Deck 4: Fostering Successful Emergency Planning: A Planners Guide to Making It Work

Question 1

Emergency planning is the path for creating emergency preparedness.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Disaster subculture are protective behaviors used to deal with new disasters.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Emergency planners can control the size, budget, and staffing of the LEMA.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Effective emergency management leaders need do not need to be skilled in people and process mgmt.

Question 5

Strategic choice is a selection of goals, organization, and measures to ensure emergency planning success for the community.

Question 6

Team members team work and motivation are highest when members recognize planning targets as valid significant issues.

Question 7

LEMAs and LEPCs differ in their levels of effectiveness partly because of differences in their communities' resources.

Question 8

Publicity associated with the exercise informs the public about potential threats and may increase compliance during a disaster.

Question 9

When emergency management team members are committed to the success of vulnerability reduction motivation is high.

Question 10

A situational analysis is a managerial assessment of organizational strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities both internally and with respect to the organizational environment.

Question 11

A collection of coping patterns or protective behaviors that people have successfully used in the past to deal with a recurrent disaster is referred to as:

A) Disaster subculture
B) Survivor syndrome
C) Therapeutic community
D) Convergence

Question 12

A positive team climate promotes:

A) People changing jobs within the organization often for cross-training purposes
B) Frequent turnover
C) Meeting minimum standards
D) Higher job satisfaction

Question 13

The strategies for effective emergency planning administration include the following, except

A) Resource building.
B) Elite representation.
C) Constituency.
D) Facility development.

Question 14

Types of emergency planning exercises include the following, except:

A) Tabletop exercise.
B) Partial-scale exercise
C) Functional exercise
D) Full-scale exercise

Question 15

Support for emergency planning can be developed by explaining _____________ consequences to officials and arranging speakers for community organizations.

Question 16

Local planning effectiveness is higher with increased vertical links to ____________ agencies.

Question 17

In successful emergency planning, success is linked to having most of the work be done by ___________ professional staff.

Question 18

Formal and _______________ meetings are a key success factor for effective emergency planning.

Question 19

What does a jurisdictional capacity assessment measure?

Question 20

What factors limit the success of interorganizational relationships?

Question 21

What are the five components in organizational climate and why are they important?