Showing 21 results for Article Type: Case Study
Saeed Yazdani, Kiana Jasempoor,
Volume 9, Issue 1 (6-2017)
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Inroducion: The passive defense is one of the measures that prevent external threats to make internal vulnerabilities. In new design and architecture, it is important to pay attention to the principles of both passive and active defense in addition to the environmental and physical conditions. The importance of this issue in border regions doubled due to the specific geographical and political conditions of these areas. Now the question is “what criteria should be considered to provide security for site selecting of users?” In this regard, the purpose of this research is to prioritize the areas suitable for site selecting new residential locations or other urban infrastructures based on the identification of the effective criteria on this prioritization.
Method: In this descriptive-analytic research, data collected from library studies as well as field studies and surveys, interviews with experts and distribution of the questionnaire among experts. Then, after analyzing the current data of Eslamabad-e-Gharb by using SWOT method, effective criteria were identified in site selecting process. In the next step, criteria weighted by using AHP method and safe areas of Eslamabad-e Gharb prioritized based on the paired comparison technique.
Findings: According to the results, three criteria are the main factors affecting the process of site selecting in Eslamabad-e Gharb city such as: a) how to access the sub-criteria including the original main facilities and infrastructure; b) lack of direct aerial vision; c) the region situation with sub-criteria including uneven or smooth ground, avoiding hazardous and flooded places and away from incompatible user.
Conclusion: The results showed that the accessibility criteria and location of the range between the other metrics for selecting secure sites of this border town are more important
Ehsan Habibi, Ali Mohammad Aslsni,
Volume 9, Issue 1 (6-2017)
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Introduction: Hospitals are valuable assets and represent welfare and health of communities as well. Destruction or damage to hospital caused by fire may result in a loss of trust in local authorities and injury to patients and staff that causes health services is not provided correctly. This study aimed to assess both the fire risk assessment quantitatively and the effect of trained crisis management team on fire risk.
Method: In this descriptive analytical study, fire risk was calculated for the 15 wards of Hazrat Rasoul-e Akram hospital of Fereydunshahr through fire risk assessment method for engineers (FRAME) firstly. Then, crisis management team was formed and trained; in the following, the effects of fire risk were calculated. Data analyzed by SPSS-20 at a significant level of P <0.05 with Wilcoxon test.
Findings: According to the results, the building fire risk and their contents was on average (mean=0/57, SD=0/51), the risk of fire for individuals was (mean=4/60, SD=2/37) and the risk of fire for activities was (mean=1/81, SD=1/56); Given the unacceptable extent in the FRAME method, the risk of fire for activities and individuals were in an undesirable range. In addition, a trained crisis management team reduced the fire risk level by an average of 31.4%. The effect of crisis management team was significant in reducing the risk of fire. (P<0.05)
Conclusion: Due to the unfavorable conditions of fire safety in the mentioned hospital, fire risk can be reduced greatly by organizing the crisis management team at the hospital.
Ismail Jahanbakhsh, Mehdi Mousavi Kia, Mansour Haghighatian,
Volume 9, Issue 2 (7-2017)
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Introduction: One of the most important characteristics in organizations is the ethical feathers of the human resources in workplace. Work commitment is one of the important areas of work ethics that is influenced by a variety of factors in macro levels of community, organizational and personality. Work commitment in Parsons’ AGIL schema is defined as a set of individual moral and emotional attachments toward organization, colleagues, community, and job. However, this research investigates sociologically the factors affecting the performance of duties and job obligations of firefighting personnel in the east of Tehran.
Method: In this descriptive-correlation research, which is applied in terms of purpose is presented in the form of ten hypotheses. All fire department personnel in the east of Tehran were studied by stratified random sampling and finally 300 persons were selected. Data were gathered and analyzed by using questionnaires, SPSS software, and statistical tests such as Pearson correlation coefficient, multivariate regression analysis, and path analysis. Validity and reliability were investigated by examining a sample of the population (30 persons).
Findings: According to the results, the correlation coefficients between six variables including group identity (relational), social identity, professional identity, organizational identity, organizational participation, and job satisfaction have a meaningful relationship with job commitment variable. Moreover, the multivariate correlation coefficient between the dimensions studied coefficient of determination were r= 0.820 and R2=0/673 respectively that means 67% of the variation of the dependent variable of job commitment is covered by the mentioned independent variables.
