Communication in evacuation Communication in emergencies, and so also in evacuations, has always been developed in an attempt to not lead people to panic. Until very recently, indeed, there were the commonplace that telling people about an emergency incident would lead to panic (Quarantelli & Dynes 1972; Tierney 2003). On the basis of this […]
Il disagio nelle relazioni lavorative: Obiettivi della ricerca Gli aspetti presentati fino a questo momento servono per tracciare in breve il percorso di questo elaborato; partendo dal concetto di mobbing per come oggi è inteso, viene osservata una realtà ben più complessa, quella del disagio vissuto all’interno delle relazioni lavorative. Assumendo il punto di vista […]
Leadership in evacuation Social psychology applied to evacuation behavior has also focused on leadership, that is a process of social influence which has a great impact in managing both routine emergencies and catastrophic events (Boin & ‘t Hart, 2003; Giuliani, 2002; Kweit & Kweit, 2006; Sjoberg, Claes & Larsson, 2006; Witt, 2002). Drury and […]
Il disagio nelle relazioni lavorative:La storia di Rossana, una storia sconosciuta “Mi manca il respiro. Perdo peso. Non riesco a staccare la spina.” Rossana1 è una lavoratrice di circa cinquant’anni che da qualche anno subisce atti vessatori sul luogo di lavoro; è una persona stanca, arrivata al limite, che paga le conseguenze di […]
SOCIAL FACTORS IN EVACUATION: HUMAN CROWD IN EVACUATION In most of the cases, evacuation process has a social aspect too. Indeed, emergency situations usually involve more than one person: people working in the same office, a family living in its house, a city or even a whole region facing a flood or an earthquake. […]
Emergency measures’perceptions and attitudes An interesting survey commissioned by the National Fire Protection Association has focused on some individual cognitive aspects that play an important role in the effectiveness of the evacuation process (Zmud, 2007). It explored the general knowledge, attitudes and perceptions about high-rise building safety and emergency evacuation procedures in case of […]
Individual Factors in Evacuation: Risk perception During the 80’s, risk assessment emerged as a new field of study thanks to the development of chemical and nuclear technologies. Withrisk assessment Slovic (1987) refers to identifying, characterizing and quantifying risk. People assess risk in an intuitive and subjective way. Risk perception is based on the assumption […]
INDIVIDUAL FACTORS IN EVACUATION As shown in the previous section, there are some factors related to the occupant that are relevant in the evacuation process. In this chapter some of them will be presented more in detail. Primarily, research findings about knowledge and training in evacuation will be provided. Then, there will be a […]
Factors in evacuation response: an integrative model The hazard response performance depends not only on human actions. A recent review about human behavior in emergencies, in particular in fire situations, attests that it mainly derives from 3 factors: danger factor, human factor and environmental factor (Kobes et al., 2010). The danger factor refers […]
Conflitto Lavoro Famiglia: Conclusioni In conclusione, gli obiettivi chiave dello studio sono stati diversi. La ricerca ha infatti avuto lo scopo di chiarire in primo luogo il tipo di relazione che intercorre tra il costrutto del conflitto lavoro – famiglia e due importanti e conosciuti fenomeni organizzativi, l’assenteismo per malattia e il presentismo per malattia. […]
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