The Department of Energy`s (DOE) non-nuclear facilities generally require only a qualitative accident analysis to assess facility risks in accordance with DOE Order 5481.1B, Safety Analysis and Review System. Achieving a meaningful qualitative assessment of risk necessarily requires the use of...

The incidence of commercial buildings with poor indoor air quality (IAQ), and the frequency of litigation over the effects of poor IAQ is increasing. If so, these increases have ramifications for insurance carriers, which pay for many of the costs of health care and general commercial liability....

Emergency managers have come to recognize that there is a quintessential style of emergency response procedure development that must be guarded against. This style allows the definition of objectives to be decided upon apart from the problems posed by their implementation, and then permits the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented disruption to the global economy and world trade, with production and consumption falling dramatically in many economic. Organizations around the world have responded in many ways, from implementing working from home and restricting non-essential...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented disruption to the global economy and world trade, with production and consumption falling dramatically in many economic. Organizations around the world have responded in many ways, from implementing working from home and restricting non-essential...

A Thesis Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree ofMaster of Science-PsychologyIndustrial/Organizational

The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has historically provided a useful model for understanding administrative behavior and organizational change. In 1990 and 1996, nationwide studies of USFS employees were conducted to evaluate the emergence of a new resource management paradigm and to examine the...

During Peter Drucker’s talk entitled "From Computer Literacy to Information Literacy" he discusses information systems and how they impact individual enterprises and workers. During his lecture, he talks about: the changing labor force, organization structure, command and control structure,...

During Peter Drucker's talk entitled "The Organization in Transition – Are the Traditional Functions Obsolete?" he discusses functions that remain centers of specialized knowledge and training, but cease to constitute the organizational base of the work itself. During his lecture, he talks...

The failure to integrate environmental and organizational interventions may help explain the lack of success of many change efforts. The high rate of failure for change efforts (50% to 90% failure rates) has been noted by many writers. While specific causes of failure are diverse, a common theme...