Conclusions: Organizational justice is one of the most important factors in forming a work commitment. According to the results, the level of justice is not optimal in view of employees and needs to be reviewed. In addition, work commitment is on a good level among employees of firefighting organization based on the research. However, there is a direct and positive relationship between variables. Moreover, as much attention is paid to the components of organizational participation, group identity relational identity, social identity, professional identity, organizational identity, organizational participation, organizational justice, and job satisfaction better results are achieved and the employees of fire department will have a greater work commitment
Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi, Iraj Soltani, Behnam Saeedi,
Volume 9, Issue 2 (7-2017)
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Introduction: The present study aims to study and explain the relationship between the dimensions of work ethics, employees’ behavior, and the individual background of work ethic beliefs in service provider organizations (such as water, electricity, gas, and telecommunication). As the type of services in these organizations plays an important role for community members and their daily lives; thus, any weakness including moral weakness causes a lot of problems as well as dissatisfaction among many people. Work ethics are very important in these organizations in order to reduce the performance cost in different fields, such as decrease in productivity and dynamism, lack of transparency and poor organizational communication. Therefore, this research was done considering the history of the researcher's activities and being aware of the problems over the years in executive organizations in Kerman province.
Method: In this applied and descriptive survey, about 521 employees and managers of service provider organizations were studied and finally 221 people were selected by using Cochran formula. In order to determine reliability and validity of the questionnaire, Cronbach’s alpha coefficient and confirmatory factor analysis were used. The collected data were analyzed by using LISREL and SPSS.
Findings: The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the dimensions of work ethics, employees’ behavior, and the individual background of work ethic beliefs in service provider organizations.
Conclusions: This research identified and presented the individual background of work ethic beliefs and its relation to work behavior in service provider organizations in Kerman province by using literature review and fuzzy Delphi technique. Finally, the idea of this modeling has been achieved with an emphasis on ethics. Today, focus on ethical issues is essential because morality is known as an important competitive resource and an essential element for sustainable development, in general, and a decisive factor for organizations with global aspirations. New dimensions of work ethics are a comprehensive framework based on a set of central and strategic values in the field of quality-oriented, environmental responsibility, social responsibility, customer-oriented, excellence, meritocracy, and organizational knowledge preservation. In addition, the mentioned dimensions can provide a platform for development of morality in Iranian organizations and enable them to develop plans and improve measures along with the comprehensive pathology of the work ethics system. While having a comprehensive system structure, the new dimensions of work ethics presented in this research have a new orientation in previous work ethic due to strong enough theoretical support and refined by academic experts and service provider organizations. The new dimensions of work ethic presented have a sustainable advantage that an organization for excellence must achieve them
Mohammad Moradi, Keivan Fatehimanesh, Seyed Mohammad Hossain Nouri Rahimabadi,
Volume 10, Issue 1 (2-2018)
Abstract
Introduction: Paying attention to the operational processes of emergency or crisis management has widened in the country that can be cited the legal requirements of the prospectus document at 1404 horizons and the policies of the system related to establishing responsible organizations for crisis management. Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS) with the requirements of ISO 22301 are factors reducing potential hazards for key activities of the municipality of Tehran. This research describes the standard challenges in the municipality of Tehran's district.
Method: This descriptive-applied research, crisis cases are identified by using questionnaires, interviews, and group seminars through Delphi method. In the following, by analyzing the consequences Business Impact Analysis (BIA) in four major missions such as safety, health, credibility of the organization and citizens' dissatisfaction, important events of crisis were identified using the relative weighting indicator. At the final stage of Delphi, the consensus reached its ultimate goal by assessing the probability of occurrence and severity of events, the unacceptable risk determines
Findings: The findings showed that the average score is more than mean, if the subject's score on the Likert scale is higher than the median, the attitude toward the subject is considered positive. At 99% confidence level, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was significant (p-value=0.05). Therefore, a nonparametric test should be used. Spearman correlation coefficients were the largest among the research variables (0.559). In the risk analysis section, the risk number of disruptive events of vital activity was derived from the probability and severity of the event between 1 to 16.
