Homeland Security Assessment: Unit#5 Understanding the scores of organizational assessments

Write a narrative essay addressing and discussing the following question and statement:

• The nation’s system of emergency management relies predominantly on the efforts of unpaid volunteer first responders.  Is this type of system sustainable?  Why or why not?
• What could be done to improve it, and at what cost?  Is it possible to improve it?  Why or why not?  Expound upon your ideas.
• When examining the assessment, explain how you transferred all of the individual assessment scores from the category worksheets into the Summary of Assessment Items for Homeland Security Form.
• (From

  Fisher, D. C. (2004) Homeland security assessment
  manual: A comprehensive organizational assessment
  based on Baldrige criteria. Milwaukee, WI: ASQ Quality
  Press): Discuss how the scores from the Summary of Scores (pages 158–159) are transferred to the “Hierarchy of Homeland Security Assessment Needs” form (page 160) and explain why this is necessary.