crisis management, as one of the key activities in strategic management has significant importance. one of the major requirements of crisis management is the high level of readiness and qualification of human resources responsible for crisis management. the focus of this paper is on presenting a crisis management model with human resources approach. first, we reviewed the literature and extract...

an earthquake was happened on 23 october 2011 in van, turkey (mw7.2) at the eastern most area of anatolian plateau and in the neighborhood of iranian border (west azerbaijan province). the study was performed based on field and office observations and has been focused on the process of disaster management in turkey after the 23 october 2011 earthquake. we surveyed the quake from the view point ...

introduction: knowledge is one of the most important assets of any organization and the importance of knowledge management in the information age is considered more than ever. experts believe that organizational success or failures are associated with knowledge management. both implicit and explicit knowledge management are so important in disaster management. the aim of this study is to determ...

background and objectives: during crisis, hospitals have great responsibility in saving life and protect health of the damaged individuals. fulfilling this responsibility relies on preparedness of hospital staff, particularly the clinicians to face the relevant challenges. given the lack of adequate information on the topic from iran, the present study aimed to explore the technical crisis prep...

awareness and preparedness for prevention of crisis plays an important role in minimizing its impacts and fatalities. this study suggests how to enhance the efficiency of crisis management through applying a resilience engineering (re) approach. the aim of this study was to design a questionnaire to assess crisis management based on re approach. in this descriptive survey, four principles of re...

background: nowadays, application of nuclear technology in different industries has largely expanded worldwide. proportionately,the risk of nuclear incidents and the resulting injuries have, therefore, increased in recent years. preparedness is an important part of the crisis management cycle; therefore efficient preplanning seems crucial to any crisis  management plan. equipped with facilities...