Conclusion: By analyzing the outcomes of Business Impact Analysis ((BIA) from six main operating factors of organization services such as violation of laws, financial damages, environment, social and security consequences, organizational credibility, possible risk of any outcome at stopping the activity is calculated by considering the probability of occurrence and velocity of the event. In order to achieve the first priority of municipality activities, with the Delphi method, in several steps, priorities out of 208 critical activities fell to 56 and 38 respectively. Finally, a final agreement was reached on the 10 main activities. More important events for the first year include waste collection, snow removal, IT support services, emergency management, management of emergency response, and emergency services.The maximum number of risks obtained for the emergency event is related to lack of coordination between organizations, traffic problems, and blocking the roads, lack of preparation and earthquake above six Richter.
Mahnaz Kheradmand, Mahmoud Jomepour,
Volume 10, Issue 2 (7-2018)
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Introduction: Residential buildings are highly vulnerable to earthquakes and their destruction can cause many casualties and injuries. Hence, seismic assessment of buildings is necessary prior to earthquake which one of the methods is Rapid-Visual-Screening (RVS). Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in its most recent guideline has presented some changes in the data collection form with a conservative approach for seismic assessment of buildings.
Method: In this applied research, changes made in the data collection form of RVS, were identified and compared to the previous version. Using this form, seismic assessment of residential buildings of Ferdows neighborhood in 5th region of Tehran city was performed.
Findings: In the new version of FEMA, the data collection form for seismicity region is classified into five categories. Some factors such as building type, severe and moderate vertical irregularities, plan irregularity, built year, and soil type have been used to determine the final score. Among 816 selected buildings, 557 newly built buildings have achieved acceptable score and some of them got less than cut-off score. All 259 steel (URM) buildings in this neighborhood are vulnerable to earthquake.
Conclusion: The results of this research showed that many newly built buildings should be further evaluated by a design professional experienced in seismic design in order to determine whether they are seismically hazardous. Reconstruction or strengthening of steel (URM) buildings is necessary as soon as possible.
Seyed Saeid Shojaei, Hasti Borgheipour, Zohreh Moghaddas,
Volume 10, Issue 2 (7-2018)
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Introduction: Considering the existence of major faults in Tehran and probability of devastating earthquakes in this area, it seems essential to provide strategies for confronting the crisis and to manage the damages. Therefore, this paper aims to identify urban crisis management strategies in Eslamshahr County.
Method: In this descriptive analytic study, by using the SWOT, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats points of urban crisis management were studies in Eslamshahr County and optimized strategies were developed. Then, the strategies were ranked by using DEA (data envelopment analysis), a nonparametric method based on mathematical modeling.
Findings: The findings showed that the final score of organization was 2.1 and 2.46 respectively according to the results of internal and external factors evaluation matrix analyzing. It was found that the strengths are less than weak points and available opportunities are less than threats in Eslamshahr county crisis management. Of the 25 SWOT-based strategies that prioritized by using DEA, the strategies of ST1 and ST2 had the highest priority.
Conclusion: The results presented that strategies such as the use of specialized human resources to promote awareness, education, and safety culturalize as well as strengthening and empowering the crisis management unit in Eslamshahr county municipalities are the most important strategies
Hura Afra, Zahra Sabbaghian, Parvin Shafiei-Moghaddam,
Volume 10, Issue 3 (10-2018)
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INTRODUCTION: The present study was conducted with the aim to evaluate the performance of the applied science centers of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) in crisis management.
METHODS: In this descriptive-survey study, 167 out of 295 managers and experts of the applied science centers of the IRCS were selected on the basis of the Cochran formula. To examine the study variables, a questionnaire including 37 items and 2 parts evaluating performance and crisis management was employed. The financial, customer, internal processes, and growth and learning performances were measured in the performance assessment section, and the 6 dimensions of flexibility, inclusion, trust, risk perception, fairness, and consistency were measured in the crisis management part. The reliability, content validity, and construct validity of the questionnaires were confirmed by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, a group of university professors, and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), respectively. Then, inferential statistical methods such as the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test were used to ensure the normal distribution of data, and the structural equation model, Pearson correlation test, chi-square test, two-sample t-test, and one-sample t-test were used in the LISREL and SPSS software to test the hypotheses.
