A ética profissional afeta qualquer organização em todas as suas vertentes, na medida que garante a qualidade dos serviços prestados e é um pilar fundamental no processo de tomada de decisão de qualquer colaborador. O objetivo desta revisão integrativa foi identificar as vantagens da implementação de um código de ética numa organização. Realizou-se uma revisão integrativa da literatura (RIL) usando as bases de ...
A ética é essencial nas organizações e estas operacionalizam a sua introdução através da adoção de códigos que orientam o agir dos seus colaboradores. A adoção de um comportamento ético torna-se assim um pilar fundamental, em particular para os bombeiros. É objetivo desta revisão identificar o impacto da ética na cultura organizacional dos bombeiros. Para o efeito realizou-se uma revisão sistemática pelo método...
The article introduces the VR framework and the preliminary outcomes of the ongoing European TRACENET project, an interdisciplinary and collaborative initiative to support and enhance Civil Protection training activities through 3D geospatial data and VR solutions. The VR framework is a virtual and collaborative multi-player environment for manifold and diverse hazard simulations which allows remote users to se...
Background: Firefighters face stressful life-threatening events requiring fast decision-making. To better prepare for those situations, training is paramount, but errors in real-life training can be harmful. Virtual reality (VR) simulations provide the desired realism while enabling practice in a secure and controlled environment. Firefighters’ affective states are also crucial as they are a higher-risk group. ...
Numerous studies in management and leadership indicate that one’s decision-making style is reflective of one’s leadership style. In the context of civil protection and the fire service, the ability of the fire officers to adopt the best style of decision-making and leadership in each situation represents a critical factor of success. Therefore, the present study was designed to examine the relationship between ...
Leaders are crucial to ensuring the well-being of their subordinates. This study aims to understand the effects of two leadership styles (empowering vs. directive) on subordinates’ well-being in an emergency situation (i.e., rural fire). A simulation study was conducted with two experimental conditions (empowering vs. directive leadership), and the subordinates’ stress levels were measured before and after the ...
A publicação deste e-book surge como um dos resultados do projeto de investigação Processo de liderança e saúde ocupacional dos bombeiros: Desenvolvimento de um programa de intervenção, financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, o qual integrou a Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa (instituição proponente), a Escola Nacional de Bombeiros (instituição participante) e o Instituto Nacional...
Leaders are crucial to ensuring the well-being of their subordinates. This study aims to understand the effects of two leadership styles (empowering vs. directive) on subordinates’ well-being in an emergency situation (i.e., rural fire). A simulation study was conducted with two experimental conditions (empowering vs. directive leadership), and the subordinates’ stress levels were measured before and after the ...
In this study, we analysed the effects of team leadership style on the well-being of firefighter teams operating under conditions of a simulated rural fire. Twenty teams of firefighters (composed of five elements each) took part in a computer‐based fire‐fighting simulation task and were randomly assigned to one of two conditions (leadership style: directive vs. empowering). Our results showed that directive lea...
This study focuses on the use of virtual reality simulations for the training of portuguese firefighters in emergency operations management and the assessment of decision-making competence. The research was carried out through the action-research method. In the first cycle a pilot training course was carried out in a group of eight trainers from the Portuguese National Fire Service School, in which data were co...