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Stanley, Sharon A. R. "Regional mass fatality management in pandemic surge." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2008/Dec/08Dec%5FStanley.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2008.Thesis Advisor(s): Richter, Anke ; Supinski, Stanley B. "December 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on February 2, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-189). Also available in print.
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Таранюк, Леонід Миколайович, Леонид Николаевич Таранюк, Leonid Mykolaiovych Taraniuk, Каріна Вікторівна Таранюк, Карина Викторовна Таранюк, Karina Viktorivna Taraniuk, С. В. Шахова, and О. О. Єременко. "Crisis management in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2021. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/87010.
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В умовах глобальної пандемії формування системи ризик-менеджменту система відіграє все більш важливу роль для зменшення та запобігання майбутнім ризики. Основні праці зарубіжних та українських вчених стосуються ст розробка ефективних інструментів управління ризиками в умовах глобальних кризВ условиях глобальной пандемии формирование системы управления рисками система играет все более важную роль, чтобы уменьшить и предотвратить будущее риски. Основные работы зарубежных и украинских ученых относятся к разработка эффективных инструментов управления рисками в условиях глобальных кризисов
In the context of the global pandemic, the formation of a risk management system plays an increasingly important role in order to reduce and prevent future risks. The main works of foreign and Ukrainian scientists relate to the development of effective tools for risk management in global crises
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Таранюк, Каріна Вікторівна, Карина Викторовна Таранюк, Karina Viktorivna Taraniuk, Леонід Миколайович Таранюк, Леонид Николаевич Таранюк, Leonid Mykolaiovych Taraniuk, С. В. Шахова, and О. О. Єременко. "Сrisis management in the context of the Сovid-19 pandemic." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2021. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/86630.
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В умовах глобальної пандемії формування системи ризик-менеджменту відіграє все більш важливу роль з метою зниження та запобігання майбутніх ризиків. Основні роботи зарубіжних та українських вчених стосуються розробки ефективних інструментів управління ризиками в умовах глобальних криз.В условиях глобальной пандемии формирование системы управления рисками играет все более важную роль для снижения и предотвращения будущих рисков. Основные работы зарубежных и украинских ученых касаются разработки эффективных инструментов управления рисками в условиях глобальных кризисов.
In the context of the global pandemic, the formation of a risk management system plays an increasingly important role in order to reduce and prevent future risks. The main works of foreign and Ukrainian scientists relate to the development of effective tools for risk management in global crises.
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Hansell, Fredrik, and Axel Vällfors. "Demand Side Management : how has residential electricity demand changed during the corona pandemic?" Thesis, KTH, Energiteknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298849.
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Restrictive social distancing measures imposed by governments across the world to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have led to immediate changes in general behaviour and habits, which has had major effects on electricity systems. The pandemic has highlighted the great importance of reliable electricity supply in society as many people were forced to start working from home and thus became entirely reliant on digital modes of communication and information sharing. However, the resilience of energy systems could become weakened in the future as the share of intermittent renewable energy sources keeps increasing. If working from home were to become the norm in the future, knowing how households’ electricity load curves are affected by such a change could be valuable and help increase capabilities of demand side flexibility in the household sector. In this project, appliance-level electricity demand data gathered from Swedish households is used to create a simple bottom-up model. The purpose of the model is to be able to evaluate how the total electricity demand in a residential area changes after implementing behavioral changes at a household level. Specifically, the model was used to evaluate the effect of certain households in a region switching to working from home. Results were obtained from the model in the form of estimated changes in the electricity demand for different proportions of teleworking households. These changes were then combined with electricity demand data from a residential area in Stockholm to create new load curves that show what electricity demand could look like for the residential area at different shares of households working from home. The final results are presented in the form of estimated changes in electricity demand, peak power and electricity consumption for 30, 60 and 90 percent of households working from home.The results showed that weekdays' average load profile may have changed considerably in 2020 for residential areas similar to the one studied in Stockholm. For all scenarios, the change in electricity demand was most noticeable in the middle of the day, when the peak power increased significantly. During the evening, however, neither the electricity demand nor the power peak changed significantly. The peak power during normal working hours increased by 11,6% to 17,1% depending on the season, while total electricity consumption on an average weekday increased by 4,9% to 7,4% compared to pre-pandemic values. Still, the overall weekday power peak typically occurring around dinner time remained nearly unchanged. However, examining the results for different shares of households working from home shows that if almost all were to work from home, the overall peak power could shift from occurring in the evening to the middle of the day. If a new measurement campaign of Swedish households were to be conducted in the future, the ability to predict and prepare for the electricity demand of tomorrow’s homes would improve greatly.I ett försök att förhindra spridningen av viruset COVID-19 har länder världen över infört sociala restriktioner som i många fall medfört drastiska förändringar av invånarnas vanor och beteenden samt en omfattande påverkan på landets elsystem. Pandemin har framhävt vikten av tillförlitlig elförsörjning i samhället i och med att många har tvingats börja arbeta hemifrån och således blivit helt beroende av digital kommunikation och informationsdelning. Energisystemens motståndskraft kan dock komma att försvagas i framtiden i takt med att andelen intermittenta förnybara energikällor fortsätter att öka. Om distansarbete skulle bli det nya normala i framtiden kan det vara värdefullt att känna till hur det påverkar hushållens belastningskurvor. Kunskapen kan även bidra till ökade möjligheter för flexibilitet på efterfrågesidan i hushållssektorn. I det här projektet används elbehovsdata på apparatnivå från ett stort antal svenska hushåll för att skapa en enkel bottom-up-modell över hushålls elförbrukning. Modellens syfte är att genom implementering av beteendeförändringar på en hushållsnivå kunna utvärdera hur det totala elbehovet i ett bostadsområde förändras. Specifikt användes modellen för att utvärdera effekten av att vissa hushåll i en region går över till distansarbete. Resultat erhölls från modellen i form av uppskattade förändringar av elbehovet vid olika andelar distansarbetande hushåll. Dessaförändringar kombinerades sedan med elbehovsdata från ett bostadsområde i Stockholm för attskapa nya belastningskurvor som visar hur elbehovet kan se ut för bostadsområdet vid olikaandelar distansarbetande hushåll. De slutgiltiga resultaten presenteras i form av uppskattade förändringar av elbehov, effekttoppar och elförbrukning vid 30, 60 och 90 procents andel distansarbetande hushåll. Resultaten visade att vardagars genomsnittliga belastningsprofil kan ha förändrats markant under 2020 för bostadsområden likt den studerade i Stockholm. För samtliga scenarier var förändringen i elbehovet mest märkbar mitt på dagen då effekttoppen ökade avsevärt. Under kvällstid förändrades dock varken elbehovet eller effekttoppen avsevärt. Effekttoppen under normala arbetstider ökade mellan 11,6% och 17,1% beroende på årstid, medan elförbrukningenen genomsnittlig vardag ökade med mellan 4,9% och 7,4% jämfört med innan pandemin. Kvällens effekttopp, som vanligtvis inträffar runt middagstid, var i princip oförändrad. Däremot visar resultaten att i ett scenario där en mycket hög andel av befolkningen arbetar hemifrån kan den högsta effekttoppen inträffa mitt på dagen istället för på kvällen. För framtiden skulle en ny mätkampanj som kartlägger de svenska hushållens elförbrukning kunna medföra ökade möjligheter för samhället att förbereda sig inför och förutse morgondagens elbehov.
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Chaudhry, Chhaya S. "Emerging Diabetes Pandemic in India| A Case Study for an Integrative Approach." Thesis, Walden University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3665809.
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Every day, India sees the addition of 5,000 new cases of diabetes to its current diabetic population of 65 million people. This number is projected to cross the 100 million mark in 15 years. The emerging pandemic scale of diabetes growth is straining India's already-overburdened public healthcare resources. India is home to several well-established native and adapted foreign traditions of medicine that are widely practiced. These traditions include Ayurveda, yoga and naturopathy, unani, siddha, and homeopathy. The modern and traditional medicine approaches are extensively used as independent systems. The purpose of this qualitative research case study was to evaluate the use of an integrative approach to address the multiple challenges posed by diabetes in India. The research design for the case study was based on the theoretical framework of participatory action research. The research questions evaluated how the modern and traditional medicine systems can be jointly used to contain the spread, scale, and immensity of diabetes in India and examined the barriers and challenges in combining various systems of medicine. Data were collected from interviews with 30 modern and traditional medical practitioners and 6 policy makers identified through a stratified purposeful sampling process. The transcribed data were coded thematically and objectively analyzed. The trustworthiness of interpretations was bolstered with triangulation through records from notes and observations. In evaluating the feasibility of a synergistic and integrative approach, the study filled a gap in scholarly literature. The study contributes to social change by adding to the existing body of knowledge available to physicians and patients in preventing and containing the diabetes pandemic.
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Prieto, Diana. "Modeling and Surveillance of Pandemic Influenza Outbreaks." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3297.
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Pandemic outbreaks are unpredictable as to their virus strain, transmissibility, and impact on our quality of life. Hence, the decision support models for mitigation of pandemic outbreaks must be user-friendly and operational, and also incorporate valid estimates of disease transmissibility and severity. This dissertation research is aimed at 1) reviewing the existing pandemic simulation models to identify their implementation gaps with regard to usability and operability, and suggesting research remedies, 2) increasing operability of simulation models by calibrating them via an epidemiological model that estimates infection probabilities using viral shedding profiles of concurrent pandemic and seasonal influenza, and 3) developing a testing strategy for the state laboratories, with their limited capacities, to improve their ability to estimate evolving transmissibility parameters. Our review of literature (Aim 1) indicates the need to continue model enhancements in critical areas including updating of epidemiological data during a pandemic, smooth handling of large demographical databases, incorporation of a broader spectrum of social-behavioral aspects, and improvement of computational efficiency and accessibility. As regards the ease of calibration (Aim 2), we demonstrate that the simulation models, when driven by the infection probabilities obtained from our epidemiological model, accurately reproduce the disease transmissibility parameters. Assuming the availability of sufficient disease reporting infrastructure and strong compliance by both infected population and healthcare providers, our testing strategy (Aim 3) adequately supports characterization of real-time epidemiological parameters. Future research on this topic will be aimed at integrating the laboratory testing strategy with our modeling and simulation approach to develop dynamic mitigation strategies for pandemic outbreaks.
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Delaney, John. "Fire fighters' ability and willingness to participate in a pandemic." Thesis, Registration and login required, 2008. https://www.hsdl.org/homesec/docs/theses/08Mar_Delaney.pdf&code=0b11819a26de4946f5547907991d6aad.
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Adamopoulos, Emmanouil, and Wasim Malik. "Crisis Management and Early-Stage Greek Startups : The case of COVID-19 pandemic crisis." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446437.
