Rensselaer researchers developing model to predict organizational response to extreme events; FEMA, Coast Guard responses to Hurricane Katrina help researchers simulate how organizational characteristics improve or impede emergency management.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-3 November 2006-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Rensselaer researchers developing model to predict organizational response to extreme events; FEMA, Coast Guard responses to Hurricane Katrina help researchers simulate how organizational characteristics improve or impede emergency management(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03112006 Troy, N.Y.

- By studying the organizational culture of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the United States Coast Guard, as well as each organization's response to last year's Hurricane Katrina, a team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has begun to develop a dynamic model of organizational processes with the capacity to predict how an organization's culture will affect its...