scholarly journals Understanding the Collaborative Process and Its Effects on Perceived Outcomes during Emergency Response in China: From Perspectives of Local Government Sectors

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7605
Author(s):  
Pan Tang ◽  
Shiqi Shao ◽  
Dapeng Zhou ◽  
Huihua Hu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Joint Implementation ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Perceived Outcomes

In contemporary China, the rapidly urbanized cities are exposed to a broad range of natural and human-made emergencies, such as COVID-19. Responding to emergencies successfully requires widespread participation of local government sectors that engages in diversified collaboration behaviors across organizational boundaries for achieving sustainability. However, the multi-organizational collaborative process is highly dynamic and complex, as well as its outcomes are uncertain underlying the emergency response network. Examining characteristics of the collaborative process and exploring how collaborative behaviors local governmental sectors engaging in the impact their perceived outcomes is essential to understand how disastrous situations are addressed by collaborative efforts in emergency management. This research investigates diversified collaborative behaviors in emergency response and then examines this using a multi-dimensional model consisting of joint decision making, joint implementation, compromised autonomy, resource sharing, and trust building. We surveyed 148 local governments and their affiliated sectors in China in-depth understanding how collaborative processes contribute to perceived outcomes from perspectives of participating sectors in the context of a centralized political-administrative system. A structural equation model (SEM) is employed to encode multiple dimensions of the collaborative process, perceived outcomes, as well as their relationships. The empirical finding indicates that joint decision making and implementation positively affect the perceived outcomes significantly. The empirical results indicate that joint decision making and joint implementation affect perceived outcomes significantly. Instead, resource sharing and trust building do not affect the outcomes positively as expected. Additionally, compromised autonomy negatively affects the collaborative outcomes. We also discuss the institutional advantages for achieving successful outcomes in emergency management in China by reducing the degree of compromised autonomy. Our findings provide insight that can improve efforts to build and maintain a collaborative process to respond to emergencies.

Emergency management collaboration: A review and new collaboration cycle

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-68
Author(s):  
Corey Olszewski, BS ◽  
Laura Siebeneck, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Process Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Form Function ◽  
Collaboration Process ◽  
New Framework

Objective: The purpose of this article is to review the nature of collaborations in the field of emergency management and to propose a new cyclical framework that better reflects how collaborations form, function, and evolve throughout the collaboration process. Design: An extensive review of previous literature pertaining to the collaborative process was carried out in order to identify stages through which these collaborative relationships progress in the emergency management arena.Setting: This article focuses on the nature of emergency management collaborations at the local, state, and federal levels in the United States. Results: This article builds upon the previous literature pertaining to collaboration and offers a new framework which visualizes collaboration as a trust-building and outcome cycle which moves through four repeating phases: initiation, inclusion, execution, and evaluation.Conclusions: This cycle supports the continuous, sustained, and safe learning and sharing platform identified in the previous literature and offers an improved visualization that can be used to better prepare for, manage, and reset emergency management collaborations.

A Grid-Aware Emergency Response Model (G-AERM) for Disaster Management

2012 ◽  
pp. 252-267
Author(s):  
Eleana Asimakopoulou ◽  
Chimay J Anumba ◽  
Dino Bouchlaghem
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Response Model ◽  
Timely Manner ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Emergency Response Model

The emergency management community is working toward developments associated with the reduction of losses in lives, property and the environment caused by natural disasters. However, several limitations with the particular collaborative nature of current Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in use have been reported. In particular, how emergency management stakeholders within an ICT environment can bring together all their resources in a collaborative and timely manner so as to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of emergency response tasks. With this in mind, the authors describe the Grid-Aware Emergency Response Model (G-AERM) to make the best of functionality offered by emerging ICT to support intelligence in decision making toward a more effective and efficient emergency response management.

Decision‐making training in local government emergency management

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Sinclair ◽  
Emma E.H. Doyle ◽  
David M. Johnston ◽  
Douglas Paton
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Emergency Operations ◽  
Emergency Managers ◽  
Decision Making Styles ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Survey Approach

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to contribute information and recommendations that could better equip emergency managers to prepare for and respond to emergencies and disasters, with a focus on improving their decision‐making capabilities during response.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire‐based survey approach was used in this research and 48 different local government organisations participated. These results were examined in conjunction with contemporary emergency management decision‐making literature. A combination of closed and open ended questions was used, enabling qualitative and quantitative analysis.FindingsResults suggest that while there is information available about decision making, not all emergency managers are aware of the existence of this information or understand its relevance to emergency management. It is likely that those who did have a comprehensive understanding of decision making had gained this knowledge through non‐emergency management‐related courses. In total, 71 percent of participants said they would be interested in receiving more support regarding training and practice for decision making in Emergency Operations Centres.Originality/valueA wide body of research has investigated decision‐making styles. However, this paper shows that in the local government emergency management sector there is little awareness of the understanding of the different decision‐making approaches. In addition, for those organisations surveyed, there is a great desire for further training and practice in decision making. It is thus vital that this need is addressed, to further improve the future response of these organisations to emergencies.

