Document Type
Dissertation
Major/Program
Management Information Systems
First Advisor's Name
Irma Becerra-Fernandez
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Weidong Xia
Third Advisor's Name
Mary Ann Von Glinow
Fourth Advisor's Name
Steve Zanakis
Keywords
Knowledge Management, Knowledge Sharing, Disaster Management, Exploration, Exploitation, Task Performance
Date of Defense
4-29-2011
Abstract
Each disaster presents itself with a unique set of characteristics that are hard to determine a priori. Thus disaster management tasks are inherently uncertain, requiring knowledge sharing and quick decision making that involves coordination across different levels and collaborators. While there has been an increasing interest among both researchers and practitioners in utilizing knowledge management to improve disaster management, little research has been reported about how to assess the dynamic nature of disaster management tasks, and what kinds of knowledge sharing are appropriate for different dimensions of task uncertainty characteristics.
Using combinations of qualitative and quantitative methods, this research study developed the dimensions and their corresponding measures of the uncertain dynamic characteristics of disaster management tasks and tested the relationships between the various dimensions of uncertain dynamic disaster management tasks and task performance through the moderating and mediating effects of knowledge sharing.
Furthermore, this research work conceptualized and assessed task uncertainty along three dimensions: novelty, unanalyzability, and significance; knowledge sharing along two dimensions: knowledge sharing purposes and knowledge sharing mechanisms; and task performance along two dimensions: task effectiveness and task efficiency. Analysis results of survey data collected from Miami-Dade County emergency managers suggested that knowledge sharing purposes and knowledge sharing mechanisms moderate and mediate uncertain dynamic disaster management task and task performance. Implications for research and practice as well directions for future research are discussed.
Identifier
FI11081002
Recommended Citation
Rocha, Jose, "A Study on Uncertain Dynamic Disaster Management Tasks, Knowledge Sharing, and Task Performance" (2011). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 468.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/468
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