RESULTS: The performance of the applied science centers of the IRCS in crisis management was higher than the average level based on the balanced scorecard (BSC) model. In addition, in terms of the 4 characteristics of financial performance, customer performance, internal process performance, and growth and learning performance, the crisis management performance of this organization was at a desirable level.
CONCLUSION: It seems that policymakers, while maintaining the current situation, should plan for the development of crisis management, as well as for providing the ground for continuous improvement and better performance in this area.
Mohammad Hassan Yazdani, Masoumeh Ghasemi, Mohammad Ali Saleki Maleki,
Volume 10, Issue 4 (1-2018)
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Introduction: Flooding and floodwater is one of the most important environmental hazards that can lead to severe damage such as mortality and have long-term economic and social impacts. It may even damage the property, disrupt the communication system, and wash agricultural land. Tabriz city placement in Lake Urmia basin, its plain position, and passage of two main rivers of Aji Chay and Quri Chay from the city has caused many destructive floods to take place and left great deal of ruin.
Method: This research aims to explain the geographical situation of Tabriz city and analyze its action against urban floods with a descriptive-analytical approach. ARCGIS 10.5 and Topsis-fuzzy model is used to evaluate the research criteria.
Findings: After reviewing the research literature and the related studies, five criteria were selected as the main criteria of the research. Then, the distance between positive and negative ideals for the criteria was determined by using Topsis-fuzzy model; finally, the spatial classification of criteria was extracted by mapping each of the criteria.
Conclusion: According to the final map, that shows the vulnerable areas of Tabriz city against flood risk, 6% of the city's area with a population of about 91277 people is in very high-risk zone. Considering very high to medium risk areas, 33 percent of the city's urban area, about 46 percent of the city's population are at risk of flood. This indicates that flood-prone areas are crowded and populated areas of the city.
Ali Zangiabadi, Hojjat Bahmaei, Seyed Ali Marashi-Shoushtari,
Volume 11, Issue 3 (6-2019)
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INTRODUCTION: Medical centers are directly involved in health of the individual and society and quick and cheap access to these centers in urban communities is of great importance. In providing urban services, considering some principles, including the principles of passive defense in structures, increases the efficiency of the urban system in the area of provision of better services to citizens and also the development of a sustainable city. This study aims to address the spatial analysis of medical centers in Omidiyeh City, Iran, based on the passive defense principles.
METHODS: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of nature and method. The data collection method included the library and survey studies. The technique used in the analysis was also the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) based on the experts’ opinion and a pairwise comparison between the indicators in the geographic information system (GIS).
FINDINGS: Combining the layers of population density, land use, communication network, medical centers, distance from industrial centers, and distance from fire stations as well as creating the final map, a suitable area for medical centers was identified.
CONCLUSION: The study findings indicated that the distribution pattern of the health centers in Omidiyeh is not in accordance with the principles and criteria of passive defense and the establishment of new urban medical centers using the GIS capabilities in the city can be useful in providing services to citizens.
Ali Sibevei, Adel Azar, Mostafa Zandieh,
Volume 12, Issue 2 (10-2020)
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INTRODUCTION: Supply chains face various disruptions from human-made to natural disasters preventing proper flow of materials and products. This problem is more important in the healthcare supply chains, especially the blood supply chains, in which human lives are at risk. Making the supply chains resilient, recently addressed by managers and researchers, can be a good way to tackle them. This study aimed to identify the most important disruptions and associated resilience strategies in the blood supply chain of Tehran, Iran, and prioritize the identified strategies based on the disruptions.
METHODS: In the current study, important disruptions and associated appropriate resilience strategies were determined using previous studies and Delphi method. Then, the most important resilience strategies were identified and prioritized proposing the House of Quality and Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) as a novel hybrid approach.
FINDINGS: A total of 9 disruptions and 16 resilience strategies were determined by reviewing previous studies and asking for expert opinions. The suggested hybrid model also contributed to determining the importance of each strategy in addressing disruptions and prioritizing them in the blood supply chain of Tehran.
