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Fukushima Disaster: Learning Quality from People in Crisis Author: Khandoker Mahmudur Rahman Assistant Professor School of Business & Economics

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Fukushima Disaster:. Learning Quality from People in Crisis. Author: Khandoker Mahmudur Rahman Assistant Professor School of Business & Economics United International University (UIU). Friday, March 11, 2011. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Fukushima Disaster:

Learning Quality from People in Crisis

Author: Khandoker Mahmudur RahmanAssistant ProfessorSchool of Business & EconomicsUnited International University (UIU)

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Friday, March 11, 2011

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Earthquake resulted in Plant Explosion, and leak of nuclear materials (not an atomic explosion)

khandoker@uiu

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In the following presentation, we will not talk about the accident, but we will present how people showed their way of handling the crisis

Let us learn and teach our children the kind of people we want them to

be!

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1. Discipline

People are lining up in a school for drinking waterkhandoker@uiu

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People are not breaking lines when collecting foods from shelterkhandoker@uiu

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People are lining up for radiation checkkhandoker@uiu

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People lining up for radiation checkkhandoker@uiu

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Lesson 1

• Can we teach our children to maintain line, and respect others while standing in the queue

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2. Compassion

Children were checked for radiation on a priority basiskhandoker@uiu

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Thyroid radiation was found in 45% of Japanese children living around the area

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Rescue workers are praying for the victimskhandoker@uiu

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Even a dog was tested for radiation exposure

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Lesson 2

• Can we teach our children to be compassionate and love everybody around us? Feeling the same pain as the victim already has?

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3. Responsibility

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Prime Minister Naoto Kan apologized for the disaster

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Everybody is doing their own part of the job!khandoker@uiu

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In this picture, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) executives apologizing to people in shelter, for TEPCO’s failure in preventing the disaster

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Lesson 3

• Can we teach our children to take responsibility for their actions?

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Summary

• Human qualities are crucial in facing crisis situation and delivery of quality services

• Discipline should be of utmost importance to face crisis situation.

• Compassion for others is essential to handle disasters.

• Taking responsibility for people around us would make everybody’s life easier.

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Let us teach our generations

to become good citizens,

besides being good students!

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Thank you

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