Browsing by Author "Kreps, Gary A."
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Item Decision Making Under Conditions Of Uncertainty: Civil Disturbance And Organizational Change In Urban Police And Fire Departments(Disaster Research Center, 1973) Kreps, Gary A.Item Organizational Change Within A Community Conflict Enviroment(Disaster Research Center, 1970-06) Kreps, Gary A.Item Organizational Change Within a Community Conflict Environment(Disaster Research Center, 1970) Wenger, Dennis E.; Kreps, Gary A.Item Organizational Innovation in Anticipation of Crisis: Some Possible Studies(Disaster Research Center, 1971-06) Weller, Jack M.; Kreps, Gary A.Item Organizational Innovations in Crisis-Relevant Groups(Disaster Research Center, 1971) Kreps, Gary A.The following reports from the first of a two-phase study of change in crisis-relevant organizations brought about by the possibility or occurrence of civil disorder. Based upon some preliminary observations of selected urban police and fire departments, this first phase summarizes a middle range theoretical model developed in an effort to capture the process of change when charter is threatened in an indeterminant environment. The second phase (presently ongoing) empirically examines and refines the model. As stated, the model is based on studies of change in crisis-relevant organizations as adaptations to the problems posed by the possibility of civil unrest. Organizationally, we suggest that change can be conceptualized as an intelligence processing activity, i.e., bringing technical and political information to bear upon the definition and elaboration of problems and the execution of solutions to meet these problems. The concepts, assumptions, and basic and derived propositions are presented in sequential fashion. This will be followed by some brief discussion of the conceptual logic of the model.Item Organizational Intelligence: Its Conceptual And Empirical Utility(Disaster Research Center, 1973) Kreps, Gary A.; Dynes, Russell R.Wilensky recently introduced the concept of organizational intelligence. Through conceptually insightful, it has been in need of empirical documentation. This paper documents the intelligence concept via studies of organizational change in 29 community organizations ( police and fire departments). Intelligence boundary personnel are identified and their influence in the development of planned organizational change shown. Finally, several organizational structural and environmental variables are introduced to further elaborate the concept via multiple regression analysis. These variables include organization size, wealth, complexity, centralization, professionalization, comparative reference, and enviromental threat.Item A Perspective On Disaster Planning 3rd Edition(Disaster Research Center, 1981-05) Dynes, Russell R.; Quarantelli, E. L.; Kreps, Gary A.