on the task to be executed, i.e. a weighing between the need
for assistance and the organisation.- The need to shape and adapt the organisational system based
on the time scales that decision makers are working with. - The need to find methods for developing common understan-
ding between various decision makers of tasks and task de-
mands. - The need to shape and adapt communications based on the
tasks that are to be executed.
By distributing areas of responsibility and thus decision making
rights in different matters, the ability increases in the manage-
ment system to deal with the entire range of issues that must be
handled within the system.
Significant issues for distributed decision making include con-
flicts between different levels in a hierarchical system, where lo-
wer levels need more current but less general information about
the situation, while higher levels can often get by with less cur-
rent but more general information about the situation. The orga-
nisational system must be shaped and adapted based on the task
to be executed, the existing need for assistance and on a frombe-
neath perspective. Due to practical considerations, one normally
needs to structure the organisational system in advance. In doing
so, one needs to examine a type of comprehensive risk profile for
the relevant municipality. In other countries, but also in Sweden,
there are examples of how one can dimension rescue service ba-
sed on the risks that exist for a particular municipality. These are,
however, usually very general and should be used with a certain
amount of caution. Primarily, one must avoid viewing a problem
from just one perspective, for example, from only a financial or
logical perspective. Dimensioning of municipal rescue service is
more complex than this.
Stress
Stress is often experienced as a negative state, created in the rela-
tionship between an individual and his or her surroundings. Most
people feel some form of anxiety or uneasiness in new, unfamiliar
situations or due to direct threats, either against themselves or
their surroundings. In the same manner, one can become uneasy
when one perceives that there is too little time for the tasks at
hand.