new and different challenges for inter-organizational collaboration. A large number of organizations are supposed to work together under severe time constraints, and their work can be delayed by particular security concerns. It is assumed that rail bound traffic actors engage in collaborative crisis management; however, there appear to be few mechanisms to prepare them, in a systematic way, for managing this particular type of crisis. Among actors, inter-organizational collaboration is understood primarily from a normative view rather than from the point of view of its practical meaning. As a consequence, it is difficult to turn risk awareness and a commitment to working together into actual practical action. In addition, collaboration between different levels in the crisis management system is particularly challenging. This dissertation also identifies a tension between viewing crisis management as an example of policy-as-usual or from a crises-as-exceptions perspective.
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Stenfors, Jonas, and Michael Eriksson. "Från risk till hemberedskap : En litteraturstudie kring hur offentlig förvaltnings kommunikationer bidrar till hushållens hemberedskap." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap (from 2013), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-78074.
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Då det svenska omvärldsläget de senaste tio åren blivit sämre till följd av främst Rysslands agerande samt att samhället påfrestats av kriser, likt flyktingkrisen 2015, har bidragit till att totalförsvaret ska återtas. En viktig del av samhällets motståndskraft inom totalförsvaret är att hushåll innehar en rekommenderad hemberedskap för att klara sig självförsörjande en viss tid. Trots en kommunicerad omvärldsbild, ny nationell säkerhetsstrategi och informationskampanjer visar Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Beredskaps (MSB) mätningar att mindre än hälften av hushållen innehar en rekommenderad hemberedskap.Syftet med denna systematiska litteraturstudie är att undersöka vad offentlig förvaltnings informations- och kommunikationsstrategier behöver ta hänsyn till under förutsägelse- och varningsskedet för att effektivt uppmuntra hushåll till att inneha en hemberedskap enligt statens rekommendation.Denna undersökning har endast nyttjat granskade vetenskapliga artiklar som identifierats genom en sökstrategi i databaserna Onesearch, Scopus och PAIS. Av 82st funna artiklar har 8st inkluderats i denna undersökning. Då fältet för denna undersökning är brett har en tvärvetenskaplig ansats tagits, detta innebär att hänsyn till olika forskningstraditioner fått göras i analysen. Analysen har genomförts genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av funna artiklar. Denna analys har gett oss ett resultat bestående av fyra huvudkategorier – Avsändare, Mottagare, Målgrupp samt Risk- och krisinformation.Som ytterligare hjälp att tolka resultatet för att finna hur hushåll motiveras nyttjas teorierna ”Relational theory of risk” och ”Protection motivation theory” för att reflektera över resultatet.Resultatet påvisar att den offentliga förvaltningens kommunikations- och informationsstrategier behöver ta hänsyn till att reviderade och aktuella planverk inom förvaltningen är kända på alla nivåer som kommunikations- och informationsstrategierna utgår ifrån. Strategierna behöver vidare utgå från att målgrupperna som ska nås av informationen är kända och att budskapen är anpassade för dem och den aktuella situationen. Den offentliga förvaltningen behöver tillse att risk- och kriskommunikation sker kontinuerligt så att hemberedskapen upprätthålls och att samhällets motståndskraft är tillräckligt hög för att stå rustad för en oförutsedd kris över tiden.Staten, regioner och kommuner behöver tillse att tillräcklig kunskap och riskmedvetenhet finns i samhället kring hemberedskapen genom kampanjer och att utveckla utbildningsplaner inom grundskola och gymnasium för att en majoritet av allmänheten ska motiveras att inneha en hemberedskap enligt gällande rekommendation.For the last ten years the security situation has deteriorated in Sweden’s surroundings. Swedish society has also dealt with crisis such as the refugee crisis during 2015. To cope with this new situation, the Swedish parliament decided in 2015 to reinforce Swedish resilience toward crisis and armed conflict. An important part of this decision was to increase resilience within society. A major part of the society resilience is that households are prepared to be self-dependent a certain amount of time. However, even though authorities have communicated the new security situation, established a new national security strategy, and released information campaigns, public polls show that less than half of the population has a household preparedness according to the authority’s recommendations.The aim of this systematic review is to investigate which focus areas authority’s information and communication strategies need to address during the prediction and warning phase to effectively encourage households to have a preparedness according to its recommendation.The systematic review has only used peer review articles that has been identified through a systematic search within the databases Onesearch, Scopus and PAIS. The analysis of the articles has taken an interdisciplinary approach which means that we must acknowledge and adapt to the fact that results from the different articles could be influenced by different science traditions. The analysis consists of a qualitative content analysis of the discovered articles. These analyses have shown four main categories, Sender of information, the Recipient, Targeted groups for the communication and the Risk and crisis communication.As additional support in the interpretation of the results we have used the Relational theory of risk and the Protection motivation theory.The result shows that the government, authorities, counties, and municipalities need to see that the level of knowledge and risk awareness needed among the public regarding household preparedness and its importance for the resilience within society is reached. This can be accomplished by information campaigns and through the educational system to make sure that a majority of the public is motivated to obtain a household preparedness according to recommendations.
