Using Case Work as a Pretest to Measure Crisis Leadership Preparedness

CRET: A Crisis Response Evaluation Tool to improve Crisis Preparedness

In recent years, crisis response has become cyberphysical in nature because of the increased use of computing technologies by the responders. As such, crisis preparedness requires objective evaluation of crisis response in addition to the traditional drills. This paper develops a generic Crisis Response Evaluation Tool (CRET) for off-line objective crisis response evaluation to improve prepared...

Games for Learning Cooperation at Work: the Case of Crisis Preparedness

In order to achieve crisis preparedness a number of approaches are combined including traditional training through courses and training material, coaching, simulated emergencies to recreate realistic working experiences, and structured debriefings to learn by reflecting on specific work experiences. Recently, Serious Games have also been proposed for this domain and experiments on their usage s...

Nurses' Preparedness for Disasters in a Crisis-stricken Country: A case study in Afghanistan in 2020

Introduction: Nurses play an important role in the hospital's affective response to accidents and disasters.  Assessing nurses' preparedness is the starting point for planning to improve and increase nurses' preparedness for disasters.  Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the preparedness of nurses of the 650-bed district hospital in Herat, Afghanistan in the face of disasters in 2020. ...

Leadership in a (permanent) crisis.

The current economic crisis is not just another rough spell. Today's mix of urgency, high stakes, and uncertainty will continue even after the recession ends. The immediate crisis--which we will get through with policy makers' expert technical adjustments--sets the stage for a sustained, or even permanent, crisis, a relentless series of challenges no one has encountered before. Instead of hunke...

Trump’s Zero-tolerance Policy: Would a Political Response to a Humanitarian Crisis Work?