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The COVID-19 pandemic had a worldwide economic effect, and it seems to have produced a challenging economic climate for startups to work in. Thus, the aim of this degree project is to investigate how startups survived the financial and organizational crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and what was the role of their employees during the crisis. The objective is to look at how early-stage startups in Greece are dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, whether they can utilize crisis management models, and how the crisis encourages creative destruction. Schumpeterian innovation theory has been merged with crisis management theories to achieve this goal. The thesis employs a qualitative methodology and uses a multiple case study design where cases are the individual startups interviewed. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with a top-management representative of each company. The results indicate that the startups under discussion are experiencing significant changes. At the beginning of the crisis, they faced a threatening disengagement and demotivation of their employees, which they managed to overcome by focusing on their wellbeing, coaching them, and guiding them through the crisis. The Caplanian model was utilized to analyze their approach. Based on the companies’ core competencies, they are actively pivoting to emerging business models and new markets. These companies are discovering new possibilities and innovating in a number of areas, following both the Schumpeterian evolutionary theories of creative destruction and creative accumulation. Overall, the findings suggest that in responding to the crisis, startups modified and strengthened their strategies. The shift in customer purchasing behavior was a major reason why businesses needed to develop their strategies. The modified consumer behavior was the outcome of actions taken by the Greek government and the Public Health Agency to avoid the spread of the virus such as social distancing, travel bans, and closed borders.
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Bergendahl, Andreas, and Maja Håkansson. "New Public Management och socialt arbete i en samtida pandemi." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-25274.
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Mot bakgrund av en kostsam välfärd och växande offentlig sektor implementeradeSverige New Public Management för att stävja kostnader och effektiviseravälfärden. I New Public Managements utbredning, 30 år senare, förefallerimplementeringen ha bidragit till en allt mer ohälsosam arbetsmiljö. Det socialaarbetet organiseras numera med hjälp av ständiga effektiviseringar, en tilltagandedokumentation och ett decentraliserat budgetansvar. Politiker har kritiseratmodellen då många välfärdsprofessioner insjuknar i miljön, och flera socialarbetareanvänder olika hanteringsstrategier för att hantera situationen. I dagsläget befinnersig det sociala arbetet i en ny situation på grund av ett globalt virusutbrott avCorona. Med pandemins omfattning följer också nya förutsättningar för det socialaarbetets praktik, där New Public Managements effektivitetsanspråk möjligtvis ståri motsättning till Folkhälsomyndighetens rekommendationer vad gäller reduktionenav smittspridning. Därmed är syftet med studien att undersöka vilken upplevelsesocialarbetare har av styrmekanismerna effektivitet, budget och dokumentation iden pågående Coronapandemin, samt vilka hanteringsstrategier enskildasocialarbetare använder när de navigerar i en miljö präglad av både New PublicManagement och pandemin. Datainsamlingen utgörs av åtta semi-struktureradeintervjuer, med socialarbetare inom Region Skåne och Socialtjänsten. Detempiriska materialet analyserades med hjälp av ett teoretiskt ramverk där helhetenutgörs av tre teorier; Gestaltpsykologi, Copingstrategier och den Naturligainställningen. Resultaten illustrerar att effektivitet, budget och dokumentation istora drag är lika styrande, dock förefaller inte styrmekanismerna upplevas avenskilda socialsekreterare på samma sätt som innan pandemin. Resultaten visarockså på en diskrepans mellan enskilda socialarbetares och ledningens upplevelseav effektivitet, budget och dokumentation, samt vad som blir viktigt under enpandemi. Resultaten visar också på att socialarbetare använder åtta olika typer avcopingstrategier i det praktiska arbetet. Slutligen, framgår tre lärdomar utifrånresultatet vad gäller: en organisatorisk oförberedelse inför pandemin, ett distanseratsocialt arbete och en trög byråkratisk omställning.New public Management was implemented as a response to growing welfare andan expensive public sector. 30 years later, the spread of New Public Managementappears to have contributed to an increasingly unhealthy working environment.Social work is now characterized with a big emphasis on continual efficiencyprojects, a growing burden of documentation and a decentralized budgetaryresponsibility due to this. Furthermore, numerous politicians have criticised themodel and many welfare professions become ill in this context. Therefore, socialworkers are using different coping strategies to cope with the organizationalsituations. Today the social work in Sweden is in a new situation due to the globalpandemic that came with the spread of the Coronavirus. This may affect how socialworkers experience and cope with New Public Managements focus on constantefficiency actions because there might be opposition between this andFolkhälsomyndighetens recommendation of curbing the spread of the Coronavirus.Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to study social workers experience ofefficiency, budget, documentation and which coping strategies social workers useto cope in a new context characterized by both New Public Management and apandemic. This study addresses the research problem with a qualitative method,more specifically, with help of semi-structured interviews. Eight interviews wereconducted with social workers within Region Skåne and Socialtjänsten. Empiricaldata is analysed with a holistic approach consisting of three theories: Gestaltpsychology, Coping strategies, and Natural Attitude. The results show thatefficiency, budget, and documentation govern to a certain extent, however, theyappear to be less important and meaningful to the individual social worker as beforethe pandemic. The results also show a discrepancy between individual socialworkers and management's views on efficiency, budget, documentation, and whatbecomes important to social work in a pandemic. The result also shows that socialworkers use eight different coping strategies in the practical sphere within thepandemic. Finally, there are three takeaways from the result, pertaining to: anunprepared organisation in relation to the pandemic, a distanced social work, and asluggish bureaucratic readjustment.
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Sundrani, Aamir (Aamir Sultan). "Understanding social amplification of risk : possible impact of an avian flu pandemic." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39680.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-75).
Today, stakeholders expect organizations to be able to endure external shocks. Hence, the real potential of an avian flu pandemic has many corporations developing business continuity plans for the disruptions that a pandemic may cause. For the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry, the major concerns of a pandemic include high employee absentee rates, lack of accessibility to the medical facilities, and disruption to the product supply chain. This work introduces social amplification of risk theory to evaluate the potential impact of a pandemic to a business due to heightened fear. It uses a case study of Genzyme Corporation and evaluates pandemic related risks to two of its major products. By applying a system dynamics framework to evaluate the mechanisms for the amplification of risks, a solution is proposed. The lessons introduced in this work can help organizations evaluate the true risks of catastrophic events.
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Jialing, Chen. "Crisis Management Strategies for Conference Business of Hotel Industry on Gotland under Global Pandemic COVID-19." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444760.
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With the outbreak of COVID-19, the number of physical conferences has decreased which impacts hotels’ revenue from conference business. In response to the decrease in conferences and conference revenue, hotels have developed strategies to manage the loss. For each hotel, they developed different strategies according to the situation they faced. This research is going to take hotels in Gotland as samples to find out the strategies that hotels have developed in response to the loss of conference business and how these strategies developed. The result of this research showed that there were two kinds of strategies hotels have developed which are proactive and inactive strategies. In addition, hotels’ perception of COVID-19 has an impact on the development of strategies.
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Lundberg, Sandra. "Att kommunicera med allmänheten i händelse av en pandemi : En fallstudie av ett landsting." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap (from 2013), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-29773.
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I april 2009 upptäcktes en ny typ av influensa som senare fick namnet A(H1N1). Influensan A(H1N1) innebar en internationell kris och krävde särskilda krishanteringsåtgärder. I Sverige innebar detta att den största nationella massvaccineringen i modern tid genomfördes under hösten 2009 till och med början av 2010. Hanteringen ställde myndigheter, landsting och ansvariga individer inför en rad utmaningar, inte minst gällande planering och kommunikation. Syftet med studien var att studera erfarenheter av och planering inför kriskommunikation vid en pandemi utifrån erfarenheter och uppfattningar hos ansvariga aktörer inom ett landsting. Sju personer som arbetade på olika positioner vid ett landsting intervjuades. Studien har identifierat tre huvudområden. Hur de ansvariga aktörerna beskrev planeringen och kommunikationen vid pandemin, vilka svårigheter och utmaningar aktörerna upplevt i och med kriskommunikationen samt vilka lärdomar och implementeringar som gjorts utifrån ansvariga aktörers erfarenheter. Det framkom att hanteringen fungerade enligt de uppsatta planerna trots att det påpekades att dessa endast skulle ses som en vägledning. Vid hantering av pandemin stötte landstinget på en del svårigheter och utmaningar och för att hantera dessa krävdes ett flexibelt tillvägagångssätt. Efter pandemihanteringen har landstinget samlat på sig lärdomar och idéer om förbättringsområden. Vissa av dessa idéer är redan implementerade i landstingets dagliga arbete och andra är nedskrivna i diverse planverk. Det finns dock lärdomar och erfarenheter som inte är dokumenterade, i dessa fall finns det en risk att lärdomar och erfarenheter lämnar organisationen i och med att medarbetare byts ut. En slutsats var vikten av att alla erfarenheter dokumenteras för att viktig information ska föras vidare till nya medarbetare.In April 2009 a new type of influenza was identified, which was named the A (H1N1). The influenza A (H1N1) resulted in an international crisis and called for specific management actions. In Sweden the largest national mass vaccination in modern times was conducted from autumn 2009 to early 2010. The crisis management posed authorities, county councils and responsible individuals to face a number of challenges, not to mention the current planning and communication. The purpose of this study was to study the experiences and planning for crisis communications during a pandemic based on experiences and perceptions of responsible actors within a county. Seven people who worked in various positions at the county were interviewed. The study has identified three main areas. How the responsible actors described the planning and communication in time of the pandemic, the difficulties and challenges experienced in the crisis communication by the actors and what lessons and implementations made by the responsible actors' experiences. It was revealed that the crisis management went according to the established plan, but it was also pointed out that the plans would only be seen as a guide. When handling the pandemic the County Council faced number of difficulties and challenges and to manage these a flexible approach was required. After the pandemic management the County Council has accumulated lessons and ideas on areas of improvement. Some of these ideas are already implemented in the daily work of the County Council and others are noted in various planning documents. However, there are lessons and experiences that are not documented, in these cases there is a risk that the lessons and experiences might leave the organization as employees are replaced. A conclusion was the importance that all experiences are documented so that important information will be passed on to new employees.
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Goss, Timothy. "Emergency Managers' Perceptions of All-Hazards Pandemic Planning Effectiveness in North Texas." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4445.
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All-hazards pandemic planning is the foundation of current emergency management planning doctrine, yet there is limited information and limited studies related to its effectiveness in mitigating pandemics. The North Texas emergency management community handles incidents of West Nile Virus, H1N1 influenza, and a recent Ebola incident. Despite efforts to mitigate these threats, reported cases and deaths are still occurring from both influenza and West Nile virus. The purpose of this case study was to assess the risk perceptions of emergency planners in a small emergency operation center in North Texas using the cultural theory of risk perception as the theoretical framework. The raw data for this study originated from qualitative semi structured interviews with five emergency managers. By way of qualitative hand coding and thematic extraction, four primary themes emerged from the data: (a) political/organizational climate, (b) emergency response, (c) training and experience, and (d) communication. Additionally, all themes yielded relevant subthemes. The all-hazards approach to pandemic planning was effective as long as planners swiftly adjusted or adapted their plan for individual emergency events. The emergency management community still struggles with ineffective communication, negative political influences, poor coordination, and training shortfalls. Lack of trust in the levels of government emerged as a potential underlying cause to many of the issues. These findings may promote positive social change by assisting emergency management planners in assessing communications, coordination, training, appropriate use of personnel, and to identify areas where lack of trust between community partners may be affecting the overall response effort.
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Johnson, Betty J. PhD. "Video Meetings in a Pandemic Era: Emotional Exhaustion, Stressors, and Coping." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1612609329629973.
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Kelmendi, Ariana, and Sejla Gicic. "Sweden’s budgetary responses to the Covid-19 pandemic : a multilevel governance perspective." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-20783.
