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Organisational resilience and emergency management

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posted on 2023-05-19, 22:11 authored by Mees, B, McMurray, A, Chhetri, P
The concept of resilience figures prominently in discussions of disaster risk reduction, emergency management and community safety. Overwhelmingly, such discussions view resilience as a highly desirable characteristic of communities. Policies and practices of emergency services organisations imply that a major role of such organisations is to promote and foster community resilience. Yet there is little appreciation of the importance of resilience as a necessary characteristic of emergency services organisations. In this paper we argue that emergency services organisations need to address their own resilience issues in order to properly fulfil their community protection responsibilities. The concept of organisational resilience in relation to Australia's volunteer-based emergency services organisations is discussed and the importance of organisational climate and organisational culture in relation to organisational resilience is stressed.

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Publication title

The Australian Journal of Emergency Management

Volume

31

Pagination

38-43

ISSN

1324-1540

Department/School

TSBE

Publisher

Emergency Management Australia

Place of publication

Australia

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Copyright 2016 AJEM Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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Human capital issues

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