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Westerberg, Oskar. "Evakueringsstrategier vid skogsbrand : En teoretisk tillnärmning till massevakuering vid skogsbränder i Sverige." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-85005.
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Sverige är, och har varit, relativt skonat ifrån personskador förknippat med skogsbränder och sett ur ett internationellt perspektiv är det få skogsbränder som har tvingat människor att lämna sina hem. Med ett varmare klimat och en förtätning av tätorter kan frekvensen av händelser som kräver evakuering som riskhanteringsmetod komma att öka i olika delar av landet. Litteratur som berör ämnet ur ett svenskt perspektiv är ytterst begränsat och det finns ett behov att undersöka hur evakuering vid skogsbränder hanteras, eller inte hanteras i Sverige. Syftet med studien är således att studera Sveriges skogsbrandshantering när det kommer till evakuering. Detta inkluderar den akuta hanteringen vid skogsbränder samt det långsiktiga arbetet med förberedelser inför en evakuering. Målsättningen är att jämföra den svenska hanteringen med internationell forskning och se vilka potentiella förbättringar som skulle kunna implementeras i Sverige. Studien genomförs med kvalitativ studiedesign och data inhämtas med semistrukturerade intervjuer samt med en kompletterade litteraturöversikt. Det insamlande datamaterialet behandlas med en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet av kartläggningen och analysen tyder på att kunskapen och förmågan att genomföra en evakuering vid skogsbrand är bristfällig. Resultatet indikerar att det finns behov för att vidta åtgärder, framför allt förebyggande åtgärder, för att reducera de osäkerheter som idag existerar vid en evakuering. Det argumenteras för att det förebyggande arbetet bör utgå från en risk- och sårbarhetsanalys, där risker och sårbarheter identifieras och bedöms utifrån de lokala förutsättningarna. Risk- och sårbarhetsanalysen bör resultera en handlingsplan med åtgärdsförslag i förhållande till styrdokument, resursbehov samt bör identifiera kunskapsluckor och behov av utbildning och övning för alla inblandande i processen.Sweden is, and has been, relatively spared from injuries associated with wildfires, as seen in global perspective, and wildfires that have required evacuation as a risk management strategy are relatively few. As a result of global warming and a densification of urban areas, the frequency of incidents that could require evacuation as a risk management method may increase in different parts of the country. Literature on the subject is limited from a Swedish perspective and there is a need to examine how evacuation in the event of wildfires is managed in Sweden. The aim of the study is to examine Sweden's wildfire management when it comes to evacuation. This includes the more urgent handling of wildfires as well as the long-term preventive work with evacuation mitigation. The aim is to compare risk management from a Swedish perspective with international research and identify potential improvements that could be implemented in Sweden. The chosen method is semi-structured interviews with a supplemented literature review. The collected data material is treated with a qualitative content analysis. The result of the analysis indicates that the knowledge and ability to carry out an evacuation in the event of a wildfire is inadequate. The results indicate that there is a need to take preventive measures to reduce the uncertainties that are currently associated with an evacuation from wildfire. Preventive measures should be based on a risk and vulnerability analysis, where risks and vulnerabilities are identified, and probability and consequence are assessed based on the local conditions. The risk and vulnerability analysis should result in a management plan with proposed measures, related to policies, resources, and identify gaps in knowledge and the need for education and training for everyone involved in the process.
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Olsson, Dahl Sofie. "Katastrofberedskap : En samverkans- och kommunikationsfråga för kulturarvet." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-235367.
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The aim of this masters thesis, based on discourse analysis and organization theory, is to study how individuals in different Swedish cultural organizations- and agencys are working with disaster preparedness. The purpose of this is to examine whether organizational structures affect different persons work, cooperation and practical application concerning disaster preparedness in collaboration with both external and internal organizations. The research shows that disaster preparedness are affected by priority issues as well as financial resources causing consequences for future work concerning this kind of issues. Another problem which is also examined and discussed in this thesis are the problematic approach to personal initiative which today is the leading operation for the organizations to deal with disaster preparedness instead of creating professional titles for the persons handles these complex issues.
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Hansson, Mikael, and Jonas Åberg. "Krisberedskapsprocessen, samverkan mellan nivåer och utspridd ansvarsfördelning : En deskriptiv fallstudie av krisberedskap på regional och lokal nivå." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-73600.