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In the beginning of 2020, the world was struck by the Covid-19 pandemic that inhibited many economies. Sweden was chosen because of its unique case when responding to the Covid-19 spread by applying an open policy in contrast to the implementation of total lockdowns. The aim of this study is to explore the governmental budgetary responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden. To fulfil this aim, the study focuses on the multi-level governance relationships between different national and local actors in Sweden. In order to explore Sweden’s unique case, an inductive approach was carried out through netnography, mass-media analysis and document analysis in the period between January 31 and May 15. The theoretical frame of reference is based on multi-level governance and actor network theory. The study concludes that technology as a non-human actor has played a vital role when enhancing collaborations between different actors such as government, regions, municipalities, companies and universities, in order to minimize the infection spread and economic consequences of Covid-19. The study is a basis for continued research on the unexplored topic of crisis management of Covid-19 in Sweden.
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Modisenyane, Modisenyane. "Ecosystemic management strategies for dealing with the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic at school setting / Motsepuoa Magdeline Modisenyane." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1789.
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The objectives of this research were investigate the lived experiences of
school-going learners who are HIV-positive; and develop ecosystemic
management strategies to help learners who are HIV-positive.
The literature research investigation revealed that HIV/AIDS is not just a
health problem but also attacks the education system itself. Demand for
education is dropping and changing, many educators are ill and dying, and
the trauma of loss associated with HIV/AIDS is entrenched in South African
classrooms. The HIV/AIDS pandemic has a traumatic impact on all educators
and learners. The work of educators both those who are HIV positive and
those who have developed full-blown AIDS will be compromised by periods of
illness. The pandemic thrives on sexual violence, male domination and child
abuse in South Africa. It is the ecosystemic paradigm that helps in seeing the
connecting link between family-school-community-society-world or school and
peers and this helps in providing a more useful synergistic focus than trying to
work in isolation with discrete segments of a microsystem for example, with
an individual in isolation. Management strategies for dealing with HIV/AIDS
include the notion that achieving sustainability requires bringing together a
variety of legitimate stakeholders, drawing on a variety of accepted bodies of
knowledge, to negotiate a learning path based on a series of conflict
resolutions within ecological constraints. Continual learning based on free flow
of information and mutual respect, and investment in effective management of
HIV/AIDS are keys to success.
The empirical research investigation revealed that psychologically disturbed,
emotional well-being, spiritual well-being, physical well-being, social life, their
scholastic performance, daily routine, there is a change in their behaviour or
health after the HIV- positive status has been revealed, they fear of death,
their academic performance at school is affected by absenteeism and lack of
concentration, there is absence of strategies to assist learners who are absent
frequently because of illness, they loose valued level of functioning, lack
assistance at school, fear being discriminated or ridiculed, there is absence
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of measures to deal with discrimination at school, there is a lack of information
on HIV/AIDS, learners fear disclosing to friends and teachers, there is a lack
of communication between parents and infected learners about issues
regarding HIV/AIDS. Educators are also affected emotionally, spiritually and
physically. They become affected socially and they do not cope with the
impact of HIV. The level of communicating the HIV/AIDS pandemic within the
schools is low, the principals are not doing much as leaders to supplement
this low level of communicating about HIV/AIDS, school policies on HIV/AIDS
in these schools do not address issues of support for learners and educators
who are incapacitated because of HIV/AIDS, there is no monitoring tool used
in these schools to ensure HIV-policy adherence, principals in these schools
do not ensure that educators teach learners about matters pertaining to
HIV/AIDS, health programmes in these schools do not assist learners living
with HIV/AIDS within the school and the level of accepting and
accommodating infected learners and the personnel in these schools is low.
The level of involvement of community members in matters pertaining to
HIV/AIDS in these schools is low.
An ecosysternic management system is proposed in this research
viThesis (M.Ed.)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2008.
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Wideman, Brittany Nicole. "Grappling with the African E-Waste Pandemic: Contributing Factors and Future Deterrence." PDXScholar, 2019. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4828.
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Electronic waste is the fastest growing waste stream worldwide. Illegal methods of transport, indifference in legislative response, and public ignorance of what to do in response, all influence e-waste proliferation. This dirty industry of e-waste is hazardous to human health and well-being as well as the environment. Since this dirty industry has ballooned over the last few decades, two major questions arise: What are the primary and secondary factors that influence the proliferation of e-waste dumping in developing countries; and what structures are emerging to combat the e-waste problem in developing countries in Africa? The following pages will investigate the e-waste problem in Africa; Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa. I will show the role that small and medium industries play in managing the e-waste problem. Through a mass media search of key SMEs and organizations, I find that local enterprises are taking on an extended responsibility to find economic incentives in the e-waste industry and transform it from a vastly hazardous waste stream to a cooperative trade and flourishing industry. The results of these case studies illuminate how lax government regulation and involvement forces smaller businesses and organizations to emerge as the leaders in e-waste management.
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Schönborn, Elias. "Anti-corruption compliance in times of the Covid-19 pandemic: Criminal law risks and incentives for compliance-management-systems in the healthcare sector." Universität Leipzig, 2021. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A74480.
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In addition to a global endurance test for the health system, the Corona pandemic
triggered a tremendous social and economic crisis. Health professionals as well as
politicians and business managers have to make decisions with considerable consequences
under great time pressure. In this context, numerous international organizations
- including Transparency International, GRECO and IACA - point out
that the Corona crisis can be a breeding ground not only for conflicts of interest,
but also for corruption. Even though quick decisions have to be made at present, it is clear that the strict prohibitions on corruption must be fully observed also in
times of the Corona crisis. In order to avoid violations from the outset, existing compliance
systems should continuously be updated and adapted to the current situation.
This article begins with a description of possible forms of corruption in the
health care sector that are particularly relevant in the current times of crisis. Finally,
the article offers ideas for updates on the company's internal healthcare compliance
system with regard to anti-corruption.
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Addo, Richard Amankwah, and Giancarlo Mancuso. "To the Next Level : Influence of Social Media on Sport Organisations' Brand and Relationship Management during Global Pandemic." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-36210.
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Aim: The aim of the study is to investigate the influence of social media in building brand and relationship for sport organisations during a global pandemic. Methodology: The methodology in this study is built on a qualitative method based on a inductive approach. The authors conducted semi-structured interviews when interviewing the sports organisations and fans. Furthermore, a content analysis was employed as it served the aim of the study best. Findings & Conclusion: With regards to building the brand through the use of social media, findings showed that transparency, the history of the club and their image play a vital role in building a distinctive brand. With regards to building their relationship through the use of social media, findings showed that although efforts were made by the hockey clubs to interact and engage fans with various strategies, there was a lack of consistency in order to build their relationship with their fans. Thus, the findings of the study revealed that sport organisations have been able to build their brand as well as maintain their relationship with their fans during the global pandemic through the use of social media. Contribution of the Study: The study has both theoretical contributions and practical contributions. With regards to the theoretical contribution, the study introduces a framework that focuses on what factors influences the effectiveness of social media (SM) use for sports organizations to build their brand and relationship with their fans. Also, to the practical contribution, consistency in interacting and engaging with customers on SM should be a top priority for sport organisations’ relationship managers to build their relationship with fans on SM. Reflections on the Study and Suggestions for Future Research: As the study has been limited to three hockey clubs from Swedish Hockey League, the scope of the study could be broadened in future research. Also, conducting a quantitative method is recommended for future research to determine the link between interaction and engagement. Key Words: Relationship Building, Brand Building, Interaction, Engagement, Social Media, Sports Organisations
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Reinholdsson, Vivienne. "Distansarbete och lärande inom projekt : En studie om projektdeltagares upplevelse av kunskapsöverföring vid distansarbete." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Handelshögskolan (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-84508.
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Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur projektdeltagare upplever övergången till distansarbete som skedde i och med Covid-19 pandemin och om de upplever att det hade inflytande på kunskapsöverföringen i projekt. Genomen en kvalitativ ansats genomfördes semistrukturerade intervjuer med 10 projektdeltagare som sedan tematiskt analyserades. De teman som uppträdde var ”Ett tveeggat svärd”, ”Kompass i mörkret” samt ”Kalejdoskop av framtiden”. Resultatet visar att distansarbetet i hög grad uppskattas och att motivationen till kunskapsöverföring förblev oförändrade. De största utmaningarna är att den sociala aspekten i viss mån försvinner och det är svårare att tolka kroppsspråk och ansiktsuttryck. Slutsatsen är att oavsett digitala verktyg är det fortfarande människan som står i centrum, och digitala verktyg ska anpassas till att passa in i sin kontext och sitt syfte för att kunskapsöverföringen ska kunna bibehållas vid distansarbete.The purpose of this study is to examine how project participants experience the transition to remote work that took place with the Covid-19 pandemic and whether they experience that it had an influence on the knowledge transfer within projects. Through a qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 project participants, which were then thematically analyzed. The themes appeared were “A double-edged sword”, “Compass in the darkness” and “Kaleidoscope of the future”. The results show that remote work is greatly appreciated and that the motivation for knowledge transfer remained unchanged. The biggest challenges are that the social aspect disappears to some extent and it is more difficult to interpret body language and facial expressions. The conclusion is that regardless of digital tools, it is still the human beings who is at the center, and digital tools must be adapted to fit into their context and purpose so that the knowledge transfer can be maintained in remote work.
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Gicic, Sejla, and Ariana Kelmendi. "Sweden’s budgetary response to the Covid-19 pandemic : A Multi-level governance perspective." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-20798.
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In the beginning of 2020, the world was struck by the Covid-19 pandemic that inhibited many economies. Sweden was chosen because of its unique case when responding to the Covid-19 spread by applying an open policy in contrast to the implementation of total lockdowns. The aim of this study is to explore the governmental budgetary responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden. To fulfil this aim, the study focuses on the multi-level governance relationships between different national and local actors in Sweden. In order to explore Sweden’s unique case, an inductive approach was carried out through netnography, mass-media analysis and document analysis in the period between January 31 and May 15. The theoretical frame of reference is based on multi-level governance and actor network theory. The study concludes that technology as a non-human actor has played a vital role when enhancing collaborations between different actors such as government, regions, municipalities, companies and universities, in order to minimize the infection spread and economic consequences of Covid-19. The study is a basis for continued research on the unexplored topic of crisis management of Covid-19 in Sweden.
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Qiu, Wuqi. "Risk Communication for Emergency Management of Pandemic Prevention and Control in China: A Comparative Study of SARS and H7N9." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366443.
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Many large-scaled pandemics and disease outbreaks have been recorded in human history, causing enormous negative impacts on health, economies, and even affecting international security in the world. Recent years have seen many rapidly spreading outbreaks such as the Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, SARS, H5N1 influenza, H1N1 influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), Ebola and the Zika virus. Not all of these diseases are new, but population movements have increased in both scale and speed, so there are greater risks that infectious diseases will spread rapidly to multiple countries. Pandemic crises have had serious consequences on health, tourism, travel, trade and have even caused significant political and social disruptions. Thus, effective public health emergency management to prevent and control pandemics is very important.
For effective emergency management of pandemics, which are inherently unpredictable and widespread, preparedness, timely decision-making and comprehensive response involving relevant sectors are critical. But adequate preparedness and appropriate response rely on effective communication and coordination among stakeholders as well as the amount of information available at any given time, and these require a multi-sectoral approach with information sharing and communication as key tools for the prevention and management of infectious diseases outbreaks. However, multi-sectoral collaboration, coordination, information sharing and communication are often the key challenges and problems encountered in dealing with public health emergencies.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith School of Environment
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Urbonaite, Miglė. "Evaluation of non-pharmaceutical intervention effectiveness in Covid-19 pandemic by using excess mortality metric." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Miljövetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-46154.
