Decision Games as an Element of Managerial Improvement in Crisis Management

In order to ensure effective counteraction to contemporary security threats, maximum limitation of human losses, property and natural environment losses, a multi-level and multi-element system of crisis management has been organized in Poland, covering all levels of government and local government administration as well as specialist services, guards, separate inspections and non-governmental organisations. The effectiveness of this system, most of whose participants are not full-time employees, depends, among other things, on proper training and preparation of managerial staff. One of the most important contemporary methods of training and improvement of managerial staff is the method of “decision games”, which should be aimed at training the managers of crisis management systems in solving complex problems and shaping intellectual features that affect the efficiency of action and creative thinking of decision-makers, especially during the search for rational solutions to problems, in conditions of difficult to determine risk. This method has many advantages, including the possibility of implementing theoretical knowledge about crisis management into practical solutions, practising in conditions which decision-makers may encounter in reality, the coverage of practically the whole area of decision-making in crisis management, or the implementation of the acquired knowledge and skills into practical actions but on “paper” in conditions free from the risk of human losses or property or natural environment losses due to wrong decisions.

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Building resilience for food service businesses in times of crisis: a Four-F action plan

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management ◽

10.1108/ijchm-01-2021-0123 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Ananya Bhattacharya ◽

Ambika Zutshi ◽

Ali Bavik

Keyword(s):

Crisis Management ◽

Dynamic Capabilities ◽

Planning Process ◽

Action Plan ◽

Food Service ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

Content Type ◽

Theoretical Concepts ◽

Service Businesses

Purpose This paper aims to propose a “Four-F (finding facts, fostering alternates, fulfilling implementation and feasibility testing)” action plan to global food service businesses (FSB) such as restaurants (dine-in/take away) to build resilience during times of global crises. The 2019 Coronavirus disease and FSBs apply as working examples elaborating the proposed Four-F action plan with several managerial implications for the internal and external stakeholders of FSBs. Design/methodology/approach The method involves reviewing and coding 108 articles using the PRISMA approach, then applying findings to develop the Four-F action plan integrating multiple theoretical concepts (such as stakeholder, crisis management and dynamic capabilities). Findings There are two key findings. First, though all four crisis phases should be considered by decision-makers as part of their contingency planning process, the pre and post-crisis stages need higher attention. Second, the Four-F action plan provides specific recommendations to FSBs stakeholders (consumers, suppliers and government) for each crisis phase (pre-crisis, crisis emergence, crisis occurrence and post-crisis). Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper that has incorporated multiple theoretical frameworks (stakeholder theory, crisis management and dynamic capabilities) within the FSBs context and provided the Four-F action plan for decision-makers to understand and manage crisis phases.

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Nature and Geography

Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services - Global Perspectives on Contemporary Marketing Education ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-9784-3.ch004 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 47-64

Author(s):

Brent Smith

Keyword(s):

Natural Disasters ◽

Natural Environment ◽

International Markets ◽

Business Environment ◽

Marketing Mix ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Business Decision ◽

Business News ◽

Marketing Activities ◽

News Industry

This chapter considers the appropriateness and importance of including the natural environment (i.e., nature and geography) as part of the external business environment featured in marketing textbooks. Based on myriad examples from industry, the natural environment is regarded as an uncontrollable force that constantly affects decisions about markets and marketing activities. Thus, it deserves some (greater) mention next to economic, competitive, regulatory, and other variables typically featured in most marketing textbooks. Based on a review of business news, industry concerns, and marketing textbooks, this chapter considers the current listing of uncontrollable environment forces typically discussed within twenty-five popular marketing textbooks. It is observed that nature and geography, common priorities for business decision makers, are conspicuously absent from mention within most of these textbooks. This chapter shows that the natural environment is mentioned in only five of twenty-five marketing textbooks: two introductory marketing; one marketing management; and two international marketing. Based on scholarly definitions and industry examples, nature and geography are, in fact, uncontrollable influential forces that affect markets and marketing activities. Consequently, there is reasonable cause for including them in more marketing textbooks. Textbook authors and instructors can provide students a more complete picture of how domestic and international markets and marketing activities are affected by the natural environment. In practice, business people acknowledge that the natural environment affects and is affected by markets and marketing activities in virtually all industries. Alas, marketing textbooks seldom little, if ever, acknowledge that nature and geography (e.g., topography, climate, weather, solar flares, natural disasters) affect how companies think about their markets and marketing mix. This chapter offers simple, actionable steps for discussing the natural environment in marketing textbooks and courses.