CONCLUSION: Those strategies with high importance and low performance, such as flexibility or risk management culture, are of great importance and should be considered by managers and improved according to IPA. In addition, other strategies, such as social responsibility or redundancy, should be continued in the current way.
Ahmad Arabshahi Karizi, Somayeh Asgari,
Volume 12, Issue 2 (10-2020)
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INTRODUCTION: The present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of Islamic work ethic in the relationship between spiritual intelligence and occupational self-efficacy in the Red Crescent relief workers.
METHODS: This applied research was conducted based on a descriptive-survey design. The statistical population consisted of all Red Crescent relief workers in Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran (n=146). In total, 106 relief workers were selected using simple random sampling and the required data were collected through standard questionnaires. Finally, the collected data were analyzed in SPSS (version?) and Smart PLS software (version?).
FINDINGS: Based on the results, there is a significant positive relationship between spiritual intelligence and occupational self-efficacy of Red Crescent relief workers and the Islamic work ethic is able to mediate this relationship.
CONCLUSION: According to the findings, it can be concluded that it is possible to improve the occupational self-efficiency of relief workers through the development and reinforcement of spiritual intelligence and promotion and institutionalization of Islamic work ethic. Therefore, they will be able to play a more effective role in the achievement of organizational goals.
Mozafar Mohammadkhani, Zeinab Karkehabadi, Abbas Arghan,
Volume 12, Issue 3 (12-2020)
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INTRODUCTION: Resilience is considered a way of strengthening societies using their capacities which can be defined as the ability of systems to adapt to changes without collapsing at the incidence of disasters. To understand resilience and the way it is analyzed at the community level, it is necessary to study the society's current condition and policies, as well as the measures adopted to reduce risk and how the risks in society are dealt with. This study aimed to assess the resilience of urban communities in the face of an earthquake.
METHODS: This descriptive-analytical study was conducted using a questionnaire to collect the required data in Semnan, Iran, in 2019. The statistical population of this study (n=384) consisted of the citizens of Semnan selected using the Cochran formula and random sampling method. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS software (version 23) using mean and percentage for descriptive analysis and Pearson correlation coefficient and one-sample t-test for inferential statistical tests.
FINDINGS: Based on the results, the sociocultural, infrastructural-physical, economic, and institutional-organizational dimensions showed the current condition of resilience in Semnan with the mean scores obtained as 2.59, 3.05, 2.17, and 2.56, respectively. It was also revealed that resilience had a significant relationship with age, education, income, accommodation ownership, employment, calculated by the Pearson correlation coefficient (P-value=0.99).
CONCLUSION: The mean scores and significance level of the economic resilience in Semnan revealed that this city lacked economic resilience. In this regard, it can be noted that residents' lack of skills in other fields and jobs, lack of possessions outside the city, the vulnerability of residents' properties and assets, level of economic poverty in the city, citizens' limited financial ability to participate economically, and low level of household savings to compensate for earthquake damage have made returning to pre-crisis conditions highly difficult for citizens, and consequently, they cannot be economically resilient.
Hossein Mohebati Zohan, Nour Mohammad Yaghoubi, Mohammad Mohammadi, Mehdi Mahmoudzadeh Washan,
Volume 13, Issue 2 (5-2021)
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INTRODUCTION: In recent years, the community-oriented approach has been proposed as one of the approaches used in crisis management. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the factors affecting community-oriented crisis management in Iran.
METHODS: Initially, the subject of the study was defined and initial exploratory and library studies were conducted. Subsequently, the relevant factors and components were identified through the Delphi method and a researcher-made questionnaire and were then provided to the experts to give their opinions. These factors and components underwent analysis by statistical methods after that the qualitative and quantitative corrective opinions of the experts were received. Finally, the experts' consensus was reached regarding the appropriateness of the model, components, and the combination of factors. The study population in this section consisted of 28 academics and professionals familiar with the subject selected using a judgmental sampling method. Subsequently, to test the model, a researcher-made questionnaire was distributed among 353 selected individuals of the local community of South Khorasan Province, Iran, who were selected by random clustering method. The collected data in this section were analyzed in Smart PLS software (version 3) using confirmatory factor analysis.
