[1E07-10] Social Situation

[1E10] A study on the factors that contribute to the practice of organizational behavior as coping with unexpected events

Exploration of the factors through the case survey of the Great East Japan Earthquake

*Kenichi Hayase¹ (1. Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)

Keywords:Unexpected Events , Great East Japan Earthquake , Organizational Behavior

In the organizations in the face of unexpected events in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the organizational behavior which was coped with by their members was seen. It is important to prepare emergency that the backgrounds of those organizational behavior were understood. This study aimed to explore the factors that contribute to the practice of organizational behavior as coping with unexpected events through the case survey of the Great East Japan Earthquake. This study carried out literature survey and interview survey of personnel in charge of disaster prevention, BCP in the 10 organizations which coped with the earthquake. As the result, the following two outcomes were obtained. 1) Factors that contribute to the practice of the 13 kinds of the organizational behavior were clarified. 2) Discussion from the view point of the factors classification indicated the importance of the factors which are classified into normal business and features of organization.