Department
Emergency Management & Public Administration
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2020
Abstract
This study examined the strategic planning practices of county-level emergency management agencies (EMAs), with a specific focus on strategic planning adoption and its relationship to local program quality. The study utilized a descriptive, cross-sectional survey design to collect planning- and programrelated data from more than 300 county-level EMAs across the United States. The study findings revealed that most of the county EMAs included in the final sample had previously engaged in strategic planning activities, with nearly all of them continuing to use strategic planning as part of their general management practice. The study findings further revealed that strategic planning had a direct and significant impact on the overall quality of local emergency management programs, and that the strategic planning EMAs had significantly higher mean quality scores across all program dimensions when compared to the non-strategic planning EMAs.
Recommended Citation
Manning, Scott Robert, "Strategic Planning in Emergency Management: Evaluating the Impacts on Local Program Quality" (2020). Research, Publications & Creative Work. 92.
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Publication/Presentation Information
Manning, S.R. (2020) "Strategic Planning in Emergency Management: Evaluating the Impacts on Local Program Quality." Journal of Homeland Security Emergency Management. 17(3): 20190051. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsem-2019-0051