scholarly journals Comparison of Crisis Management Systems in Poland and Slovakia

2020 ◽  
Vol 198 (4) ◽  
pp. 737-748
Author(s):  
Daniel Brezina

Natural disasters have a specific position in terms of threats to the life and health of citizens, the environment, and the property of municipalities in individual regions. Their negative consequences can affect a lot of people and disrupt the routine processes on a large area. Natural disasters mostly have negative effects on people, material values and nature. In the case of large-scale natural disasters, the functioning and stability of state systems may be compromised and impaired, including those in Poland and Slovakia.

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-343
Author(s):  
Kenji Watanabe

Among the lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake, there were a large number of new findings, including which preparations functioned as planned and which did not. Now that a year has elapsed since the earthquake disaster, the parties concerned need to reexamine those measures which are yet to be implemented since we should not see the same results after a large scale disaster in the future as those we saw in the past. In this JDR Special Issue on Business Continuity Plan (BCP), I tried to ask for papers not only from academia but also from business fields to make this issue practical and useful to be leveraged for our next steps in preparing for incoming disasters. As a result, this issue obtains papers from various fields from academia to financial businesses and also with several different approaches which includes actual real case studies. Many of papers in this issue focus on intangible part of business continuity activities that is different from the traditional disaster management approaches which have mainly focused on tangibles or hardware reinforcement against natural disasters. Recent wide-area disasters taught us the importance of intangibles and we should start discussions more in details with aspects such as corporate value, emergency transportation & logistics, training & exercises, funding arrangement, and management systems. I hope that discussions and insights in this issue will help our discussions and actions to move forward. Finally, I really thank the authors’ insightful contributions and the referees’ intensive professional advices to make this JDR Special Issue valuable to our society in preparing for incoming disasters.


Author(s):  
J. Kuokkanen ◽  
A Tiili ◽  
A. Paasivirta

In the spring 2020, the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic quickly spread across Finland, having significant negative consequences for people’s living conditions. On March 16, 2020, the Finnish government declared a state of emergency and imposed several restrictive measures that were in effect until July 16, 2020 [13; 16]. The coronavirus and its aftermath have weakened the resilience of the Finnish welfare state, thereby challenging the welfare state’s ability to protect those most in need of its support. Recent studies have shown that the most vulnerable populations, such as children, are most affected by the negative effects of the pandemic in Finland and worldwide [5; 9; 11; 14; 18]. In autumn 2020, the Central Union for Child Welfare (CUCW) and the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) conducted a large-scale survey among the heads of child protection authorities (15.08.—13.10.2020), the aim of which was to find out how the consequences of the coronavirus and government restrictions have affected the well-being of children and their families who are clients of child protection authorities during the fall 2020. This article presents the main results and conclusions of the survey.


Author(s):  
Emre NALÇACIGİL ◽  
Ahmet Fatih ÖZYILMAZ

The crisis indicates negativity. This negativity can occur at different degrees and levels. For enterprises, the crisis includes every situation that can reduce the profitability of businesses and even threaten the existence of the business. Accordingly, conflicts within the enterprise, separation of the personnel from the enterprise, not finding new personnel, not finding raw materials, market losses, problems with suppliers or distributors, and most importantly, the political or economic problems that the country or the world may experience, and their negative effects on the business as crisis. It can be considered. Crises are time of danger, but they are also moments that can be turned into opportunities. Organizations can benefit from the crisis when they are ready for the crisis and implement the strategic goals they have developed rapidly. As a result, the crisis can be defined as the process during which organizations and administrations pass a good test. The purpose of this study is to define the concept of crisis, to reveal the crisis management issue in businesses, to evaluate the theories on this subject and to examine the situation in practice with a field study on the subject. The best way to deal with crises is to take precautions to ensure that crises never arise. In this regard, the concept of crisis has been defined in the first part of the study and detailed information about the crisis has been given. In this section, the internal and external factors of the crisis, the stages of its formation, possible positive and negative consequences are discussed in detail. In the second part, crisis management and how it is more effective and easier to get out of the crisis, the crisis management process, types and approaches are extensively studied. In the last section, Crisis exit strategies and early warning systems are evaluated.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris A. Andreyev ◽  
Natalia A. Shibanova ◽  
Roman V. Penkovtsev ◽  
Roman V. Penkovtsev

Conflict management in public authorities is a system of management measures for the diagnosis, prevention, overcoming and neutralization of crisis situations and manifestations, as well as their causes in various government structures. Such an activity involves prediction of the degree of danger of crisis manifestations in public authorities, study of its symptoms, as well as measures to reduce the negative effects of the crisis and usage of its features for subsequent development. Each management to a certain extent has a place to be anti-crisis or begins to become so in degree of entry of the organization into the period of crisis development. Neglect of such a situation entails rather negative consequences, while its consideration contributes to an effective way out of different crisis situations [1].The research methodology involves a thorough analysis of crisis management, as well as the conflict essence in government structures. The article attempts to distinguish between the concepts of “crisis” and “conflict”, “management” and “settlement”. The theory of conflict acts as a methodological basis. Crisis management in government bodies has an impact subject represented by crisis factors, that is, all factors of exacerbation of contradictions, causing the risk of its extreme manifestation, the onset of a serious crisis. The paramount importance and priority of crisis management in various state bodies reflects the need for any organization and person to overcome, resolve and setlle crisis situations, to make possible mitigation of its consequences, and to use its potential. Understanding of crisis and conflict as a natural and inevitable phenomenon in the process of development of the organization determines the relevance of constant research, creation, improvement of crisis management mechanisms.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Krug ◽  
Jens Stegmaier ◽  
Antje Buche