FINDINGS: The research findings included the validation of the model through the Delphi method and the test of the final model through confirmatory factor analysis.
CONCLUSION: The results showed that four categories of preventive, preparatory, confronting, and reconstructive factors were effective on community-oriented crisis management, among which, preparatory factors with an impact factor of 33.5 had the greatest impact on community-oriented crisis management.
Mohammad Hossein Yeylaghi Ashrafi, Elham Akhtari, Naser Bay, Nader Oveisi,
Volume 13, Issue 2 (5-2021)
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INTRODUCTION: At the time of natural disasters, various organizations are responsible for crisis management. Each organization holds responsibilities corresponding to its mission statement. The absence of coordination is one of the primary obstacles regarding crisis management at the time of the disaster, caused by inconsistent decisions and a lack of mutual perception of the crisis. The more compatible the strategy selection process of organizations is, the fewer natural disaster casualties will be.
METHODS: This study aims to strategically analyze the crisis management of April 2019 Golestan floods through the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) method, highlighting the role and performance of the Red Crescent Society. The selected tool was a descriptive-analytic field-based documentation survey questionnaire providing the chance to investigate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Finally, we determined the optimal strategy.
FINDINGS: The results revealed that the average values of internal and external factors for all units were above 2.5. Therefore, SO is the optimal strategy whose emphasis is on using the strengths and opportunities faced by the Red Crescent Society to the fullest and other flood management bodies.
CONCLUSION: Considering that the crisis-management-related agencies ought to operate as a unified system to decrease casualties, the need to adopt proper strategies to enhance coordination in associated organizations is one of the leading priorities of Golestan Province.
Ehsaneh Bolouki Rad, Karim Kia Kojouri,
Volume 13, Issue 2 (5-2021)
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INTRODUCTION: Today, organizations live in changing environmental conditions and various factors affect their performance strategies. Therefore, organizations should consider critical situations or crises and identify organizational strategies for crisis prevention and effective and efficient crisis management. To deal with the crisis, organizational learning plays an effective role in strategic preparation for crisis management; moreover, altruistic behavior and social innovation can play a facilitating and effective role in critical situations. Accordingly, the present study aimed to investigates the relationship of organizational learning and strategic preparation for crisis management with the mediating role of social innovation and altruism in the Red Crescent Society, Gilan, Iran.
METHODS: This descriptive-correlation study was conducted based on an applied research method. The statistical population includes the staff of the branches of the Red Crescent Society, Gilan, Iran. The participants were selected using the stratified sampling method, and Cochran's formula was used to determine the sample size (n=208). The data were collected through standard questionnaires.
FINDINGS: According to the results, organizational learning has a significant and direct effect on altruism, social innovation, and strategic preparation for crisis management. Moreover, social innovation and altruism play a mediating and effective role in the relationship between organizational learning and strategic preparation for crisis management.
CONCLUSION: The results revealed that organizational learning has a positive effect on strategic preparation for crisis management, social innovation, and altruism. In addition, an increase in learning improves social innovation, altruism, and strategic preparation for crisis management.
Javad Bastani, Ali Mollahosseini, Hani Rezaian,
Volume 14, Issue 3 (8-2022)
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INTRODUCTION: Behavioural patterns of the people can affect the emergency evacuation procedure. The most important issue of crisis management is to evacuate the people from the accident site in the shortest time and with the maximum speed. Pilgrimage destinations attract many pilgrims on religious occasions, and this has highlighted the importance of addressing this issue in these centers. This study aimed to explain and propose an evacuation exit plan for pilgrims during accidents in the most important and prominent religious center of Iran (Shrine of Imam Reza).
METHODS: This descriptive-analytical study was performed using an applied research method. The document-library and field methods were used to collect data. The statistical population includes the managers of the Shrine complex, experts of the crisis management headquarters, consulting engineers in architecture and urban planning, as well as managers and experts in Mashhad Municipality. The sample size was estimated to be 384 cases based on Cochran's formula. The collected data via questionnaires were analyzed by SPSS and Smart PLS software using structural equation modelling.
FINDINGS: According to the results, the presented model includes seven variables (group movement, individual movement, incident management technology tools, perception of the physical environment, physical movement, modelling, and behavioral culture) affecting the pilgrims leaving the incident site in the Shrine of Imam Reza.
