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Papers by Ron Perry

Disaster Prevention and Management, 2003

In the USA, terrorist threats captured government attention following 11 September 2001. Cities r... more In the USA, terrorist threats captured government attention following 11 September 2001. Cities remain the most likely setting for terrorist incidents. Many cities, building on a successful federal program begun in 1997, have developed metropolitan medical response systems (MMRS) to address the consequences of terrorist incidents. The basic system design has been tested both through drills and incidents ± including the attacks on the World Trade Center ± and appears to function well. This paper describes the philosophy and elements of the MMRS model. The model has considerable value as a readily exportable strategy for responding to municipal terrorist incidents.

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

This r epor t w as prepared by Battelle as an account of sponsored re s ear c h act ivit ies. Nei... more This r epor t w as prepared by Battelle as an account of sponsored re s ear c h act ivit ies. Neither Sponsor nor Battelle nor any person a ctin g o n beha lf of either: (a) Makes any warranty or representation, ex press or im p lie d, with respect to the accu r acy, completeness, or us ef u lness of th e information contained in this report or that the u se o f an y inf ormation, apparatus, process, or composition disc lo sed in t h is r e p o r t ma y not infring e privately owned rights; or (b) Assumes an y liabili t ies with r espect to the use of, or for damages resulting from t h e use of , any information, apparatus, process, or composition disclo sed in t h is report. contributions from solar, wind and hydroelectric technologies. They also believe that there are serious disadvantages to conservation. Nuclear opponents, on the other hand, disagree that there are such limited prospects for solar and wind, although they are neutral on the prospects for increased hydro capacity. They also do not believe that conservation necessarily poses serious adverse consequences either for themselves or others.

Choice Reviews Online

Page 1. Communicating Environmental in Multiethnic Communities Michael K. Linden Ronald W. Perry ... more Page 1. Communicating Environmental in Multiethnic Communities Michael K. Linden Ronald W. Perry Page 2. Page 3. Communicating Environmental in Multiethnic Communities This One LXGY-85X-5DE5 Page 4. Communicating ...

Public Personnel Management

This article examines the interrelationships among employee trust in the chief executive of the o... more This article examines the interrelationships among employee trust in the chief executive of the organization, trust in the organization and work satisfaction. These three concepts capture the essential experience of the employee's work life, but their interrelationships have been more often a subject for speculation than for research. Employees in one government organization and one manufacturing firm offered their visions of critical features in managerial trust and organizational trust. With respect to defining chief executive trust, employees emphasized the manager's employee orientation, honesty, ability, fairness and forthrightness. Critical features that employees used to define organizational trust included the social significance of organizational mission, quality of output, and the organization's persistence beyond the human lifespan. Trust in the chief executive and organizational trust were found to be uncorrelated with one another, as expected from the concep...

Public Personnel Management

Particularly since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, there h... more Particularly since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, there has been renewed interest in emergency planning in both the private and public sectors. Government emergency planning tends to be conducted by specialized agencies and offices, such as fire departments, police departments or emergency management. Traditionally, most of this planning is oriented toward protecting the public and public structures. Selectively over the decades, some of this planning was oriented toward insuring that government could continue to function following a disaster. At the federal level during the Cold War, much attention was given to the problem of post-nuclear attack government functioning under the rubric of “government continuity.” In the past decade, private sector businesses have begun to plan for business continuity following a variety of disasters including terrorist attacks. In spite of sporadic research indicating that local governments are particularly vu...

Public Personnel Management

Employee trust is an integral part of the organizational behavior lexicon, but professional use s... more Employee trust is an integral part of the organizational behavior lexicon, but professional use seems to employ different referents for the trust invested. The goal here is to focus on a specific referent for trust — managers — and examine the extent to which trust varies among different levels of management. The data analyzed come from a larger study of two organizations, a large municipal fire department and a private manufacturing company. Three classes of variables are tested as a model of antecedent correlates of managerial trust: characteristics of the trustee (gender, ethnicity, years worked under the manager), characteristics of the organization (layoffs, managerial turnover), and characteristics of the manager (technical expertise and credibility). Although there were differences by manager (supervisor vs. CEO) and between the organizations, regression analyses indicate that overall the model fits the data well.

