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Grasping the Moment

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Grasping the Moment

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Sensemaking in Response to Routine Incidents and Major Emergencies

Grasping the Moment

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Grasping the Moment book

Sensemaking in Response to Routine Incidents and Major Emergencies
ByChristopher Baber, Richard McMaster
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 19 August 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint CRC Press
DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315585796
Pages 285
eBook ISBN 9781315585796
Subjects Engineering & Technology, Politics & International Relations
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Baber, C., & McMaster, R. (2016). Grasping the Moment: Sensemaking in Response to Routine Incidents and Major Emergencies (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315585796

ABSTRACT

The ways in which organizations make use of information available to them to make decisions and manage activity is an essential topic of investigation for human factors. When the information is uncertain, incomplete or subject to change, then decision making and activity management can become challenging. Under such circumstances, it has become commonplace to use the concept of sensemaking as the lens through which to view organizational behavior. This book offers a unique perspective on sensemaking through its consideration of the variety of ways in which Incident Response is managed by the Police. As an incident moves from the initial call handling to subsequent mobilization of response to first officer attending, a wide range of information is acquired, processed and shared, and the organization (and individuals who work within it) face challenges of making sense of the situation to which they are responding. Moving from routine incidents to large-scale emergencies, the authors explore how sensemaking is influenced and affected by the challenges of interoperability within and between organizations. In addition, the book develops a view of sensemaking which draws on the theory of distributed cognition, focusing in particular on the question of how the technology that is available to Police personnel can support (and sometimes thwart) their ability to make sense of the unfolding situation. The main argument in this book is that sensemaking is distributed cognition, and that cognitive processes involved in sensemaking are mediated through interactions with artifacts and other agents. Three perspectives of sensemaking as distributed cognition are presented: making sense with artifacts, making sense through artifacts, and making sense through collaboration.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|20 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|18 pages

Individual Sensemaking

chapter 3|18 pages

Sensemaking with Artefacts

chapter 4|16 pages

Collaborative Sensemaking

chapter 5|16 pages

Command and Control in the UK Emergency Services

chapter 6|12 pages

Sensemaking in Command and Control

chapter 7|20 pages

Managing Routine Incidents

chapter 8|16 pages

Distributed Cognition in Routine Incidents

chapter 9|14 pages

Responding to Major Incidents

chapter 10|16 pages

Distributed Cognition in Major Incidents

chapter 11|14 pages

The Challenges of Interoperability

chapter 12|12 pages

Sensemaking and Organisational Structure in Emergency Response

chapter 13|18 pages

Common Operating Pictures

chapter 14|16 pages

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