CONCLUSION: The results of this study indicated that the presented model with 7 variables and 21 parameters can be used as a suitable model in other places.
Pourya Parvaneh, Mehran Sayyah Reziani,
Volume 15, Issue 3 (6-2023)
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INTRODUCTION: In this research, the impact of the Red Crescent radio podcast has been evaluated from the audience's point of view in public training and increasing the level of public awareness.
METHODS: The current research is a quantitative-qualitative (mixed) research based on field data from the opinions of the radio podcast audience of the Red Crescent Society of Iran, in which it has been tried to evaluate the effectiveness of using podcasts as an educational method both quantitatively and qualitatively using thematic analysis.
FINDINGS: The results of the research show that podcasts and audio content can be used as a low-cost educational method and with the ability to spread quickly among the general public due to the lack of time allocation and the possibility of learning in different environments, the possibility of quick and free publication and the possibility of developing easy access to the audience. The audio appeal of podcasts increases especially when it is narrated in the form of a story and several narrators. The production of a podcast with purely educational content should not be longer than 20 minutes.
CONCLUSION: The results of the studies indicate that content-oriented podcasts can be boring for learners if they last more than 20 minutes. Production of audio content can be used as an educational method in public education if the created content has enough details. Considering that the majority of learners have more educational ability through visual content, making videocassettes can be a more suitable way to transmit educational content. Unfamiliarity with the resources and the low interest in public education is due to the lack of advertising, the majority of the audience is not familiar with Red Crescent public education.
Bahareh Sadat Mousavi, Ebrahim Jahangir, Najmeh Neysani Samani, Meysam Argany,
Volume 15, Issue 3 (6-2023)
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INTRODUCTION: The occurrence of a huge number of road accidents in Iran makes it necessary to pay more attention than before to the rescue and relief sector, the correct locating of road rescue and relief bases and its development and equipment, especially in Alborz province and topological conditions, geographical diversity and its tourism characteristics. Therefore, in this research, in order to reduce the hazards, the spatial analysis of rescue and relief bases in this province was conducted.
METHODS: In this research, in order to optimize the allocation and locating the rescue and relief centers, the intended indicators were extracted from the Red Crescent Society instructions and after preparing the required data, the weight of each index was extracted and optimized in PSO algorithm in MATLAB environment using AHP hierarchical analysis and OWA weighted average. The obtained weights were applied in the corresponding layers and the optimal points were suggested for the development of the rescue and relief network of Alborz province.
FINDINGS: Finally, prioritizing the development of rescue and relief centers in the province was suggested after evaluating the accident-prone state of the province in relation to the existing and proposed centers as well as the development plans of the province
CONCLUSION: The results showed that the use of PSO algorithm can have acceptable results in the field of optimal locating of rescue and relief centers.
Zahra Abjam, Ahmad Soltani, Hossein Dehghan,
Volume 15, Issue 3 (6-2023)
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INTRODUCTION: Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), as the biggest non-governmental organizations in Iran's social system, needs to develop the concept of social responsibility. The current study was conducted to develop a model for the social responsibility of the Red Crescent Society by emphasizing on volunteers’ participation in disasters.
METHODS: A qualitative approach (Grounded Theory method) was designed to define related components. The sample population included experts and volunteers in the Red Crescent Society. The sampling method was purposeful and 22 volunteers were selected based on theoretical saturation. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview, and data analysis was conducted based on paradigm model explanation.
FINDINGS: Based on data analysis, causal conditions consist of 9 main categories, 32 sub-categories and 76 concepts; contextual conditions consist of 6 main categories, 18 subcategories, and 77 concepts; 2 main categories, 8 sub-categories and 33 concepts for intervening conditions; the strategies consist of 11 main categories, 37 sub-categories and 148 concepts, and finally, the results consist of 9 main categories, 12 sub-categories and 52 concepts. On the base of extracted data, a paradigm model of the social responsibility with an emphasis on the participation of volunteers was designed.
CONCLUSION: The social responsibility of the Red Crescent Society is a comprehensive issue and has different legal, ethical, public, national, economic and social aspects which should be considered in planning of this organization for disasters.