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Proses Pengambilan Keputusan

10.31227/osf.io/kt9am ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

yola febriani ◽

Hade Afriansyah ◽

Rusdinal

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Problem Solving ◽

Literature Review ◽

Creative Thinking ◽

Human Life ◽

Decision Makers ◽

New Information ◽

The Right ◽

Alternative Solutions ◽

Made In

This article aims to describe how is the process of decision making. Decision making is something that is never separated from human life, both simple decision making and complex problems. Everyone is always faced with the choice to take a decision. To be able to take the right decisions, every person should know the steps. This article presents what the decision-making steps and what is the importance of creative thinking in decision making. Creative thinking will help decision makers to improve the quality and effectiveness of problem solving and decision making results were made. In relation to the process of decision making, creative thinking is needed, especially in identifying problems and develop alternative solutions. The methodology used to arrange this article is Systematic Literature Review (SLR). First, researcher find relevant theories, and then make a conclusion about it, then analyzing, and finally make a new information based researcher analyzing.

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Proses Pengambilan Keputusan

10.31227/osf.io/jwf2z ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

yola febriani ◽

Hade Afriansyah ◽

Rusdinal

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Problem Solving ◽

Literature Review ◽

Creative Thinking ◽

Human Life ◽

Decision Makers ◽

New Information ◽

The Right ◽

Alternative Solutions ◽

Made In

This article aims to describe how is the process of decision making. Decision making is something that is never separated from human life, both simple decision making and complex problems. Everyone is always faced with the choice to take a decision. To be able to take the right decision, every person should know the steps. This article presents what the decision making steps and what is the importance of creative thinking in decision making. Creative thinking will help decision makers to improve the quality and effectiveness of problem solving and decision making results were made. In relation to the process of decision making, creative thinking is needed, especially in identifying problems and develop alternative solutions. The methodology used to arrange this article is Systematic Literature Review (SLR). First, researcher find relevant theories, and then make a conclusion about it, then analyzing, and finally make a new information based researcher analyzing

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Lessons from COVID-19 Pandemic: A Preliminary Analysis of Bangladesh’s Responses

ISPEC International Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities ◽

10.46291/ispecijsshvol5iss2pp165-177 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 165-177

Author(s):

Rifat Mahmud

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Data Collection ◽

Crisis Management ◽

Preliminary Analysis ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Policy Makers ◽

The World ◽

The Government ◽

Crisis Responses ◽

Second Wave

The first wave of the COVID- 19 disease has caused a daunting and unprecedented challenge for governments of the world. Decision-makers worldwide, including that of Bangladesh, had to initiate responses that were beyond the conventional measures. This paper offers the decision-makers in Bangladesh on the possible learning in the field of crisis management during this pandemic. The paper aims in focusing on the first phase of responses to COVID-19 (March-May) from the initial lockdown to the reopening of offices by the government of Bangladesh. Methodologically, the paper is a content analysis involving netnography approach of data collection from websites. The paper presents a finding of possible lessons of crisis responses in Bangladesh. The paper aims to create an agenda for learning lessons from the situation of the largest crisis to hit the world in centuries. The paper induces substantial value for policy-makers to be prepared for the second wave of the COVID- 19 crisis, to meet the challenges of the pandemic.

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"Heightened Mindfulness" in Government Decision Makers: Antecedents and Consequents During Crisis Management in the Emerging Interactive Information Environment

10.31124/advance.14781387 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ravindra Singh Bangari

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Crisis Management ◽

National Level ◽

Information Environment ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Societal Implications ◽

