Getting the best bang for your buck: Ad hoc or pre-formed incident management teams?

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TitleGetting the best bang for your buck: Ad hoc or pre-formed incident management teams?
Publication TypeConference Proceedings
Year of Conference2012
AuthorsHayes, P, Omodei, M
Conference NameIAWF 3rd Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, Seattle, WA, 17-19 April 2012
Pagination67=68
AbstractAn ongoing challenge for agencies managing wildfires is ensuring the effectiveness of their incident management teams (IMTs). In recent years there has been growing interest in the benefits of using pre-formed IMTs, leading to a number of agencies adopting their use. An important feature of pre-formed teams is their high levels of intra-team familiarity. The implementation of pre-formed IMTs has, in part, been based on the expectation that greater familiarity and member knowledge enables superior team performance. ...
URLhttp://www.iawfonline.org/pdf/3rd%20Human%20Dimensions%20Conference%20Proceedings%20-%20FINAL.pdf
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