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INTRODUCTION: The study focuses on finding a methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of the nonpharmaceutical intervention in the face of a new pathogen entering the population. Different interventions can have different effectiveness levels in different populations; thus, studying possible correlations and effectiveness among different groups is essential. With better knowledge of the topic, the outbreak management could be done more cost-effectively, reducing the need for antibiotics, vaccines, and possible reduction of infectious diseases caused burden in developing regions. Furthermore, the study aims to determine the ways of using excess mortality as an evaluation technique for nonpharmaceutical interventions used in the Covid-19 pandemic. METHOD: The variables in time-series format were used to calculate a cross-correlation score alongside other correlation coefficient tests. With the cross-correlation, the lag will be established to estimate how the variables correlate in the timeline. In addition, the study will attempt to establish the connections between different nonpharmaceutical interventions and their strengths and different age groups. RESULTS: The most frequent lag scores identified were 1 with 16 observations and 2 with 9 observations. The highest lag score was 4, which was observed once for the dataset of Hungary. The correlation between excess mortality and different harshness of NPI's was calculated. The correlation coefficient ranges from -0.3 to -0.39, indicating an overall low to medium correlation. The highest correlation was detected with stay-at-home requirements (-0.36), workplace closing (-0.37), and gathering restrictions (-0.39). In the final step, age-based correlations were established. The correlation ranged from 0.26 – 0.36, indicating an overall medium correlation. The lowest correlation can be seen in the youngest age group, 15-64 (correlation coefficient of 0.26), while the highest correlation of 0.36 can be seen in the 75-84 age group. Surprisingly the age group 85+ had a little lower correlation than the 75-84 age group. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: A stronger correlation between excess mortality and stringency index was detected in the countries with a higher death per capita. The two groups of intervention effectiveness were established: more effective (school closing, workplace closing, public event limitation, gathering restriction, and stay at home requirement) and less effective (public transport limitation, restriction on internal movement, international travel control, public information campaigns, protection of elderly campaigns). This suggests that NPI effectiveness depends on population size. In the age-group-based analysis, the correlation became stronger with the age increase, indicating nonpharmaceutical intervention effectiveness against high mortality in older adults.
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Baesch, Tobias. "Knowledge Management and ICT Adaptions as a Result of Pandemic Workplace Restrictions : A Case Study at a SME in Germany." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-37541.
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Aim. The purpose of this degree project was to assess the impact of the sudden, historically-unique COVID-19 workplace restrictions on the knowledge management and interrelated ICT utilization of a knowledge-intensive SME in Germany. Based upon the outcomes of this assessment, suggestions for future advancement were to be developed.Research Approach. The research approach entailed a qualitative case study addressing a single IT company with 42 employees. The research itself was conducted via triangulation, with the semi-structured interviews of four purposely sampled company executives serving as the focal part. Fundamental aspects of these interviews were further substantiated through four exploratory meeting observations and a company-wide questionnaire contributing 14 employee responses.Findings. Subject to the pandemic-related workspace restrictions, this company was forced to transition to predominantly virtual operations. The organization responded through the introduction of a new, integrated ICT for employee collaboration while simultaneously expediting the codification of tacit knowledge across two existing knowledge repositories. This focus on only a few essential ICTs led to a reduction of prior systems clutter and the company-wide accessibility of explicit knowledge – a quantum leap in terms of efficiency. Along with the primary collaboration via ICTs, a new interaction etiquette developed amongst employees, and IT-related staff was found to cooperate more actively than in the previous on-site environment. Given these insights, this German IT house is recommended to continue its emergently hybrid knowledge management strategy and consider the benefits of both the physical and virtual spaces for an office redesign past the COVID-19 limitations.Originality. Academic references attending to knowledge management during forced workplace restrictions were de facto nonexistent. Adding to it, previous studies on virtual knowledge management indicated a deterioration of performance as compared to on-site operations. This case study is hence not only unique by its pandemic link, but also countering apparent academic presupposition.
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Andersson, Linus, and Marcus Grönvall. "Ledarskap i krissituationer : En undersökning om covid-19-pandemins påverkanpå ledarskap." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-26530.
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Bakgrund: Covid-19-pandemin har ställt stora krav på arbetsplatserna. Tidigare forskning visar att organisationer påverkas på många olika sätt i krissituationer. Hur dessa kriser bemöts och hanteras av ledare kan vara avgörande för organisationens framtid. I och med att både ledarskap och kriser är svåra att definiera är ledarskapsrollen i kriser intressant samt aktuellt eftersom vii skrivande stund befinner oss mitt i covid-19-pandemin. Problem: Den snabba smittspridningen har ställt krav på arbetsplatser som i sin tur påverkatsmycket av detta. Tidigare rutiner och vanor kan inte följas på samma sätt som tidigare vilket kan skapa oro och problem inom företag. Det krävs hantering av situationen med covid-19-pandemin samtidigt som företag måste lyckas utföra sina vardagliga arbetsuppgifter föröverlevnad på lång sikt. Oavsett om den nya vardagen gynnar eller hämmar företag måsteåtgärder vidtas. Ledarna måste använda sina egenskaper för att hantera situationen på bästa möjliga sätt samtidigt som deras egna tankar och åsikter spelar mindre roll när det ställs krav på att saker och ting måste utföras på ett specifikt sätt. Det finns inte mycket erfarenheter som kan användas kring varje specifik kris eftersom en del är helt nya och unika krävs det att ledare är medvetna om vad som skulle kunna uppkomma och hur de ska agera. Ledare behöver besitta olika typer av kompetenser beroende på kris för att lyckas hantera den komplexa situationen som organisationen står inför. Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur ledarskapets utförande har påverkats undercovid-19-pandemin. Tanken med denna undersökning är att både involvera ledare och medarbetare. Utifrån ledare och medarbetare är målet att skapa en förståelse utifrån deras uppfattningar för att erhålla en tydligare bild på hur ledarskap faktiskt har påverkats av covid-19-pandemin. Metod: Vår forskningsstrategi var att genomföra en fallstudie för att skapa en större förståelse hur ledarskap påverkas vid krissituationer. I undersökningen används två kvalitativa metoderför att både få en bred och djup förståelse utifrån respondenterna. En avgränsning har gjorts i undersökningen till att undersöka en liten del av Volvo Lastvagnar AB och specifikt hur ledarskapet har påverkats inom denna del. Studiens resultat: Det är näst intill ingenting som är sig likt jämfört med ledarskapet innancovid-19-pandemin. Det som visat sig vara den största påverkande faktorn på ledarskapet harvarit distansarbete. Trots att ledarna inte upplever att ledarskapet fungerat bra upplevermedarbetarna det vilket visar att de finns olika uppfattningar kring detta område. Undersökningen visar även att det finns olika uppfattningar kring arbetsutförandet. Dessa olika uppfattningar har påverkat avdelningen positivt då det genererat flera nya lösningar på problem som uppstått. Medarbetarna har fått större ansvar för arbetsutförandet vilket har lett till merkreativa lösningar jämfört med tidigare. Genom att ledarna har givit mer ansvar tillmedarbetarna har det visat sig att deras livssituation påverkats positivt genom mer egenplanering av arbetet.The written language of this paper is Swedish. Background: The Covid-19 virus has come to demand huge requirements for all businesses. Research shows that different organizations has been affected in different ways during critical situations, how these situations is being answered and handled by the leaders can be crucial for the organizations future. However good leadership and critical situations is hard to define, the role of a leader during crisis is a very interesting subject in this moment when we are actually living during a pandemic right now. Problem: The quick development around the spread of infection has demanded a lot for companies. Old routines and habits can’t be followed in the same way as before which causes worries inside the company by the employees. Management around the pandemic situation are important and at the same time the company has to proceed and manage to keep their regular work going on and manage to survive at longer terms. Even though this new way of work gains or inhibits the company some measures have to take action. The leaders must use their knowledge to handle certain situations in the best possible way. At the same time their own thoughts and opinions does not play a role in this when the work must be dealt with in a specific way. There is not a lot of experience when it comes to handle a specific crisis because the crises are brand new and unique which means that the leaders have to be beware of what can show up and how to take action for it. A leader needs to have a lot of knowledge around different areas depending on the situation to actually manage the complex situation the organization is facing. Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to investigate the outcome of how leadership has been affected during the pandemic. The thought of this investigation is to involve leaders for the companies and also the employees. Our target is to create an understanding based on their thoughts on how to keep up a clear view on how good leadership actually has been affected during the pandemic. Method: Our research strategy was to implement a study that creates a bigger understanding on how leadership affects during a critical crisis. In this investigation we’ve used two qualitative methods to get a wider and deeper knowledge based on the respondents. During this investigation a boundary has been made during the research for a small part of the company Volvo Lastvagnar AB on how specific the leadership has been affected. The result: It’s basically nothing that is what it used to be when it comes to leadership compared to what it was before the pandemic. The study shows that the biggest element on leadership has been the distance work. The leaders do not believe that their style of leadership is doing great for the company, although if we ask the employees, they think it works which shows that there are a lot of different opinions in this area. The study shows that around during different working situations, there are a lot of opinions that actually affected the company positively because it has generated new and improved solutions on upcoming problems. The employees have been titled with more responsibility during work which has led to more creative solutions compared to earlier. By the bigger responsibility handed out by the leaders, the employees have a more positive feeling when it comes to life in general just because they have their own structure and planning of their work.
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Lindstedt, Patrik, and Pavle Karacic. "I covid-19 pandemins fotspår : En komparativ studie om hur elitidrottsklubbar kontra breddidrottsklubbar hanterat covid-19 pandemin." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45768.
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The purpose of this study is to examine how elite sports clubs and broad sports clubs inSweden, have been affected and managed the covid-19 pandemic. Also to do a comparative study in how broad-versus-elite sports clubs have been affected and handled the pandemic. The empirics were collected with the help from eight qualitative, semi-structured, digital interviews with various high-ranking people in eight different sports clubs. The essay is based on three different theories and models, namely Pettigrews model, the contingency theory and the situation-adapted leadership. The study shows a number of differences in how broad-versus-elite sports clubs have been affected and handled the pandemic. Elite sports clubs have been allowed to carry out their activities to a greater extent than the broad sports clubs. Financially, the broad sports clubs have performed better than the elite sports clubs. The motivation among the employees has been lower among the broad sports clubs during the pandemic. The management of the pandemic´s various effects has mainly been handled through an increased digitization process. In summary, it is possible to distinguish that the broad and elite sports clubs have been affected and handled the pandemic and the restrictions in different ways.Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur elitidrottsklubbar och breddidrottsklubbar i Sverige, har påverkats och hanterat covid-19 pandemin. Samt att göra en komparativ studie i hur bredd- kontra elitidrottsklubbarna har påverkats och hanterat covid-19 pandemin. Empirin samlades in med hjälp av åtta stycken kvalitativa, semi-strukturerade och digitala intervjuer med diverse högt uppsatta personer i åtta olika idrottsklubbar. Uppsatsen utgick ifrån tre olika teorier och modeller, nämligen Pettigrews modell, kontingensteorin och det situationsanpassade ledarskapet. Studie visar på ett antal skillnader i hur bredd- kontra elitidrottsklubbarna har påverkats och hanterat pandemin. Elitidrottsklubbarna har fått utöva sin verksamhet i större utsträckning än breddidrottsklubbarna. Ekonomiskt har breddidrottsklubbarna klarat sig bättre än elitidrottsklubbarna. Motivationen bland medarbetarna har varit lägre hos breddidrottsklubbarna under pandemin. Hantering av pandemins olika effekter har främst hanterats via en ökad digitaliseringsprocess. Sammanfattningsvis går det att urskilja att bredd- och elitidrottsklubbarna har påverkats och hanterat covid-19 pandemin och restriktionerna på olika sätt.