State and Local Government Review, 1998

... 30, No. 1 (Winter 1998): 17-25 Municipal Personnel Director Evaluations of HMO, PPO, and Inde... more ... 30, No. 1 (Winter 1998): 17-25 Municipal Personnel Director Evaluations of HMO, PPO, and Indemnity Health Plans N. Joseph Cayer and Ronald W. Perry The ... trative burdens, costs, employee reactions, and services provided (Scarpello, Huber, and Vandenberg 1988). ...

Legal Notice This report was prepared by Battelle as an account of sponsored research activities.... more Legal Notice This report was prepared by Battelle as an account of sponsored research activities. Neither Sponsor nor Battelle nor any person acting on behalf of either: (a) Makes any warranty or representation, express or implied, with respect to the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of the information contained in this report or that the use of any information, apparatus, process, or composition disclosed in this report may not infringe privately owned rights; or (b) Assumes any liabilities with respect to the use of, or for damages resulting from the use of, any information, apparatus, process, or composition disclosed in this report.

Public Personnel Management, 1999

... Increase -4--5-No Cafeteria Plan 1313 660 (78.3%) (82.0%) Cafeteria Plan 363 145 (21.7%) (18.... more ... Increase -4--5-No Cafeteria Plan 1313 660 (78.3%) (82.0%) Cafeteria Plan 363 145 (21.7%) (18.0%) Table 8 Perceptions of Administrative Difficulty in Using Cafeteria Plans Number of ... All service marks and trademarks are property of Cengage Learning and its affiliates. ...

Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis, 2012

The Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) is a multistage model that is based on findings from ... more The Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) is a multistage model that is based on findings from research on people's responses to environmental hazards and disasters. The PADM integrates the processing of information derived from social and environmental cues with messages that social sources transmit through communication channels to those at risk. The PADM identifies three critical predecision processes (reception, attention, and comprehension of warnings or exposure, attention, and interpretation of environmental/social cues)--that precede all further processing. The revised model identifies three core perceptions--threat perceptions, protective action perceptions, and stakeholder perceptions--that form the basis for decisions about how to respond to an imminent or long-term threat. The outcome of the protective action decision-making process, together with situational facilitators and impediments, produces a behavioral response. In addition to describing the revised model a...

21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook, 2008

As terrorists attacks increase in frequency, hospital disaster plans need to be scrutinized to en... more As terrorists attacks increase in frequency, hospital disaster plans need to be scrutinized to ensure that they take into account issues unique to weapons of mass destruction. This paper reports a review of the literature addressing hospital experiences with such incidents and the planning lessons thus learned. Construction of hospital disaster plans is examined as an ongoing process guided by the disaster planning committee. Hospitals are conceived as one of the components of a larger community disaster planning efforts, with specific attention devoted to defining important linkages among response organizations. This includes the public health authorities, political authorities, prehospital care agencies, and emergency management agencies. A review is completed of six special elements of weapons of mass destruction incidents that should be addressed in hospital disaster plans: incident command, hospital security, patient surge, decontamination, mental health consequences, and communications. The paper closes with a discussion of the importance of training and exercises in maintaining and improving the disaster plan.

Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1971

Examined response repetition as a function of feedback type. 16 male and 16 female undergraduates... more Examined response repetition as a function of feedback type. 16 male and 16 female undergraduates were presented with a paired-associate learning task. Informationless feedback consisted of either the standard blank or a redundant reminder of the 2 response alternatives, with Ss informed in both cases that such feedback conveyed no information. Both types of feedback resulted in an equally strong tendency for S to repeat responses which they followed, with the probability of repetition only slightly less than that obtained for "right." "Wrong" resulted in marked response suppression. Findings on informationless feedback support A. M. Buchwald's view that blank feedback is functionally equivalent to "right" or "wrong" feedback which is forgotten.

