Decision Making Method in Emergency

Abstract

In case of emergency we can face a special situation without any warning sign and we can meet the requirements for improvisation making our decision. Improvisation can be at any level of the management (strategic, operational and tactical) but at tactical level the time pressure is certainly the biggest problem. Fire managers have a typical profession, during which making recognition-primed decisions as a symbol of naturalistic decision-making is regularly required. Method: Different tools and methods were used to achieve goals; one of them was the study of the relevant literature, the other one was author’s own experience as a firefighting manager. Other results come from two surveys: one of them was an essay analysis, the second one was a word association test; both of theme were specially created for this research by the author. Results: the author created a simple and a complex model for firefighting managers making decisions, taking into account the time pressure, the limited capability of processing information and also a mechanism complementing the recognition-primed decision.