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Hedberg, Nilsson Lovisa, and Dennis Nordholm. "Conforming to the new normal : a case study of leading virtual teams during the COVID-19 pandemic." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-186993.
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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more companies are allowing their employees to work from home and consequently, impacts leadership. The purpose of this study is to investigate how managers in IT consultancies have experienced distance management during COVID-19 and what their key takeaways for the post-COVID-19 era are. The thesis has used a case study consisting of seven case companies, to answer the research question where the focus is on carefully selected managers as interview persons. Furthermore, with the help of a systematic literature review we have identified five main areas which are the basis for our theoretical framework. Throughout the study, the collected data is related to five main areas, which are: leadership, communication, trust, collaboration, and meetings. The key takeaways are the difficulties of leading a team over distance. Communication is more important than ever. How you best create a trustworthy workplace where the staff stands firm, trusts each other as well as maintain their cooperation at a distance are important and what approaches should be taken when it comes to virtual meetings. Lastly, this thesis contributes to the theoretical knowledge with the new framework and to the practical knowledge by providing guidelines for managers of virtual teams.
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Lorik, Topalli, and Janson Simon. "Innovation inom byggsektorn under Covid-19 pandemin." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för företagande, innovation och hållbarhet, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-45315.
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The past year has been a challenging year for all industries, including the constructionindustry. The construction industry is considered to have performed slightly better whencompared to other industries. With this in mind, despite the slow pace of change, theconstruction industry is still evolving innovatively to adapt its operations to the constraintsthat have emerged since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.The purpose of the work is to investigate whether the Covid-19 pandemic has contributed toinnovative growth in the construction sector. The survey will look at how different companieshave adapted to, and whether the changes that have been made are temporary or willdisappear when society returns to normal.The study was chosen to do with a qualitative method. The literature used has been necessaryto be able to first explain the concept of innovation, and later delve deeper into theimplementation of innovation through the innovation tree (Hardie & Newell 2011).What has emerged during this thesis is that the construction industry has been affected by thepandemic, but not to the same extent as other industries. This is done by introducing newwork processes such as working digitally.
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Hasanagic, Sanna. "The dark shadow of a world crisis : A study on how organizations in Östergötland county manage, organize and plan for the effects of the Corona pandemic 2020." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Turismvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-43584.
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Tourism in rural areas has an important role of developing and altering the rural communities when it comes to the environment, social and economic structures. Rural areas have high potential in tourism development but the world is continuously experiencing the power of nature. December 2019 the world experienced the beginning of the Corona pandemic that would later affect the whole world in just weeks. The Corona pandemic has caused many problems throughout the world but one sector that was specifically affected was the tourism sector. Even though crises are to some extent random and rare, there is no organization that is immune from such events. Unfortunately, many tourism-oriented organizations have been affected by this crisis and there has been a marginal decrease in bookings from previous years. The purpose of this study is to examinate how different organizations manage, organize and plan for crises in rural destinations in Östergötland county. The focus lies on organizations that are dependent on tourism and that use tourism as their main sources of income. The study has a qualitative research approach meaning qualitative semi-structured interviews with organizations in rural destinations. The main findings were that organizations in rural areas don’t have experience about crisis management and therefore don’t adapt it in their organization. In order for organizations to reorganize and plan for the crisis there need to be guides and routines on how the organization will achieve it. By having different plans for different crises, the organization can be better prepared for the next one. The important steps in the reorganization are communication strategy, controlling resources and collaboration with stakeholders. No matter how big or small the organization is, it is important for each organization to have an organization plan in order to tackle and reduce the consequences of a crisis.
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Scarciglia, Matteo <1993>. "Operational risk management applied to the COVID-19 pandemic: the impact on the automotive sector and the KIA Motors Europe case." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18769.
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Covid-19 is one of the major plagues the world’s population has ever been confronted with and the purpose of this research will be to analyze the devastating economic impact of this pandemic through an operational risk management point of view.
Small firms couldn’t cope with the effects of the pandemic and SMEs in general still are trying to find a way to save the business after severe losses and forced closures.
Multinational companies, on the other hand, have to respond to this new crisis in a different and maybe more complex way. The strategies, both short and long term oriented, that companies and industries will follow in order to recoup, will have a huge impact on the national and global economies and also will define the future of the various sectors.
Risk management comes back to have one of the most important roles in the different business environments, both in terms of promptness of the response and effectiveness of the strategies put in motion.
After approaching the topic step by step, this analysis will highlight the impacts on the different industries, trying to give a panoramic of the main hit ones.
One of the most hit industries was the automotive. This sector is characterized by continues changes and also has been facing a remarkable shrinking in the past years. Covid-19 put the ultimate challenge, forcing the production sites to shut down and the businesses to quicken up their decision-making processes.
Kia Motors Europe will be taken as study case to understand the critical bullet points of how a company should face the problem, analyse the risks and take decisions to be able to keep the business under control. The factors involved in this process are several and there is of course no ex-ante proper way to confront with a crisis like the one created by the coronavirus. Furthermore, to go deeper in the firm’s mentality, some interviews to Kia’s managers will be presented and the key points highlighted.
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Scarciglia, Matteo <1993>. "Operational risk management applied to the COVID-19 pandemic: the impact on the automotive sector and the KIA Motors Europe case." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18770.
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Covid-19 is one of the major plagues the world’s population has ever been confronted with and the purpose of this research will be to analyze the devastating economic impact of this pandemic through an operational risk management point of view.
Small firms couldn’t cope with the effects of the pandemic and SMEs in general still are trying to find a way to save the business after severe losses and forced closures.
Multinational companies, on the other hand, have to respond to this new crisis in a different and maybe more complex way. The strategies, both short and long term oriented, that companies and industries will follow in order to recoup, will have a huge impact on the national and global economies and also will define the future of the various sectors.
Risk management comes back to have one of the most important roles in the different business environments, both in terms of promptness of the response and effectiveness of the strategies put in motion.
After approaching the topic step by step, this analysis will highlight the impacts on the different industries, trying to give a panoramic of the main hit ones.
One of the most hit industries was the automotive. This sector is characterized by continues changes and also has been facing a remarkable shrinking in the past years. Covid-19 put the ultimate challenge, forcing the production sites to shut down and the businesses to quicken up their decision-making processes.
Kia Motors Europe will be taken as study case to understand the critical bullet points of how a company should face the problem, analyse the risks and take decisions to be able to keep the business under control. The factors involved in this process are several and there is of course no ex-ante proper way to confront with a crisis like the one created by the coronavirus. Furthermore, to go deeper in the firm’s mentality, some interviews to Kia’s managers will be presented and the key points highlighted.
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Lundell, Elvira, and Zsófia Varga. "Marketing Innovation During a Crisis : A case study on the responses of Swedish SMEs to the COVID-19 pandemic." Thesis, Jönköping University, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52689.
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Background: The economic crisis derived from the COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on the global economy and Swedish small and medium-sized enterprises are challenged to adapt their practices to the new consumer buying behaviour. As a response to economic crises, where consumer buying behaviour changes, companies are forced to innovate their marketing methods. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how Swedish SMEs manage the economic crisis derived from the COVID-19 pandemic through the relatively unexplored relationship between crisis management and marketing innovation. Method: This research is an exploratory qualitative study focusing on Swedish small and medium-sized enterprises where semi-structured interviews were held with seven participants who were marketing responsible. A thematic analysis was applied to analyse the empirical data. Conclusion: The empirical findings and the analysis suggest three main areas when answering the research question. 1) Marketing innovation improved the crisis management practice among the interviewed enterprises. 2) Marketing innovation is a common crisis management tool among the respondents of this study, and one reason why is because of the high capacity to innovate of the interviewees. 3) A new type of crisis management is arising because of the technological advancements and business climate.
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Scherling, Daniel, and Lind Daniel Camarero. "Digital Transformation and Virtual Team Transition due to the COVID-19 Pandemic : An Empirical Study on Virtual Teams within Organizational Change Management." Thesis, Jönköping University, IHH, ESOL (Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Organization, Leadership), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52750.
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Abstract Background: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic a series of regulations and recommendations were imposed. This resulted in firms transitioning their co-located teams into virtual teams in an effort to slow down and prevent the spread of COVID-19. This research focuses on the individual team member’s experience of the transition. The transition is a digital transformation and organizational change and its effects on the individual team member is being studied. Purpose: The purpose of this research study is to explore how individual team members experience the transition from a co-located team into a virtual team. Trust, communication and social interactions are previously known challenges for virtual teams. Therefore, we strive to explore how these aspects have been affected by the transition and how the individual team member has experienced it. Method: This study follows a qualitative research design and the method of choice is semi-structured interviews that have been carried out in a virtual environment due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Eleven interviewees have contributed to the empirical study. The main findings are presented in chapter 4 and analyzed against existing literature in chapter 5, to finally be concluded in chapter 6. Conclusion: Trust has previously been listed as a major challenge for virtual teams. However, our empirical findings have not identified trust as a major challenge and therefore contradict this. Communication has changed and the biggest two contributors to this is that the communication is digital and that body language becomes less effective in a virtual setting as compared to face-to-face communication. However, communication has not been a major issue during the transition but rather a complication. Social interactions were identified as the aspect affecting the team members the hardest since they had become non-existent except for in the virtual environment in many cases. A high level of digital maturity and the teams previously being co-located is seen to have made the transitions easier in terms of trust and communication. Furthermore, team members struggle to find their work life balance and often work more hours.
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Hallin, Henning. "Leadership at a distance : A qualitative study of managerial work at a distance during the COVID-19 pandemic." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-56024.
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The aim of this study was to investigate management and leadership at a distance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden. Eight managers from a large industrial company in Sweden currently working full time from home participated in the study, of which six were women. Semi structured interviews were carried out and the data was analyzed through thematic analysis which yielded 7 themes accompanied by 5 subthemes. Not being in the same physical space removes informal interactions, and to combat this, formalization has increased. Tasks that do not lend themselves well to formalization, such as getting a feel for co-worker’s emotional state or creative work, were found to be more difficult. The managers workdays had a high number of digital meetings, and their way of working was changed through digital adaptations. While the availability of quality social interactions with co-workers was down, digital meetings were used to keep interactions up within the work group. While work environment management was harder, work requiring heavy focus was described as more efficient when teleworking. Overall, the situation surrounding COVID-19 has been challenging for managers, but the digital space has evolved quickly, and work has still been able to function surprisingly well.
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Azawi, Athil, and Pegah Hassani. "Crisis Consultants & the Vastly Changing Environment : A deductive study of the crisis consultant's perceptions & the effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-447375.