Indian Government ◽

Public Leadership ◽

The Media ◽

Nuanced Understanding

Mindfulness in decision makers has important implications for public leadership. A more nuanced understanding of mindfulness emerges from our grounded research into three national-level crises in the emerging interactive information environment, faced by the Indian government, wherein, the media, stakeholders and the interactive information environment combined to bring the visibility factor to fore, influencing significant aspects of individual, group, organisational and societal sensemaking, framing, cognition, and behavioural responses, amidst ongoing interactions. The research led to identification of a micro-level framework, comprising the antecedents and consequents of the occurrence of “heightened mindfulness” in decision makers in the emerging interactive information environment; leading to a better understanding of the process of influence of the ongoing interactions in the emerging information environment on decision making and crisis management. This “heightened mindfulness” in decision makers and its influence on crisis decision making, in turn, are particularly significant because of their wider organisational and societal implications. The research findings and the proposed framework of crisis decision making have important implications for governments and public leadership in their decision making effectiveness during similar crises.<br>

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"Heightened Mindfulness" in Government Decision Makers: Antecedents and Consequents During Crisis Management in the Emerging Interactive Information Environment

10.31124/advance.14781387.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ravindra Singh Bangari

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Crisis Management ◽

National Level ◽

Information Environment ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Societal Implications ◽

Indian Government ◽

Public Leadership ◽

The Media ◽

Nuanced Understanding

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‘Strengthening community from the inside out’: Transformative possibility for climate change resilience and adaptation in Te Awa Kairangi-Hutt City

10.26686/wgtn.17138864.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

◽

Kaitlyn Simon

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Natural Environment ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Critical Geography ◽

Community Members ◽

Human Relationships ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Alternate Possibility ◽

Political Act

<p>How do we organise society and adjust our human relationships with the natural environment to adapt to a changing climate? How do we decide to make these adjustments? These questions shape Aotearoa-New Zealand climate change discourse across adaptation research and central and local government policy. A resilience approach to adaptation is one conceptual response that has gained popularity over the past decade. However, some critical geographers argue that the dominant typologies of resilience have been normalised as neoliberal capitalist strategies and positioned as ‘neutral processes’, and that these strategies can perpetuate inequity and unsustainability. Critical geographers therefore suggest focusing on addressing the root causes of inequity and unsustainability through transformative resilience and adaptation. This research builds on critical geography work by exploring how Common Unity Project Aotearoa (CUPA), a charitable trust located in Te Awa Kairangi-Hutt City, is fostering a community that understands and performs transformative possibilities for resilience and adaptation. For community members of CUPA, ethical actions of a community economy, a process of collective learning and an ability to make sustainability accessible contribute to transformative adaptation and resilience. Exploration of these themes provides a grounded example of how communities can adapt to climate change in ways that also seek to transform inequitable and unsustainable capitalist relations with one another and with the natural environment. CUPA’s transformative work poses implications for councils and decision-makers seeking to build resilience and the capacity to adapt in community, offering alternate possibility for discourse, decision-making, participation and engagement. I approach this project as a scholar-activist in recognition that research is a performative, political act. Through a scholar-activist methodology I use participant observation and interviews to gather insight and information. I ground my critical geography lens in care in order to contribute to a knowledge-making around climate change based in possibility and multiplicity, rather than of authority and judgement.</p>

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The Natural Environment and Health in Africa

10.5479/10088/111281 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

James M. Hassell ◽

Salome A. Bukachi ◽

Dishon M. Muloi ◽

Emi Takahashi ◽

Lydia Franklinos

Keyword(s):

Natural Environment ◽

Animal Health ◽

Natural World ◽

Emerging Diseases ◽

Decision Makers ◽

African Continent ◽

Economic Prosperity ◽

Environmental Pressures ◽

Human Interactions ◽

Environment And Health

Much of recent human development has come at the expense of Nature - undermining ecosystems, fragmenting habitats, reducing biodiversity, and increasing our exposure and vulnerability to emerging diseases. For example, as we push deeper into tropical forests, and convert more land to agriculture and human settlements, the rate at which people encounter new pathogens that may trigger the next public health, social and economic crisis, is likely to increase. Expanding and strengthening our understanding of the links between nature and human health is especially important in Africa, where nature brings economic prosperity and wellbeing to more than a billion people. Pandemics such as COVID are just one of a growing number of health challenges that humanity is facing as a result of our one-sided and frequently destructive relationship with nature. This report aims to inform professionals and decision-makers on how health outcomes emerge from human interactions with the natural world and identify how efforts to preserve the natural environment and sustainably manage natural resources could have an impact on human and animal health. While the report focuses on the African continent, it will also be of relevance to other areas of the world facing similar environmental pressures.

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