Consumer Behavior and Worker Participation in Recovery Activities
Abstract
The study is concerned with the problem of securing the participation of the survivors of a nuclear attack in an organized recovery effort. It describes the potential effects on motivation and organization of the different localized perspectives in which individual survivors would view disaster and respond to demands for nationally oriented work activity. The study assumes that recovery would require the integration of recovery activities on a national basis, that forcing functions of time would be placed on the performance of critical recovery activities, that survivors would perceive a scarcity of consumer items (especially food), and that the natural proclivities and motivations of survivors would lead them to engage in activities other than those required by an integrated national effort. Given those assumptions, the report describes a set of system characteristics that would, if built into a distribution system for consumer goods, allow the system to perform two tasks: (1) meet consumer needs and (2) provide the means for guiding the postattack behavior of survivors toward the performance of critical recovery activities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0651098
Entities
People
- Peter G. Nordlie
- William W. Chenault