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As the risk society has evolved, crisis management has become significant in order to survive a crisis. Crisis consultants have an important role in the risk society and organizations expects a whole lot from the profession. There is a gap in the research about the perceptions of crisis consultant’s role and expectancies in the risk society. Additionally, there is no research connected to the impact of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic on the profession of crisis consulting. The study aims to explore the crisis consultants view of and their role in the risk society. It also seeks to investigate how the crisis consultants have adapted to the Covid-19 pandemic. The study has been conducted through a qualitative case study consisting of various crisis consultants from diverse consultancies. The primary data consisted of eight semi-structured in- depth interviews. Crises in the risk society has become more complex due to the developing technology which has had an effect on the dispersion of information and personal exposures. Crisis consultants are expected to act as change agents who provides an outside perspective and pushes the client forward during crises. The Covid-19 pandemic has had no effect on the types of crisis and neither on the processes used by the crisis consultants. The shift lies within tools and certain procedures where social distancing and digitalization has become the new standard. Although the alterations have been challenging in some situations, the crisis consultants have still managed to fulfill their tasks and increase their workload.
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Lundin, Caroline, and Linnea Åsenlund. "Coping with a pandemic : A qualitative study investigating remote workers in Sweden's coping strategies from a self-leadership perspective." Thesis, Jönköping University, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-53153.
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Background: The pandemic Covid-19 has led to large-scale changes globally; in the workplace setting, it has entailed a distinct increase in remote work. For individuals to deal with organizational changes in the workplace has historically been considered a significant challenge. Therefore, it is essential to understand how individuals cope with these changes and drive themselves while working remotely. Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study was to develop a deeper understanding of how respondents in different organizations in Sweden coped with the change to remote work caused by Covid19 by viewing their coping strategies from a self-leadership perspective. In addition, the main affecting factors of this change process will be identified. Method: | Ontology: Relativism | Epistemology: Social Constructionism | Research Approach: Inductive | Data Collection: 12 Semi-Structured Interviews | Sampling: Purposive / Convenience | Data Analysis: Thematic Analysis | Conclusion: This study has developed a new terminology; Self-leadership coping strategies that showcase how the respondents of this study reacted, acted, and proactively coped with the change in the workplace setting due to Covid-19. Subsequently, challenging the passive view individuals have been assigned in previous literature and provided coping strategies in a new and highly relevant context. Additionally, three paradoxical affecting factors are presented and problematized.
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Swart, Petro Miemie. "Locked in, out and down: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on NCAA Division I international student-athletes." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami162681471330112.
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Shi, Pengyi. "Stochastic modeling and decision making in two healthcare applications: inpatient flow management and influenza pandemics." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/50367.
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Delivering health care services in an efficient and effective way has become a great challenge for many countries due to the aging population worldwide, rising health expenses, and increasingly complex healthcare delivery systems. It is widely recognized that models and analytical tools can aid decision-making at various levels of the healthcare delivery process, especially when decisions have to be made under uncertainty. This thesis employs stochastic models to improve decision-making under uncertainty in two specific healthcare settings: inpatient flow management and infectious disease modeling.
In Part I of this thesis, we study patient flow from the emergency department (ED) to hospital inpatient wards. This line of research aims to develop insights into effective inpatient flow management to reduce the waiting time for admission to inpatient wards from the ED. Delayed admission to inpatient wards, also known as ED boarding, has been identified as a key contributor to ED overcrowding and is a big challenge for many hospitals. Part I consists of three main chapters. In Chapter 2 we present an extensive empirical study of the inpatient department at our collaborating hospital. Motivated by this empirical study, in Chapter 3 we develop a high fidelity stochastic processing network model to capture inpatient flow with a focus on the transfer process from the ED to the wards. In Chapter 4 we devise a new analytical framework, two-time-scale analysis, to predict time-dependent performance measures for some simplified versions of our proposed model. We explore both exact Markov chain analysis and diffusion approximations.
Part I of the thesis makes contributions in three dimensions. First, we identify several novel features that need to be built into our proposed stochastic network model. With these features, our model is able to capture inpatient flow dynamics at hourly resolution and reproduce the empirical time-dependent performance measures, whereas traditional time-varying queueing models fail to do so. These features include unconventional non-i.i.d. (independently and identically distributed) service times, an overflow mechanism, and allocation delays. Second, our two-time-scale framework overcomes a number of challenges faced by existing analytical methods in analyzing models with these novel features. These challenges include time-varying arrivals and extremely long service times. Third, analyzing the developed stochastic network model generates a set of useful managerial insights, which allow hospital managers to (i) identify strategies to reduce the waiting time and (ii) evaluate the trade-off between the benefit of reducing ED congestion and the cost from implementing certain policies. In particular, we identify early discharge policies that can eliminate the excessively long waiting times for patients requesting beds in the morning.
In Part II of the thesis, we model the spread of influenza pandemics with a focus on identifying factors that may lead to multiple waves of outbreak. This line of research aims to provide insights and guidelines to public health officials in pandemic preparedness and response. In Chapter 6 we evaluate the impact of seasonality and viral mutation on the course of an influenza pandemic. In Chapter 7 we evaluate the impact of changes in social mixing patterns, particularly mass gatherings and holiday traveling, on the disease spread.
In Chapters 6 and 7 we develop agent-based simulation models to capture disease spread across both time and space, where each agent represents an individual with certain socio-demographic characteristics and mixing patterns. The important contribution of our models is that the viral transmission characteristics and social contact patterns, which determine the scale and velocity of the disease spread, are no longer static. Simulating the developed models, we study the effect of the starting season of a pandemic, timing and degree of viral mutation, and duration and scale of mass gatherings and holiday traveling on the disease spread. We identify possible scenarios under which multiple outbreaks can occur during an influenza pandemic. Our study can help public health officials and other decision-makers predict the entire course of an influenza pandemic based on emerging viral characteristics at the initial stage, determine what data to collect, foresee potential multiple waves of attack, and better prepare response plans and intervention strategies, such as postponing or cancelling public gathering events.
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Kakoulidis, Sharmineh, and Dekyi Hederstedt. "How the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the leadership and the direction of the organization." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för kvalitets- och maskinteknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-42964.
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Syftet med denna magisteruppsats har varit att utforska hur Covid-19 pandemin har påverkat ledarskapet och organisationens riktning. Covid-19 pandemin har påverkar olika delar av ledarskapet. Resultaten visar tydligt att chefer känner sig överbelastade eftersom de måste hantera många administrativa uppgifter och alternerande möten. På grund av brist på tid och balans mellan arbete och privatliv har förmågan att ha en helhetssyn, tolka och ta in perspektiv utifrån och in och inifrån och ut varit en utmaning för ledarna. Resultatet indikerar även på behovet av tydliga kommunikationskanaler mellan ledarna, de anställda och deras kunder om vilka åtgärder som krävs för att anpassa sig till den nya situationen som pandemin har medfört. Under pandemin har organisationerna tvingats att vidta snabba åtgärder baserat på föreskrifterna och begränsningarna från Folkhälsomyndigheten och regeringen. Etablerade digitala kanaler har använts men nya digitala kanaler har behövts identifieras för att skapa interaktion och relationer inom organisationen samt med kunderna. Den snabba omvandlingen till den digitala världen har påverkat organisationens riktning att tänka annorlunda, vara mer flexibel och anpassningsbar till nya oväntade förändringar, såsom pandemin. Organisationerna har använt nyckelindikatorer för att identifiera och få en tydlig bild av hur pandemin har påverkat organisationens riktning internt och externt gentemot sina kunder. Denna nya digitala omvandling har också tvingat kunderna att gå in på nya digitala plattformar och interagera online med organisationerna. Den nya digitala medvetenheten från kunderna har framkallat nya digitala krav och tjänster som i sin tur har resulterat i behov av nya digitala självservice tjänster och en högre och starkare digital kompetens från organisationens kundtjänst. En bidragande diskussion till organisationerna och samhället är att hänvisa till begreppet lönsamhet som en värdeskapande effekt som är hållbar över tid, kopplad till tre element: ledarskap, organisationens riktning och kundbehov.The purpose of this thesis has been to explore how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the leadership and the direction of the organization. The Covid-19 pandemic has affected various parts of the leadership. The results clearly indicate that managers feel overloaded since they have to handle a lot of administrative tasks and alternating meetings. Due to lack of time and balance between work and private life, the ability to have a holistic view, interpret and take in perspectives from outside-in and inside-out has been a challenge for the leaders. The results also indicated the need for clear communication between the leaders and the employees and their customers about what actions are required in order to adapt to the new situation that the pandemic has imposed. During the pandemic the organizations were forced to take fast action based on the regulations and restrictions from the Public Health Agency and the government. Established digital channels were used but new digital channels had to be identified to create interaction and relations within the organization and with the customers. The fast transformation to the digital world has affected the direction of the organization to think differently and be more flexible and adaptable to new unexpected changes, such as the pandemic. The organizations have used key indicators to identify and get a clear picture of how the pandemic has affected the direction of the organization internally and externally towards its customers. This new digital transformational shift has also forced the customers to enter new digital platforms and interact online with the organizations. The new digital awareness from the customers has induced new digital requirements and services which in turn have resulted in the need for new digital self-services and a higher and stronger digital competence from the organizations customer service. A contributing discussion to the organizations and to the society is to refer to the concept of profitability as a value-creating effect sustainable over time, connected by three elements: leadership, direction of the organization and customer need.
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Garipova, Dinara, and Allis Lilja. "“vi ställer inte in, utan vi ställer om” -En kvalitativ studie om ledarskap och digitalisering inom socialtjänsten till följd av covid-19." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-89963.
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The outbreak of the Covid-19 virus has greatly impacted all of Sweden. This has led to Schools closing and multiple organisations restructuring to offer their employees the ability to work from home. In this study we examine how the middle managements leadership at Social Services have been affected by the virus and the change from a predominantly analogue workplace, to an increasingly digital workplace. There is many organisations that has been affected by covid-19, but the Social Services is a clear example of a organisation that has faced many challenges.To define the research area, focus has been placed on how middle management within the Social Services have handled the readjustment, how the middle management finds the change has affected their leadership and the impact on social interactions within the group. Middle management constitutes an interesting position to study since middle management is located between higher management and collaborators. Previous research shows that virtual teams, groups working via web-based platforms, have a harder time connecting, which has increased the use of digital tools can lead to technostress. Using the qualitative research method, six interviews were conducted. From the data, it can be concluded that there has been a change in the middle management leadership when it comes to how they plan the incoming work tasks. The results also show that social interaction has changed, with the increased usage of digital work tools, highlighting a different type of interaction. In addition, it was found that more interpersonal type of meetings and lunch breaks with colleagues have stopped.Utbrottet av viruset covid-19 kom att ställa om det svenska samhället på flera plan. Skolor stängde och ett flertal organisationer ställde om sin verksamhet för att kunna erbjuda sina anställda att arbeta hemifrån. I den här studien undersöks hur mellanchefer på socialtjänsten anser att deras ledarskap påverkats av viruset covid-19 och hur den digitala omställningen påverkat sociala interaktioner. Det finns flera organisationer som har påverkats av covid-19 och som har fått ställa om men socialtjänsten är ett tydligt exempel på en organisation som har många utmaningar. För att avgränsa forskningsområdet är forskningen inriktad på hur mellanchefer inom socialtjänsten hanterat omställningen och hur mellancheferna anser att omställningen påverkat deras ledarskap och gruppens sociala interaktioner. Mellanchefer utgör en intressant position att studera då mellancheferna befinner sig mellan ledningen och sina medarbetare. Tidigare forskning visar att virtuella team, arbetsgrupper som arbetar via webbaserade plattformar, har svårare att knyta samman och att ökat arbete via digitala arbetsverktyg kan leda till ökad stress för de anställda. Med kvalitativ metod genomförde vi sex intervjuer och utifrån våra insamlade data dras slutsatsen att det skett en förändring i mellanchefernas ledarskap gällande hur de bland annat planerar och fördelar arbetet. Resultatet visar även att den sociala interaktionen förändrats och att de digitala arbetsredskapen möjliggjort en annan typ av interaktion men att mer personliga möten fallit bort.
