Decision Making Effectiveness in Wildfire Incident Management Teams

Autor:	Mary Omodei, Alina Holgate, Jim McLennan, Alexander J. Wearing
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Information management Engineering Decision support system Matching (statistics) Knowledge management business.industry Metacognition Cognition Management Monitoring Policy and Law Management Information Systems Scale (social sciences) Incident management (ITSM) business Cognitive load
Zdroj:	Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. 14:27-37
ISSN:	1468-5973 0966-0879
Popis:	During large scale wildfires, suppression activities are carried out under the direction of an Incident Management Team (IMT). The aim of the research was to increase understanding of decision processes potentially related to IMT effectiveness. An IMT comprises four major functions: Command, Operations, Planning, and Logistics. Four methodologies were used to study IMT processes: computer simulation experiments; analyses of wildfire reports; interviews with IMT members; and cognitive ethnographic studies of IMTs. Three processes were important determinants of IMT effectiveness: information management and cognitive overload; matching component function goals to overall goals; and team metacognition to detect and counter task-disruptive developments. These processes appear to be complex multi-person analogues of individual Incident Command processes identified previously. The findings have implications for issues such as: creating IMTs; training IMTs; managing IMTs; and providing decision support to IMTs.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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