Cumbria council workers ‘were well prepared for floods’

A test run of staff emergency plans at Cumbria County Council only a few weeks ago primed employees for action against the past week’s severe floods, PM has learnt.

Council staff were also better prepared for the floods in the county this time, after previous flooding in Morpeth in 2008 and Carlisle in 2005.
 

Language does not simply reflect what is going on in organisational life: it also influences what people think and what they do

Linda Holbeche, director of the Holbeche Partnership and visiting professor of HRM/OD at Cass Business School