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Rager, Lexi E. "The Impact of COVID-19 on Recruitment, Enrollment, and Freshman Expectations in Higher Education." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1597095836717798.
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Botelho, Heloisa. "Diálogos estudantis em tempo de pandemia Covid-19: gabinete virtual de estudantes de países de língua portuguesa para o desenvolvimento de habilidades de mediação de conflitos." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/31363.
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A educação e o papel da escola no século XXI são grandes desafios contemporâneos, numa sociedade marcada por intensa globalização, celeridade dos acontecimentos, transição digital e um crescente fenômeno social de violência. Esses aspectos aumentam os conflitos vivenciados em contextos educativos, que por sua vez, demandam novas aprendizagens, sobretudo, pautadas no paradigma que contemple saberes cognitivos, emocionais e sociais. Entretanto, torna-se vital ampliar a compreensão de conceitos, contextos e metodologias que promovam aprendizagem socioemocional aos estudantes, a fim de que tenham habilidades e competências para responder aos desafios contemporâneos, dentre esses gerir e mediar conflitos, sobretudo em contextos educativos. Assim, o estudo aqui apresentado, tem por objetivo desenvolver estratégia metodológica de intervenção junto aos estudantes, capacitando-os no desenvolvimento de competências e habilidades socioemocionais, para a gestão-mediação de conflitos e relações interpessoais em contexto educativo. Para tanto utilizou-se a metodologia de investigação-ação. Primeiramente, realizou-se o tratamento de dados e informações coletadas, a fim de fazer o levantamento sobre os conflitos na aprendizagem, as estratégias de gestão e os recursos socioemocionais conhecidos pelos estudantes participantes. Esse levantamento direcionou a ação de intervenção por meio de formação e constituição de Gabinete Virtual de Estudantes de Países de Língua Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento de Habilidades de Mediação de Conflitos, composto por 22 jovens de ensino secundário, de três continentes oriundos dos seguintes países de língua portuguesa: Angola, Brasil, Cabo Verde, Moçambique, Portugal e São Tomé e Príncipe. A formação teve abordagem colaborativa, usou metodologias ativas centradas na promoção de aprendizagens socioemocionais e gestão de conflitos. No decorrer da formação aferiu-se a aprendizagem, para verificar o cumprimento de objetivos e metas. Ao final aplicou-se questionário de avalição da formação e aprendizagem. O resultado indicou efeitos positivos da intervenção, pois a análise de dados demonstrou mudança significativa no uso das estratégias e eficácia da aplicabilidade no cotidiano dos estudantes, melhoria nas relações interpessoais, mudança na percepção e
consequente diminuição de conflitos vivenciados. No decorrer da intervenção originou-se desdobramento, propiciando novas ações de intervenção agregando novas aprendizagens e novos sujeitos. Dessa forma o resultado demonstrou a eficácia e relevância da investigação titulada: “Diálogos Estudantis em tempos de pandemia COVID-19 Gabinete Virtual de Estudantes de Países de Língua Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento de Habilidades de Mediação de Conflitos”; STUDENT DIALOGUES IN TIMES OF COVID-19 PANDEMICS: STUDENTS'
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Education and the role of schools in the 21st century are major contemporary challenges, in a society marked by intense globalization, speed of events, digital transition and a growing social phenomenon of violence. These aspects increase the conflicts experienced in educational contexts, which, in turn, demand new learning, above all, based on the paradigm that includes cognitive, emotional and social knowledge. However, it is vital to broaden the understanding of concepts, contexts and methodologies that promote socio-emotional learning for students, so that they have skills and competences to respond to contemporary challenges, including managing and mediating conflicts, especially in educational contexts. Thus, the study presented here aims to develop a methodological intervention strategy with students, enabling them to develop socio-emotional skills and competences, for the management-mediation of conflicts and interpersonal relationships in an educational context. For this purpose, the action-research methodology was used. First, the data and information collected were processed in order to survey the conflicts in learning, the management strategies and the socio-emotional resources known by the participating students. This survey directed the intervention action through the formation and constitution of a Virtual Cabinet of Students from Portuguese-Speaking Countries for the Development of Conflict Mediation Skills, composed of 22 secondary school young people from three continents from the following Portuguese-speaking countries Portuguese: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe. The training had a collaborative approach, using active methodologies focused on promoting socio-emotional learning and conflict management. During the training, learning was measured to verify the fulfillment of objectives and goals. At the end, a training and learning evaluation questionnaire was applied. The result indicated positive effects of the intervention, as the data analysis
showed a significant change in the use of strategies and effectiveness of applicability in the students' daily lives, improvement in interpersonal relationships, change in perception and consequent reduction of conflicts experienced. In the course of the intervention, an unfolding originated, providing new intervention actions, adding new learning and new subjects. In this way, the result demonstrated the effectiveness and relevance of the investigation entitled: “Student Dialogues in times of the COVID-19 pandemic Virtual Office of Students from Portuguese-Speaking Countries for the Development of Conflict Mediation Skills”.
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Aberle, Nathalie, and Mayke Martijntje Hoekstra. "Resilience Based Crisis Management in Public Educational Institutions at the Time of Global Pandemic of COVID-19 : The Implication for Ensuring SDG 4." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18454.
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Purpose: The pursuance of the sustainable development goals, introduced by the United Nations in2015, is of absolute necessity to build a sustainable future. Resilience-based crisis management helps tosustain an organisation and pursue its goal during crises. The aim of this research was to explore thestatus quo of resilience-based crisis management within public primary- and secondary schools in theNetherlands during school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the aim was todiscover which measures were in place to safeguard the provision of SDG 4. The exploration took placeto observe the adaptation capabilities within the educational sector, which could safeguard the provisionof SDG 4. Methodology: The aim was pursued by a qualitative approach. 17 semi-structured interviews with 18people were conducted during the time of the immediate Coronavirus crisis. All interviewees heldpositions within the crisis management of primary- and secondary schools in the Netherlands. Theinterviews were then analysed by the two researchers using thematic content analysis. Results: The results suggest that:(a) Crisis management structures in the schools foster resilience, yet, leave room for improvement;(b) Crisis management processes to foster resilience are present in the schools, however, the extentvaries and especially the pre-crisis actions were limited;(c) The sustainable development goals, especially the content of SDG 4, are little known in the schools;(d) Actions and measures to provide equitable and qualitative education during the temporary schoolclosures are in place. Implications: This research adds to the young field of crisis management within schools during schoolclosures as well as the provision of SDG 4 during crises through resilience-based crisis management.Since this research is of exploratory nature, many future research opportunities derive from this research.Furthermore, it discovered the strengths and challenges of the Dutch primary and secondary educationsector and gives room for development through education on SDG 4 and resilience-based crisismanagement.
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von, Zweigbergk Maria. "Emergency Distance Teaching during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic : Narratives from upper secondary school teachers in Sweden." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap (HV), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-104566.
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Background: In March 2020, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, suddenly and completely unexpected, governments worldwide replaced face-to-face education with emergency distance teaching. Studies showed that students and teachers, in general, had been negatively affected by the strategy. Upper secondary school teachers and students in Sweden were affected and have now worked and studied from home for more than one year. Problem: Teachers were now asked to do extraordinary things regarding course delivery and learning. However, school curricula have not changed, and it has been up to the teachers to adapt their teaching to fulfil the curricula. Few studies provided teachers’ perspectives on this extraordinary situation and why it was essential to enter the teacher’s world and determine how this affected them and their work. Aim: The purpose of this study was to explore the Swedish upper secondary school teachers' experiences of Emergency Distance Teaching during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. Three research questions were considered sufficient to answer this aim. Method: A qualitative narrative design captured the lived experiences of Swedish upper secondary school teachers. Stories from two teachers that worked in two different school contexts were collected. Result: The stories were personal, emotional, and revealing and answered the research questions. The Qualitative content analysis identified three themes: (1) Distant and Remote Communication, (2) Key are to be Present, Kind, and Innovative, and (3) Trials. Both teachers' most decisive change and challenges were the difficulties they experienced with maintaining connectedness and the interrupted teacher-student relationship, which was especially difficult in vocational programs. The result surprisingly showed that some students had benefitted from EDT and showed higher attendance than before. The stories showed how the teachers struggled to be creative to fulfil students' vital needs and often used outside-box strategies to manage. The teachers also showed how they felt lonely and how this had affected their job satisfaction and well-being. Significant, was that the result showed that the teachers had gained new skills and knowledge of how to handle the best teaching during school closure, even if it were not the teaching that they would prefer. Conclusion: Remote and distance teaching will become increasingly important in the future, considering Anthropogenic Climate Change. There is a strong call for a holistic transdisciplinary approach to identify and manage the organizational and psychological impacts of EDT on Swedish upper secondary school teachers. Strategies specifically targeting teachers working with vocational programs and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds are needed to avoid exacerbating existing disparities. Teachers required close contact with their students to have job satisfaction and they needed to be included and receive clear support, trust, and guidelines from school management.
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Tjong, Feliani. "Exploring the factors that affect senior hotel managers’ intentions towards future crisis planning: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2022. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2596.
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The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the tourism and hospitality industry. Hotel managers feel uncertain facing this situation where the hospitality industry struggles to survive. Evidently, changes in crisis management and crisis planning practices are needed as the global pandemic continues to affect the industry. Most past studies put more emphasis on the crisis response and recovery rather than pre-crisis stage. Further, despite the negative impacts that crises,such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have on the industry, hotel managers have continued to show limited attention towards crisis planning. Therefore, this study aims to explore the pre-crisis stage through the lens of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), specifically, by gaining a deeper understanding about attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behaviour, in relation to the additional variables of perceived risk and past behaviour, in exploring the Senior Hotel Managers’ intentions towards future crisis planning. The TPB model was evolved through the addition of the two variables of perceived risk and past behaviour, in response to extant calls for researchers to further develop the TPB model.
This exploratory study involved a qualitative methodology which was founded on 21 semi-structured online interviews with Senior Hotel Managers of quarantine hotels in Western Australia. Online interviews were the only option available at the time this study was conducted which was during the COVID-19 pandemic year of 2021, where strict government guidelines, protocols and restrictions needed to be followed. A combination of non-probability convenience, purposive, and snowball sampling methods were used to recruit participants. The study gathered information from knowledgeable and experienced participants who had experienced the phenomenon that is being studied and helped to answer this study’s research questions. Senior Hotel Managers were chosen based on the following criteria: (1) Senior Hotel Managers who have worked or were presently working in quarantine hotels in Western Australia; (2) hotels that have been used or were presently being used as a quarantine facility; and (3) participants have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the data was unstructured and qualitative in nature, a computer-driven qualitative data analysis program which used machine learning to perform thematic analysis for the purposes of exploring the data, was used. Leximancer was the program which was used to identify common themes and key concepts that emerged from the data. Results showed that positive attitudes, reference groups, perceived difficulties, perceived risks, and past behaviour were considered as the factors which influenced Senior Hotel Managers’ intentions towards future crisis planning.In summary, results from this study identified five attitudes (crisis, closure, people, procedures, and timeline), four important reference groups (crisis committee, colleagues, government, and external individuals), four perceived difficulties (human resources, colleagues, time, and ambiguity), four perceived risks (human risk, management risk, and environmental risk), and three past behaviour (crisis experience, awareness, and future crisis) that played a role in the Senior Hotel Managers’ crisis planning intentions. These findings present vital theoretical and industry implications, and proffer important guidelines for future research and practices for improving future crisis planning in the hotel industry. These findings also provide lessons to other industries outside the hotel industry, and other countries beyond Australia, which can be immensely valuable during a crisis, such as the present COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ekman, Erika, and Jacqueline Carlsson. "När köksbordet blir till undervisningssal : En kvalitativ studie om hur högskolelärares arbetstillfredsställelse påverkats av ett påtvingat distansarbete." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-25719.
