Article Critique: Disaster Management and Critical Thinking Skills of Local Emergency Managers
Planning, guiding, and executing emergency and disaster response plans are part of the responsibilities held by an emergency manager. Numerous skills such as communication, cooperation, time management, and organization are necessary in emergency management. However, the most important valued yet challenging learning skill to develop is critical thinking skills. In practice, many obstacles stand in the way of an emergency manager’s ability to apply critical thinking skills. In this paper, I analyze an article entitled “Disaster Management and Critical Thinking Skills of Local Emergency Managers: Correlations with Age, Gender, Education, and Years …show more content…
The current situation relating to disasters is that they have reached a new level of intensity, causing devastating effects such as deaths, injuries, and economic instability. In order to counter these effects, effective and efficient disaster management systems need competent emergency management professionals to lead them. As part of the mitigation efforts aimed at addressing this situation, emergency managers must be able to identify risks and mange vulnerabilities associated with the occurrence of a disaster. Furthermore, emergency managers need to incorporate sound decision-making, continuous effort, and critical thinking, to reduce negative impacts of disasters. However, several difficulties stand in the way of the emergency manager’s ability to make appropriate decisions and judge information, using critical thinking …show more content…
At the end of the assessment, it was determined that there were no correlation between the emergency manager’s score and the dependent variables of age and gender. However, levels and years of education and years in occupation amongst the managers showed a positive correlation. Managers with more than 10 years of experience and a bachelor degree or higher were best able to use critical thinking skills. The authors found that an educational background was the foundation that helped the emergency managers think critically. Moreover, ability to apply critical thinking in emergency management will only get stronger as each individual progress through their
Planning, guiding, and executing emergency and disaster response plans are part of the responsibilities held by an emergency manager. Numerous skills such as communication, cooperation, time management, and organization are necessary in emergency management. However, the most important valued yet challenging learning skill to develop is critical thinking skills. In practice, many obstacles stand in the way of an emergency manager’s ability to apply critical thinking skills. In this paper, I analyze an article entitled “Disaster Management and Critical Thinking Skills of Local Emergency Managers: Correlations with Age, Gender, Education, and Years …show more content…
The current situation relating to disasters is that they have reached a new level of intensity, causing devastating effects such as deaths, injuries, and economic instability. In order to counter these effects, effective and efficient disaster management systems need competent emergency management professionals to lead them. As part of the mitigation efforts aimed at addressing this situation, emergency managers must be able to identify risks and mange vulnerabilities associated with the occurrence of a disaster. Furthermore, emergency managers need to incorporate sound decision-making, continuous effort, and critical thinking, to reduce negative impacts of disasters. However, several difficulties stand in the way of the emergency manager’s ability to make appropriate decisions and judge information, using critical thinking …show more content…
At the end of the assessment, it was determined that there were no correlation between the emergency manager’s score and the dependent variables of age and gender. However, levels and years of education and years in occupation amongst the managers showed a positive correlation. Managers with more than 10 years of experience and a bachelor degree or higher were best able to use critical thinking skills. The authors found that an educational background was the foundation that helped the emergency managers think critically. Moreover, ability to apply critical thinking in emergency management will only get stronger as each individual progress through their