Disaster Prevention and Management, 2003

In the USA, terrorist threats captured government attention following 11 September 2001. Cities r... more In the USA, terrorist threats captured government attention following 11 September 2001. Cities remain the most likely setting for terrorist incidents. Many cities, building on a successful federal program begun in 1997, have developed metropolitan medical response systems (MMRS) to address the consequences of terrorist incidents. The basic system design has been tested both through drills and incidents ± including the attacks on the World Trade Center ± and appears to function well. This paper describes the philosophy and elements of the MMRS model. The model has considerable value as a readily exportable strategy for responding to municipal terrorist incidents.

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

This r epor t w as prepared by Battelle as an account of sponsored re s ear c h act ivit ies. Nei... more This r epor t w as prepared by Battelle as an account of sponsored re s ear c h act ivit ies. Neither Sponsor nor Battelle nor any person a ctin g o n beha lf of either: (a) Makes any warranty or representation, ex press or im p lie d, with respect to the accu r acy, completeness, or us ef u lness of th e information contained in this report or that the u se o f an y inf ormation, apparatus, process, or composition disc lo sed in t h is r e p o r t ma y not infring e privately owned rights; or (b) Assumes an y liabili t ies with r espect to the use of, or for damages resulting from t h e use of , any information, apparatus, process, or composition disclo sed in t h is report. contributions from solar, wind and hydroelectric technologies. They also believe that there are serious disadvantages to conservation. Nuclear opponents, on the other hand, disagree that there are such limited prospects for solar and wind, although they are neutral on the prospects for increased hydro capacity. They also do not believe that conservation necessarily poses serious adverse consequences either for themselves or others.

Choice Reviews Online

Page 1. Communicating Environmental in Multiethnic Communities Michael K. Linden Ronald W. Perry ... more Page 1. Communicating Environmental in Multiethnic Communities Michael K. Linden Ronald W. Perry Page 2. Page 3. Communicating Environmental in Multiethnic Communities This One LXGY-85X-5DE5 Page 4. Communicating ...

Public Personnel Management

This article examines the interrelationships among employee trust in the chief executive of the o... more This article examines the interrelationships among employee trust in the chief executive of the organization, trust in the organization and work satisfaction. These three concepts capture the essential experience of the employee's work life, but their interrelationships have been more often a subject for speculation than for research. Employees in one government organization and one manufacturing firm offered their visions of critical features in managerial trust and organizational trust. With respect to defining chief executive trust, employees emphasized the manager's employee orientation, honesty, ability, fairness and forthrightness. Critical features that employees used to define organizational trust included the social significance of organizational mission, quality of output, and the organization's persistence beyond the human lifespan. Trust in the chief executive and organizational trust were found to be uncorrelated with one another, as expected from the concep...

Public Personnel Management

Particularly since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, there h... more Particularly since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, there has been renewed interest in emergency planning in both the private and public sectors. Government emergency planning tends to be conducted by specialized agencies and offices, such as fire departments, police departments or emergency management. Traditionally, most of this planning is oriented toward protecting the public and public structures. Selectively over the decades, some of this planning was oriented toward insuring that government could continue to function following a disaster. At the federal level during the Cold War, much attention was given to the problem of post-nuclear attack government functioning under the rubric of “government continuity.” In the past decade, private sector businesses have begun to plan for business continuity following a variety of disasters including terrorist attacks. In spite of sporadic research indicating that local governments are particularly vu...

Public Personnel Management

Employee trust is an integral part of the organizational behavior lexicon, but professional use s... more Employee trust is an integral part of the organizational behavior lexicon, but professional use seems to employ different referents for the trust invested. The goal here is to focus on a specific referent for trust — managers — and examine the extent to which trust varies among different levels of management. The data analyzed come from a larger study of two organizations, a large municipal fire department and a private manufacturing company. Three classes of variables are tested as a model of antecedent correlates of managerial trust: characteristics of the trustee (gender, ethnicity, years worked under the manager), characteristics of the organization (layoffs, managerial turnover), and characteristics of the manager (technical expertise and credibility). Although there were differences by manager (supervisor vs. CEO) and between the organizations, regression analyses indicate that overall the model fits the data well.

