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Fred C. Cuny Memorial Continuing Education Series: Principles of Disaster Management Lesson 6: Personnel and Personnel Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Fred C. Cuny
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Abstract

Relief operations require capable resposible staff. This lesson discusses the types of staff and workers required. It stress the importance of employing locals an refugees infilling many of these positions and examines the role of volunteers, paid personnel, and expatriates and the issues involved.

Keywords

administrative staffdisasterexpatriatesfield workersmanagementpersonnelrefugeesreliefsalariesstaffvolunteers
Type
Fred C. Cuny Memorial Continuing Education Series
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 1999 , pp. 66 - 70
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1999

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Notes

1. This chapter is based on “Personnel,” Chapter 2 of Vol. I: Administration and Resource Management, Relief Operations Guidebook, INTERTECT, Dallas, Texas, 1974.Google Scholar
2. Cuny, FC: Disasters and Development, Oxford University Press, 1983, pp 135–136.Google Scholar