Fire Note 41 - Enhancing emergency incident management, team effectiveness and organisational behaviour.
Overview
This Fire Note reports on the preliminary findings of a PhD study which is investigatingteamwork effectiveness in Incident Management Teams (IMT) that are undertaking simulation training. Data was collected from across four states in Australia from 13 Incident Management Teams. Pre and post training questionnaires were distributed to 240 Incident Management Team personnel. Included in the questionnaire were two questions that related specifically to teamwork effectiveness. Based on the teamwork effectiveness post scores, the IMTs were divided into two groups. The training sessions where the post scores increased became Group A. The training sessions where the post scores decreased became Group B. Results showed that Group A with perceived higher teamwork effectiveness communicated more effectively than Group B. These results have implications for IMT training.