State and Local Government Review, 1998

... 30, No. 1 (Winter 1998): 17-25 Municipal Personnel Director Evaluations of HMO, PPO, and Inde... more ... 30, No. 1 (Winter 1998): 17-25 Municipal Personnel Director Evaluations of HMO, PPO, and Indemnity Health Plans N. Joseph Cayer and Ronald W. Perry The ... trative burdens, costs, employee reactions, and services provided (Scarpello, Huber, and Vandenberg 1988). ...

Legal Notice This report was prepared by Battelle as an account of sponsored research activities.... more Legal Notice This report was prepared by Battelle as an account of sponsored research activities. Neither Sponsor nor Battelle nor any person acting on behalf of either: (a) Makes any warranty or representation, express or implied, with respect to the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of the information contained in this report or that the use of any information, apparatus, process, or composition disclosed in this report may not infringe privately owned rights; or (b) Assumes any liabilities with respect to the use of, or for damages resulting from the use of, any information, apparatus, process, or composition disclosed in this report.

Public Personnel Management, 1999

... Increase -4--5-No Cafeteria Plan 1313 660 (78.3%) (82.0%) Cafeteria Plan 363 145 (21.7%) (18.... more ... Increase -4--5-No Cafeteria Plan 1313 660 (78.3%) (82.0%) Cafeteria Plan 363 145 (21.7%) (18.0%) Table 8 Perceptions of Administrative Difficulty in Using Cafeteria Plans Number of ... All service marks and trademarks are property of Cengage Learning and its affiliates. ...

Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis, 2012

The Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) is a multistage model that is based on findings from ... more The Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) is a multistage model that is based on findings from research on people's responses to environmental hazards and disasters. The PADM integrates the processing of information derived from social and environmental cues with messages that social sources transmit through communication channels to those at risk. The PADM identifies three critical predecision processes (reception, attention, and comprehension of warnings or exposure, attention, and interpretation of environmental/social cues)--that precede all further processing. The revised model identifies three core perceptions--threat perceptions, protective action perceptions, and stakeholder perceptions--that form the basis for decisions about how to respond to an imminent or long-term threat. The outcome of the protective action decision-making process, together with situational facilitators and impediments, produces a behavioral response. In addition to describing the revised model a...

21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook, 2008

As terrorists attacks increase in frequency, hospital disaster plans need to be scrutinized to en... more As terrorists attacks increase in frequency, hospital disaster plans need to be scrutinized to ensure that they take into account issues unique to weapons of mass destruction. This paper reports a review of the literature addressing hospital experiences with such incidents and the planning lessons thus learned. Construction of hospital disaster plans is examined as an ongoing process guided by the disaster planning committee. Hospitals are conceived as one of the components of a larger community disaster planning efforts, with specific attention devoted to defining important linkages among response organizations. This includes the public health authorities, political authorities, prehospital care agencies, and emergency management agencies. A review is completed of six special elements of weapons of mass destruction incidents that should be addressed in hospital disaster plans: incident command, hospital security, patient surge, decontamination, mental health consequences, and communications. The paper closes with a discussion of the importance of training and exercises in maintaining and improving the disaster plan.

Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1971

Examined response repetition as a function of feedback type. 16 male and 16 female undergraduates... more Examined response repetition as a function of feedback type. 16 male and 16 female undergraduates were presented with a paired-associate learning task. Informationless feedback consisted of either the standard blank or a redundant reminder of the 2 response alternatives, with Ss informed in both cases that such feedback conveyed no information. Both types of feedback resulted in an equally strong tendency for S to repeat responses which they followed, with the probability of repetition only slightly less than that obtained for "right." "Wrong" resulted in marked response suppression. Findings on informationless feedback support A. M. Buchwald's view that blank feedback is functionally equivalent to "right" or "wrong" feedback which is forgotten.