Title
Session 4 - How investigation committees stimulate and block learning from disasters
Location
University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building
Start Date
1-6-2007 2:23 PM
End Date
1-6-2007 2:30 PM
Description
The heart of this essay is a small study of four investigation reports, two from Holland and two from the United States. Based on this study we’ll present a fairly simple typology of approaches by investigators for interpreting the facts that they find. From the perspective of a manager that made a decision that proved to be disastrous we’ll explain the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches for learning. From the perspective of the investigator we’ll explain the logic of these approaches. Confronting both perspectives with each other explains why it is so hard for managers to learn from investigation reports.
Keywords
Disaster investigations; Emergency management -- Evaluation; Investigations -- Methodology; Investigative approaches; Management; Netherlands; United States
Disciplines
Public Administration | Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
Language
English
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Session 4 - How investigation committees stimulate and block learning from disasters
University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building
The heart of this essay is a small study of four investigation reports, two from Holland and two from the United States. Based on this study we’ll present a fairly simple typology of approaches by investigators for interpreting the facts that they find. From the perspective of a manager that made a decision that proved to be disastrous we’ll explain the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches for learning. From the perspective of the investigator we’ll explain the logic of these approaches. Confronting both perspectives with each other explains why it is so hard for managers to learn from investigation reports.