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Response to Hurricane Katrina

Running Head : Response to Hurricane Katrina

Response to Hurricane Katrina

[Name of Writer]

[Name of Institution]

Response to Hurricane Katrina

Introduction

On 29 August , 2005 the category 5 huge Hurricane , Hurricane Katrina hit USA land . This natural disaster brought massive flood , damaging the property and resulted into high death toll . Although the projects related to the protection of areas by Hurricane were constructed 60 years ago but this exceptional unexpected disaster was the most terrible one in USA history (GAO-06-934 , 2006 . The disaster of Hurricane Katrina was beyond

the expectation of the officials of the emergency management which resulted into delay in supporting the effected people and the area by the guards and military . This uncontrolled situation showed the absence of management and lack of the ability to take a quick action by the people responsible to handle the problem because of their unawareness of handling the situation (Cooper Block , 2005

Bureaucratic / Hierarchical model vs . Network model

Professor Charles Wise asserts that effective and efficient running of organizations can be achieved through a combination of strategies and techniques . He further states that the organization must utilize all its resources in to achieve business goals (Wise , 2006 . Wise laid importance for the implication of network model rather than the hierarchical model . He explains that in hierarchical model , the decisions take place at the top level without communicating all the levels of organization and there is no evaluation of the progress . Due to this , flaws and unfavorable situations results at the...

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