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New human capabilities in emergency and crisis management: from non-technical skills to creativity

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posted on 2023-05-20, 07:52 authored by Benjamin BrooksBenjamin Brooks, Steven CurninSteven Curnin, Christine Owen, Boldeman, J
Unprecedented future disaster events will require emergency managers to be creative in their thinking. The backbone of creativity is divergent thinking; cognitive thoughts that do not converge on one correct answer but diverge to a range of possible options. Preliminary research with emergency services organisations, not-for-profit organisations and the critical infrastructure sector identified an increase in creative output when personnel are given a set of constraints, both resources and context, in which to ‘think divergently’. Consequently, future challenges for decision-makers in emergency and crisis management is identifying when creativity is required and how to use constraints to enhance creativity when organisational cultures demand compliance. This paper provides an overview of creativity in the context of decision-making and what this means for future leaders in the sector.

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Publication title

The Australian Journal of Emergency Management

Volume

34

Issue

4

Pagination

23-30

ISSN

1324-1540

Department/School

Australian Maritime College

Publisher

Emergency Management Australia

Place of publication

Australia

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Copyright 2019 The Authors. 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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Expanding knowledge in human society

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