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On March 18, 2020, colleges and universities closed as a measure to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 virus, and thus both teachers and students were quickly notified that lecture would be carried out at a distance. One year later, telework is still a fact, the rapid readjustment has become a protracted crisis. This study aims to investigate how job satisfaction among teachers has been affected as a result of working remotely. The study aims to contribute with an insight into how an extensive crisis as well as forced telework affects employees. The study hopes to shed some light on what leaders within the University need to offer, to maintain job satisfaction during telework as well as in a crisis. The study was conducted using a qualitative method, with 18 semi-structured interviews, with teachers at the University of Borås and Jönköping. The collected material has then been analyzed and structured using a thematic content analysis. The study's results indicate that distance work has both positive and negative effects. The positive effects are described, among other things, as reduced commuting and increased insight into digital tools, which may facilitate and improve traditional teaching. The results further show that the main negative effect is social isolation, which arises as an effect of the physical distance. Social isolation leads to lack of social contact with colleagues and students. Furthermore, the social isolation entails an increased workload, the work itself is described as boring in comparison to the traditional working environment. The interaction with students is reduced when the lectures are carried out digitally, which is reported to have a negative effect on some learning elements. The telework in its forced shape, leads to an increase in requested emotional support than in studies who have studied the effect of voluntary telework. The results also show that job satisfaction is currently relatively unchanged, however, this is considered to be due to the fact that the situation is still seen as temporary. The teachers point out that if they thought that teleworking was the new normal, their job satisfaction as well as motivation would have decreased. The study concludes that the lack of social contact with both colleagues and students has led to teachers experiencing increased fatigue. Thus, the study shows that teachers are in need of recovery, as well as increased support, regardless if the education returns to campus during the fall or not.Den 18:e mars 2020 stängde högskolor och universitet som en åtgärd för att minska smittspridningen. Undervisningen ställdes snabbt om från fysisk till distans, 1 år senare är distansundervisningen fortfarande ett faktum, en snabb omställning har blivit en långdragen krissituation. Studien syftar att utifrån ett medarbetarperspektiv undersöka hur arbetstillfredsställelsen hos lärare inom Högskolan har påverkats till följderna av distansarbetet. På så sätt syftar studien till att bidra med insikt i hur en omfattande krissituation, såväl som ett påtvingat distansarbete påverkar lärare inom Högskolan. Studien har använt sig av en kvalitativ metod, med 18 semistrukturerade intervjuer med lärare vid Högskolan i Borås och Jönköping. Det insamlade materialet har analyserats samt struktureras med hjälp av en tematisk innehållsanalys. Studiens resultat visar att distansarbetet medfört såväl positiva som negativa effekter. Det positiva effekterna beskrivs bland annat vara minskad pendling samt ökad insikt i digitala verktyg, vilket kan komma att underlätta och förbättra den traditionella undervisningen. Resultatet visar vidare att den främsta negativa effekten är den sociala isolationen, vilket är en effekt av den fysiska distansen. Den sociala isolationen resulterar i brist på kontakt med kollegor och studenter. Vidare har distansarbetet medfört en ökad arbetsbelastning, att arbetet upplevs tråkigare samt att interaktionen med studenterna går förlorad, vilket anses påverka läromomentet. Det påtvingade distansarbetet har visat sig leda till att ett emotionellt stöd efterfrågas i högre utsträckning än vid ett frivilligt distansarbete. Resultatet visar vidare att att arbetstillfredsställelse i dagsläget är relativt oförändrad, dock anses det bero på att situationen fortfarande ses som tillfällig. Lärarna poängterar att om de trodde att distansarbetet var det nya normala hade deras arbetstillfredsställelse såväl som motivation minskat. Studiens slutsats poängterar att bristen på social kontakt med såväl kollegor som studenter har lett till att lärarna upplever en ökad trötthet. Därmed påvisar studien att lärarna är i behov av återhämtning, såväl som ökat stöd - oavsett om undervisningen går tillbaka till campus i höst eller inte.
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Engelbrektsson, Denise, and Emelie Magnusson. "En sjukhusmottagnings hantering av ledarskap under Covid-19 : Med fokus på chefer och medarbetares uppfattning." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för handel och företagande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-20027.
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Att vara ledare inom den offentliga sektorn vid en mottagning på ett akutsjukhus mitt under en rådande pandemi skapar svårigheter. Då arbetet måste fortsätta fungera som vanligt i organisationen, trots den stora globala spridningen av Covid-19-viruset. I fokus ligger mottagningens två enhetschefer och deras arbete att leda sin arbetsgrupp för en trygg och säker arbetsplats som också ska vara patientsäkert. Störst fokus i uppsatsen ligger på hur enhetscheferna och medarbetarna arbetade under våren år 2020. Uppsatsen utgår från genomförda intervjuer två enhetscheferna och deras syn på hur det har varit att leda sin arbetsgrupp under en pandemi. Det har även gjorts en enkätundersökning, som syftade till att integrera medarbetarnas syner på ledarskapet då bredden av tillfrågade bidrar till en intressant aspekt i uppsatsen. Studiens syfte är att få en förståelse kring om ledarskapet förändras under en kris och hur ledarna tillsammans med medarbetarna tar sig an en sådan uppgift. Studien är baserad på kvalitativ och kvantitativ forskningsmetod. Resultatet av studien visar att enhetscheferna ansåg att kommunikationen var den största svårigheten och förändringen på mottagningen. Genom att alltid ha öppna kontorsdörrar ville de visa sina medarbetare att de var välkomna in, exempelvis om de kände sig oroliga eller hade ett ämne att diskutera. Enhetschefernas tanke med detta var att de bidrar till en gemenskap då alla fysiska möten varit inställda och mycket social kontakt fått stå tillbaka under pandemin. Detta på grund av de restriktioner som funnits angående hur många personer som får samlas i grupp.Being a leader in the public sector at a ward in an emergency hospital in the midst of a prevailing pandemic creates difficulties. The work must continue to function as usual in the organization, despite the large global spread of the Covid-19 virus. The focus is on the ward's two unit managers and their work to lead their working group for a safe and secure workplace that must also be patient-safe. The biggest focus in the essay is on how the unit managers and employees worked during the spring of 2020. The essay is based on conducted interviews with the two unit managers and their views on what it has been like to lead their working group during a pandemic. A survey was also conducted, which aimed to integrate employees' views on leadership as the width contributes to an interesting aspect of the essay. The purpose of the study is to gain an understanding of whether leadership changes during a crisis and how leaders, together with employees, take on such a task. The study is based on qualitative and quantitative research methods. The results of the study show that the unit managers considered that communication was the biggest difficulty and change in the ward. By always having open office doors, they wanted to show their employees that they were welcome, for example if they felt worried or had a topic to discuss. The unit managers' idea with this was that they contribute to a community when all physical meetings have been canceled and a lot of social contact has been left behind during the pandemic. This is due to the restrictions that have existed regarding how many people can gather in a group.
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Santana, Reynoso Alfredo. "Decision Aid Models for Resource Sharing Strategies During Global Influenza Pandemics." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3331.
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Pandemic influenza outbreaks have historically entailed significant societal and economic disruptions. Today, our quality of life is threatened by our inadequate preparedness for the imminent pandemic. The key challenges we are facing stem from a significant uncertainty in virus epidemiology, limited response resources, inadequate international collaboration, and the lack of appropriate science-based decision support tools. The existing literature falls short of comprehensive models for global pandemic spread and mitigation which incorporate the heterogeneity of the world regions and realistic travel networks. In addition, there exist virtually no studies which quantify the impact of resource sharing strategies among multiple countries. This dissertation presents three related models that contribute to filling the existing vacuum. The first model develops optimal capacity management strategies for multi-region pandemic surveillance. The second model estimates the pandemic propagation time from the onset to a likely pandemic export region, such as a major transportation hub. The model builds on a large-scale agent-based simulation and geographic information systems (GIS). The model is tested on a hypothetical outbreak in Mexico involving 155 regions and over 100 million people. The third model develops an empirical relationship to quantify the impact of various U.S. - Mexico antiviral sharing strategies under several pandemic detection and response scenarios.
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Badiale, Maria Eugenia. "The dynamics of communication in global virtual software development teams : A case study in the agile context during the Covid-19 pandemic." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413832.
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The increase of globalization of business led to the creation of global virtual software development teams in which communication plays an important role. The lack of recent studies raises the need to investigate communication in the context of agile and the current Covid-19 pandemic. This study identifies in literature three factors present in global virtual software development teams: technology, culture, and trust. It aims to explore how they influence internal communication. A qualitative method is conducted on a case study by combining data collected from semi-structured interviews and observations. The case study is a global virtual software development team which implemented the agile Scrum methodology. The findings provide a deep understanding of the positive and negative influences of the factors on communication, including their interrelations and context. Some of the main findings are: (I) the best set up for collaboration among global team members is the combination of synchronous and asynchronous communication through technological tools, (II) cultural diversity leads to differences in the ways members communicate, (III) trust is the precondition of working collaboratively and communicating effectively, (IV) global team members need to occasionally have in-person interactions to nurture their interpersonal relations, (V) the agile Scrum methodology influences internal communication positively, (VI) each communication factor is influenced by time; thus, the theoretical framework developed for this study is updated with this addition, (VII) the Covid- 19 pandemic affects communication to a certain extent.
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Berglund, Oscar, Hugo Widorson, and Viktor Segerqvist. "Aspects of Crisis Management to Consider when Operating Remotely : A multiple case study on how companies adjust into a remote setting as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic." Thesis, Jönköping University, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-53062.
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Abstract Background: Crisis management has become a highly relevant topic by virtue of the COVID- 19 pandemic. As a result, organizations have been forced to implement preventive actions to mitigate its impact. One of these implementations has been the enforced advancements for companies to readjust their businesses remotely. With remote working being a rather seldomly used practice for most organizations, managers are encouraged to enact and adopt quickly for their business to continue. Purpose: This thesis aims to explore how managers of Swedish manufacturing firms handle organizational crises in a remote-working environment. Method: This research follows a qualitative research method with an abductive approach. The findings are retrieved from conducted semi-structured interviews with eight managers in two different companies, which is then connected to relevant literature. Conclusion: Findings show of great importance for managers to focus on communication with their employees. Implications of the crisis are ambiguous. Manufacturing firms in Sweden have experienced increased productivity at the expense of their employee’s well-being. Given that the future point towards increased usage of remote working, it is crucial for managers to focal their business on combining the benefits with the drawbacks and thereby successfully adjust to a digital working environment.