A Grid-Aware Emergency Response Model (G-AERM) for Disaster Management

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-55
Author(s):  
Eleana Asimakopoulou ◽  
Chimay J Anumba ◽  
Dino Bouchlaghem
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Response Model ◽  
Timely Manner ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
Emergency Response Model

The emergency management community is working toward developments associated with the reduction of losses in lives, property and the environment caused by natural disasters. However, several limitations with the particular collaborative nature of current Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in use have been reported. In particular, how emergency management stakeholders within an ICT environment can bring together all their resources in a collaborative and timely manner so as to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of emergency response tasks. With this in mind, the authors describe the Grid-Aware Emergency Response Model (G-AERM) to make the best of functionality offered by emerging ICT to support intelligence in decision making toward a more effective and efficient emergency response management.

Development of approaches to emergency management in conditions of limited energy supply of the zone of their localization

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Natalia Deyneko
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Special Equipment ◽  
Logical Model ◽  
Limited Energy ◽  
Response Measures

The solution of the problem of developing approaches to the management of the emergency prevention process in the conditions of limited energy supply of emergency response measures is considered. Within the framework of solving the problem, the process of emergency management in the conditions of limited energy supply is analyzed and the scheme of managerial influence on the process of spreading the emergency situation in the conditions of limited energy supply is developed. A structural and logical model of emergency management in conditions of limited energy supply has been developed. Developed a structural and logical model of emergency management in conditions of limited energy supply, which consists of twelve units. These are monitoring of the situation, identification of risks, notification and evacuation of people, search and identification of the danger of emergence and spread of emergency in conditions of limited energy supply, decision-making on the use of special equipment for electricity generation, preparatory measures, information control measures. measures in case of spread of danger, localization of sources of spread of danger, decision-making on recovery without quarantine regime in the region of hostilities, impact on the situation, analysis of the effectiveness of preventive measures and emergency prevention measures. The location of the units on six hierarchical levels, connected by logical connections, provides information on the state of the region in conditions of limited energy supply through the elements of the monitoring system and impact on the region through the system of performers, providing a continuous management process to minimize the consequences of emergency. The obtained results allow, using innovative information and technical methods of emergency prevention of such nature, to further form a modern method of emergency response in conditions of limited energy supply of emergency response measures, supplementing the above methods with an effective crisis management system. Key words: emergency situation, structural-logical model, conditions of limited energy supply.

scholarly journals Collaborative Planning and Shared Decision Making in Biosecurity Emergency Management

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Perry ◽  
Laws
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Collaborative Planning ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Robust Planning ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Robust planning and decision making processes are essential to manage biosecurity risks,particularly in emergency response situations that are highly complex, often contentious and canchange rapidly [...]

Integration and Improvement Research on Emergency Information Management and Response Capabilities for Local Government

2014 ◽  
Vol 687-691 ◽  
pp. 5093-5096
Author(s):  
Shu Juan Tu ◽  
Ling Yu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Emergency Planning ◽  
Basic Theory ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Improvement Strategies ◽  
The Status

Local government plays an important role in emergency management. The improvement of emergency management and emergency response of local government will benefit to improve the overall emergency management and response efficiency of government. Thus, the paper analyzed the existing emergency planning and its emergency policies to find out weakness in their response to emergency. With the basic theory of emergency management, the paper analyzed the status of emergency management of local government. Finally, the paper proposed improvement strategies to improve the effectiveness of emergency resources management of local government.

Emergency management decision-making during severe weather

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh A. Baumgart ◽  
Ellen J. Bass ◽  
Brenda Philips ◽  
Kevin Kloesel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Severe Weather ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Management Decision Making

scholarly journals Conversations About Death and Dying, End-of-Life Care Plans and Preferences Between Aging Parents and Adult Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 417-417
Author(s):  
Hyo Jung Lee ◽  
Jacobbina Jin Wen Ng
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Care Plans

Abstract This study aims to investigate whether attitude and perception on late-life death and dying, end-of-life care plans and preferences could be better understood from current values shared between aging parents and their adult children in the multi-cultural city-bound country, Singapore. We are in the process of interviewing 20 aging parent-adult child dyads. Up to date, six semi-structured interviews were completed and transcribed. We performed Content analysis to analyze the transcripts. Preliminary findings showed that both aging parents and adult children rarely discussed this issue, although parents had their own plans or preferences. The major barriers against open conversations about death and dying of aging parents include: the perception of not-yet time to talk about this issue (without knowing when the right time is) and tendency to have conversations about death in tandem with finances, but not death itself. Although specific end-of-life care plans or arrangements were not thought out thoroughly, aging parents expressed a high level of trust and reliance on close family members’ decisions regarding their end-of-life care. They tended to agree on joint decision-making process within family, even though adult children had no or unmatched ideas about their aging parents’ end-of-life wishes. This did not necessarily align with previous findings in Western countries, underscoring individuals’ control over their own death and dying process. Open conversation within family, family-involved advance care planning, or joint decision-making processes may be warranted to promote quality of life and death in older Singaporeans and well-being of their family members of all ages.

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