There is strong empirical evidence that workforce diversity is beneficial for organizations. The theoretical concept of faultlines stresses, however, that diversity can also have negative consequences. This is the case when the sub-groups differ not just with regard to one characteristic but with regard to several characteristics simultaneously. This paper is the first to examine the negative consequences of faultlines with large-scale data on organizations in the public and private sector. Fixed-effects regressions are used to investigate the impact of functional (working time, tenure, qualification) and demographic (age, gender, nationality) faultlines on turnover and organizational performance. We also consider the interaction between firm size and faultlines. Regarding turnover, we do not find the expected negative effects of demographic and only limited evidence for functional faultlines. The effects of demographic faultlines on performance, in turn, are negative for small organizations and become positive for organizations with more than 10 members.


2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-133
Author(s):  
Adam Mateusz Suchecki

Tobacco consumption, as well as the consumption of any other psychoactive substances, lead to addictions, which is a serious problem that modern societies have to face. To reduce the negative consequences of nicotine consumption and to provide sustainable development, many governments, in both developed as well as developing countries, adopt policies to reduce tobacco production and consumption. For example, they implement various health programs to combat addiction, and they also provide appropriate financial and fiscal resolutions. Any actions taken at different decision-making levels are often bounded with economic and financial policies of a particular state, including fiscal policy. State interventionism concerning tobacco is most visible in developed countries such as the US, Canada, and European Union countries. Developing countries and Asian countries have also started to introduce regulations concerning tobacco consumption on a large scale in response to the negative effects of nicotinism. The main aim of the paper is to show consumption trends as well as the fiscal and price policies of tobacco products. The theoretical part is supplemented by data from reports and analyses presented by the World Health Organization (WHO).


2016 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 107-121
Author(s):  
Magdalena Tabernacka

THE ANTICIPATIVE ROLE OF THE LOCAL PLAN REGULATIONS IN THE SYSTEM OF ENSURING SAFETY OF THE POPULATION IN CASE OF A NATURAL DISASTERLegal order should provide system of regulations with the ability to counteract combat negative effects of natural disasters at their earliest stage. This is particularly important due to the legal obligation to ensure safety of the population. The legislation enabling to anticipate the negative consequences associated with the occurrence of natural disasters is a local plan, which should be a part of the system ensuring safety of the population within the municipality


Author(s):  
Larysa Martseniuk ◽  
Cameron Batmanghlich

The population of the planet Earth is affected by various restrictions in various spheres of life, and especially in the field of health. Over the past few decades, we have encountered several types of infectious diseases that affect both animals and humans, with the disease spreading over a large area. As a result of pandemics, all spheres of life suffer significant losses, but in our opinion, the tourism sector is one of those that suffers large-scale losses. This year, the tourism sector has also been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Restrictions on the movement of citizens, a ban on the opening of certain tourist facilities have negatively affected all enterprises involved in the organization of the tourism business. 96 % of worldwide tourist destinations are restricted. The three main problems that the tourism industry faces in a pandemic are: the problem of liquidity of tourism enterprises, the uncertainty of consumers of tourism services, the social consequences of forced restrictive measures. The author analyzes the measures taken by some countries to support the tourism sector. Gov-ernments in leading European countries have set up guarantee funds to protect tourism businesses. The article aim is to make the recommendations for the development of a set of measures to ensure the sustainability of the tourism sector in the context of increasing quarantine restrictions in Ukraine. Measures have been proposed to mitigate the exit of the tourism industry from the coronavirus crisis, including the provision of affordable credit lines for businesses, and the deferral of debt and tax liabilities. In addition, ensuring the availability and reliability of information on travel restrictions and can-cellations; creation of a mechanism to guarantee the loss of tourists from the cancellation of the trip; de-velopment of domestic tourism. In this context, the author proposes a temporary reduction in tariffs for services, certification of disinfection of tourist facilities and infrastructure, preventive measures for tourists to promote health, enabling tourists to avoid contact with other tourists, equipping passenger rolling stock with modern ven-tilation and air conditioning to prevent stagnation of infections in the air.


2007 ◽  
pp. 4-26
Author(s):  
G. Yavlinsky

Results of privatization campaign in 1990’s continue to meet strong opposition from a very considerable part of Russian people and authorities actually refuse to consider the rights of private owners legitimate and not subject to violation. One of the reasons for this, besides historical tradition, is a specific nature of Russian privatization of 1990’s. The article brings to discussion a set of measures aimed at overcoming its negative consequences. While insisting on the need to honor all previous government obligations and commitments, the paper proposes a one-time special tax (windfall tax) to be levied on those who benefited most from privatization deals that were not just and fair, and special rules to be set for the use and sale of economic assets of national importance. The author also considers possible ways to legitimize private property, as well as chances to achieve а broad public consensus on this issue in Russia.


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