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Syftet med uppsatsen är att utifrån Sveriges förändrade agenda avseende samhällets beredskap att hantera kriser, studera krisberedskapsprocessen på regional och lokal nivå genom informantintervjuer av nyckelbefattningar inom länsstyrelse och kommun. Uppsatsen svarar genom en deskriptiv fallstudie med kvalitativ metod av länsstyrelser och kommuner på frågeställningarna: Hur genomförs den komplexa krisberedskapsprocessen vid regional och lokal nivå samt vilket behov av stöd kräver krisberedskapsprocessen? I studien sammanställs en empirisk krisberedskapsprocess vilken jämförts med den normativa krisberedskapsprocesen genom att använda Lundqvists (1992) implementeringsteori baserad på Förstå, Kan, Vill. Studiens mest signifikanta resultat är att en väl utvecklad samverkan har identifierats mellan aktörer på regional och lokal nivå. Studien har funnit viss liknelse mellan den empiriska krisberedskapsprocessen och Lundqvists Policyprocessens stadier med förvaltningens huvuduppgifter. Även om informanterna upplever vissa problem inom krisberedskapen, finner vi att aktörerna genom ett stort engagemang anses kunna hantera krisberedskapsprocessen.The purpose of this essay is to examine the crisis management process in the context of Sweden’s changed agenda in terms of community preparedness to crisis management. The study is conducted through interviews with key positions at county governments and municipalities. Through a descriptive case study using a qualitative method the essay answers the following question: How is the complex crisis management process performed at county and local level and what requirements of support does the crisis management process demand? The results from the interviews were compiled to an empirical crisis management process and with help of Lundqvist´s (1992) implementation theory based on Understand, Can, Will, compared to the normative crisis management process. The most significant conclusion of the essay is a well evolved collaboration has been identified in the relation between actors at regional and local level. The study has found certain parables between the empirical crisis management process and Lundqvist´s Policy process stages with main tasks in administration. Even though the informants experience some problem within the crisis management, we find that the actors due to a great dedication are able to handle the crisis management.
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Wallin, Lämsä Camilla, and Marie-Louise Joyce. ""En kugge i krigsapparaten" : Bibliotekens roll i svensk kris- och krigsberedskap." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-414087.
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In this thesis we explore the idea presented in the Swedish National Library Strategy (2019) to tie the public libraries closer to the nation’s total defense system. The purpose of the study has been to understand which problem this idea was formulated as a solution to and how the suggestion is problematized by information science professionals, using critical discourse analysis methods developed by Carol Bacchi. Our material consists of the finalized National Library Strategy, its first draft from 2018, and the referral responses by various interested parties, as well as interviews with 15 public librarians, library directors, and scholars of information science. We discuss how the psychological defense relates to the librarian’s statutory duty to facilitate citizen participation in deliberative democracy and to counteract misinformation. We also ask how the library professions might be affected by an active involvement in future civil defense efforts. Our results show that the National Library Strategy construes the idea as a security problem by portraying our society as affected by growing political tensions, rapidly spread misinformation, and chaos, making the total defense suggestion into a meaningful solution. In our interviews with information professionals, some respondents viewed the total defense as an extension of their work to advocate democracy and intellectual freedom, whereas others perceived ethical tensions and incongruity between the two missions, referring to traditional library ideals of political neutrality and independence. All respondents based their reflections of the total defense idea on the importance of deliberative democracy and the library’s prominent place in promoting it, but with differing perspectives of its relationship to the total defense system as either problematic or emblematic. Drawing on these results, we argue that a total defense mission is compatible with librarians’ professional ethics and statutory democracy advocacy, as long as libraries can continue to foster free opinion formation and unbiased information evaluation independent from state interests during wartime and times of crisis. This is a two years master's thesis in library and information science.
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Johansson, Frida. "Krisberedskap - en angelägenhet för alla? : En kvantitativ studie om högskolestudenters självskattade kunskap och medvetenhet om kris och krisberedskap." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-39276.
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Krisberedskap är ett aktuellt ämne som ur individperspektiv främst rör den egna förmågan att tillgodose sina grundläggande behov av vatten, värme, mat, kommunikation och medicin i minst 7 dygn om en kris inträffar. Detta ställer krav på individers medvetenhet och kunskap om kris och krisberedskap. Det saknas forskning på området och de studier som finns visar att medvetenheten och kunskapen är låg. Studiens syfte är att undersöka högskolestudenters oro för att en kris ska inträffa, deras kunskap och medvetenhet om kris och krisberedskap samt vilken beredskap studenter har att hantera en kris och eventuella samband mellan dessa. En kvantitativ enkätstudie genomfördes. Resultatet visar att studenternas medvetenhet och kunskap om kris och krisberedskap är låg. Studenterna har störst oro för att en terroristattack ska ske och anser det troligt att en terroristattack kan inträffa inom fem år. Generellt är dock studenternas oro för att en kris ska inträffa låg. T-test genomfördes för att undersöka eventuella samband och skillnader i krisberedskap utifrån grad av kunskap och medvetenhet. Inga signifikanta samband eller skillnader påvisades. Studiens resultat diskuteras i relation till teorierna Health belief model och Theory of planned behaviour. Då kris och krisberedskap är ett aktuellt men obeforskat ämne rekommenderas vidare studier.
