Findings From The Wildland Firefighters Human Factors Workshop
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Findings From The Wildland Firefighters Human Factors Workshop
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Author : Ted Putnam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Findings From The Wildland Firefighters Human Factors Workshop written by Ted Putnam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fire extinction categories.
Findings From The Wildland Firefighters Human Factors Workshop
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Release Date : 1995
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Using Social Science To Understand And Improve Wildland Fire Organizations
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Author : Gregory Larson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Using Social Science To Understand And Improve Wildland Fire Organizations written by Gregory Larson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Forest management categories.
The wildland fire community has spent the past decade trying to understand and account for the role of human factors in wildland fire organizations. Social research that is relevant to managing fire organizations can be found in disciplines such as social psychology, management, and communication. However, such research has been published primarily for scientific and business audiences, and much of the fire community has not been exposed to it. Here, we have compiled and organized knowledge from a variety of social science disciplines so that it can be used to improve organizational practices related to firefighter and public safety, to assess the effectiveness of safety campaigns, and to improve firefighter safety trainings. This annotated reading list summarizes approximately 270 books, articles, and online resources that address scientific and management concepts helpful for understanding the human side of fire management. The first section, Human Factors and Firefighting, introduces readers to key workshops and writings that led to the recognition that human factors are prime ingredients of firefighter safety. The second section, Foundations for Understanding Organizations, consists of social science research that provides a foundation for understanding organizational dynamics. This section includes readings on decision making and sensemaking, organizational culture, identification and identity, leadership and change, organizational learning, and teams and crews. The third section, Understanding Organizations in High Risk Contexts, explores organizations that deal regularly with risk, uncertainty and crisis. This section includes readings on risk and uncertainty, high reliability organizing, and crisis communication. The publication concludes with Internet resources available for those interested in the management of fire organizations.
Crew Cohesion Wildland Fire Transition And Fatalities
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Author : Jon J. Driessen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Crew Cohesion Wildland Fire Transition And Fatalities written by Jon J. Driessen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Wildfire fighters categories.
Describes the role played by crew cohesion in the deaths of firefighters in three firefighting tragedies: the Mann Gulch Fire, the South Canyon Fire, and the Thirtymile Fire. Two types of cohesion are involved, the cohesion within a crew (intracrew cohesion) and the cohesion among crews (intercrew cohesion). Cohesion is a way of describing how closely people feel they are tied to a group. Studies of field crews in the Forest Service have shown that the less cohesion crews had, the more likely they were to be involved in accidents. Meanwhile, studies of wildland firefighter fatalities during the 1990s have shown that nearly threefourths of the fatalities occurred when fires were making the transition from relatively small to relatively large fires, or shortly after they had become relatively large fires. The transition is often sudden, when it is described as a "blow up." Driessen recommends studies that would allow the different types of transition fires to be classified. This classification system would allow crew leaders and fire managers to communicate clearly when fires are making the transition from relatively small fires to relatively large fires. The studies would also identify tactics that successful crew leaders use to build the essential level of crew cohesion when fires are in transition.
Wildland Fire Research
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language : en
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Release Date : 1998
Wildland Fire Research written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fire prevention categories.
Human Factors Challenges In Emergency Management
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Author : Christine Owen
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-09-29
Human Factors Challenges In Emergency Management written by Christine Owen and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-29 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research that has been conducted within Australia, funded by the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre. The chapters source and contextualize their own research practice within the context of the international research literature. Therefore, while the research has occurred within Australia it will be of particular interest to scholars, students and practitioners in a number of other countries, particularly within the United States of America and in Europe. The fire and emergency services is a particularly large industry - in Australia alone it employs 250,000 personnel - yet there is very little by way of published human factors books addressing this sector directly. Emergency events frequently involve problems for which there may be unanticipated consequences and highly interdependent consequential effects. In short, emergency events are not necessarily as containable as may be work in other domains. As Karl Weick once commented, emergency events do not 'play by the rules'. This means that these research chapters tell us something about a potential future world of work that is highly dynamic, interdependent and for which improvisation and critical thinking and problem-solving are necessary pre-requisites. The discussions about individual and team performance will also be pertinent to others working in similar high-reliability, high-consequence domains. The chapters connect into an integrated body of work about individual and group performance and their limitations.
Why Great Leaders Don T Take Yes For An Answer
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Author : Michael A. Roberto
language : en
Publisher: Pearson Education
Release Date : 2005-06-06
Why Great Leaders Don T Take Yes For An Answer written by Michael A. Roberto and has been published by Pearson Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-06 with Business & Economics categories.
Harvard Business School's Michael Roberto draws on powerful decision-making case studies from every walk of life, showing how to promote honest, constructive dissent and skepticism; use it to improve decisions; and align organizations behind those decisions. Learn from disasters like the Space Shuttle Columbia and JFK's Bay of Pigs Invasion, from successes like Sid Caesar and Bill Parcells, from George W. Bush's decision-making after 9/11. Roberto complements his compelling case studies with extensive new research on executive decisionmaking. Discover how to test and probe a management team; when 'yes' means 'yes' and when it doesn't; and how to build real consensus that leads to action. Gain important new insights into managing teams, mitigating risk, promoting corporate ethics, and much more.
How Business Leaders Avoid Conflict Collection
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Author : Michael A. Roberto
language : en
Publisher: FT Press
Release Date : 2013-08-08
How Business Leaders Avoid Conflict Collection written by Michael A. Roberto and has been published by FT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-08 with Business & Economics categories.
Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer, Second Edition offers a powerful framework every leader can use to promote honest, constructive dissent and skepticism; test their assumptions; more thoroughly consider "best alternatives"; make better choices, and align organizations to act on their decisions. In this new edition, Roberto presents new cases from Google, Ford, Intuit, and others, plus expands coverage to more deeply illuminate his decision-making approach. Offering both positive and negative examples, he presents a well rounded view of how to determine when "yes" means "yes," when it doesn't, and what to do when it doesn't. Roberto explains why "good process entails the astute management of the social, political, and emotional aspects of decision making" -- in other words, why effective leaders are well served by carefully "deciding how to decide." ¿ Know What You Don’t Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen lays out the key skills and capabilities required to ensure that problems do not remain hidden in your organization. It explains how leaders can become effective problem finders, unearthing problems before they destroy an organization. The book explains how leaders can become an anthropologist, going out and observing how employees, customers, and suppliers actually behave. It then goes on to present how they can circumvent the gatekeepers, so they can go directly to the source to see and hear the raw data; hunt for patterns, including refining your individual and collective pattern recognition capability; "connect the dots" among issues that may initially seem unrelated, but in fact, have a great deal in common; give front-line employees training in a communication technique; encourage useful mistakes, including creating a "Red Pencil Award"; and watch the game film, where leaders reflect systematically on their own organization's conduct and performance, as well as on the behavior and performance of competitors.
Fire Management Notes
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Fire Management Notes written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Forest fires categories.
Burning Questions
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Burning Questions written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Forests and forestry categories.