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Tjäder, Zacharias. "Preparing for Disasters -Experiences of collaborative governance & coordination in Dhaka City, Bangladesh." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-109501.
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Dhaka city and Bangladesh is unique in many ways. The country profile is most definitely an interesting case to study through the lenses of disaster management. In this thesis a framework or theories encompassing collaborative governance and coordination crisis- management networks is applied to the challenging context of Bangladesh. The study looks at themes such as ‘history of conflicts’, ‘trust building’, ‘power imbalances’, ‘comprehensive overview’ and crisis network variables like ‘complexity’ and ‘familiarity‘. The theory block is foremost gathered from Michael Hillyard, Naim Kapucu and Alison Gash and Chris Ansell. The study is based on interviews from individuals representing different types of organizations that have connections to coordination avenues. A thematic analysis approach is used to apply the theories on the empirics. Three research questions encapsulates the core of the study; what components stimulate collaborative governance theoretically and how does part- takers of disaster management in Dhaka perceive collaborative governance and coordination under disaster preparedness? Finally, how does the presented theories conform to the practises focused on coordination and collaborative governance when preparing for disasters in Dhaka, Bangladesh? The study finds that the establishment of coordination avenues are evident in Dhaka and that the development of various parts of coordination activities is moving rather strong. The study show that many organizations are project- based in Dhaka and that competition over intellectual property and funding can work in both directions for coordination and collaborative governance. Either lowering the ambition for collaborations or increasing it. The study also confirms findings of previous coordination studies in Bangladesh that suggest that the institutional approach is very much individualistic which can, to some degree, hamper coordination activities. The study suggest that the system for coordination and its reach appears to be more established horizontally on a strategic level than on the vertical level. Coordination activities and collaborative governance also operates simultaneously in Dhaka, both vertically and horizontally. In closure the experiences of DM- employees in Dhaka suggest that earthquakes and droughts, or combinations of quakes and flooding may pose a serious challenge to the disaster management relief resources of Dhaka city.
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Burgin, Rick A. "A numeric scorecard assessing the mental health preparedness for large-scale crises at college and university campuses| A Delphi study." Thesis, Dallas Baptist University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3560035.
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Large-scale crises continue to surprise, overwhelm, and shatter college and university campuses. While the devastation to physical plants and persons is often evident and is addressed with crisis management plans, the number of emotional casualties left in the wake of these large-scale crises may not be apparent and are often not addressed with mental health preparedness plans. As a result, there is a growing sentiment that campuses should investigate and document detailed mental health preparedness plans that would address the readiness of their institutions to meet the mental health needs of their faculty, students, and staff should a large-scale crisis impact their campus. In addition, it has been recognized that an instrument is needed to help colleges and universities assess the mental health preparedness of their campuses. Utilizing a Delphi methodology, this four round Delphi study (with 34 experts from 17 states with combined expertise in mental health and higher education) adapted the Mental Health All-Hazards Disaster Planning Guidance (2003), written for state and local mental health agencies, to create a mental health preparedness plan for college and university campuses should a large-scale crisis occur. Utilizing the aforementioned mental health preparedness plan, this study also created an instrument, identified as a numeric scorecard, to help colleges and universities assess the mental health preparedness of their campuses should a large-scale crisis occur on their campus.
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Stark, Victoria. "Krishantering i förändring : Vad kan vi lära oss av U137 och Estoniakatastrofen." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Social Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2082.
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This study focus on decision makers in Swedish foreign and security politics with a special focus on two national crises. The crises that have been chosen for this study are the submarine U17 crisis and the shipwreck of the passenger ferry Estonia. The first crisis occurred in the fall of 1981 when the Swedish government accused the Soviet for violating Swedish territory with a Soviet submarine. The second crisis occurred in the fall of 1994 when Estonia, with over 900 people, ended up in a storm and the result of the shipwreck was that only 137 people were rescued.
The aims of the study are to analysis the Swedish crises preparedness and in the future develop and make it more effective. The thesis employs the following research questions to answer the purpose:
- How did the actors that were responsibility for the Swedish crises preparedness act when they found out about U137 and the shipwreck of Estonia to bother the best outcome?
- How did the final results of the crises preparedness in U137 and shipwreck of Estonia actually came out?
The method of the study is a type of an appraisal method that explains how you could evaluate a political decision. The results that I found in points that it is necessary to do more research in the subject area. None of the crises were handled very effective in crises preparedness way and in the future more coordination and collaboration with different public authority and private organisations is needed to meet the threat and the obstacles that a society today stands in front of.