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The 2010 and 2011 canterbury earthquakes and organisational learning at the university of canterbury
1. The 2010 and 2011 Canterbury Earthquakes and
organisational learning at the University of
Canterbury: does practice make perfect?
Professor Nigel Healey, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Nottingham
Trent University / Adjunct Professor, University of Canterbury
2. Health warning (1)
• The limitations of critical self-reflection as a research
methodology
• The illusion of objectivity in ethnographic studies:
– „candid ethnographer‟
– „chaste ethnographer‟
– „fair ethnographer‟
– „literary ethnographer‟
• Nonetheless…
…this approach provides rich insights into understanding the
management of a natural disaster which could not be achieved by
an alternative, more remote methodology
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3. Health warning (2)
• Aim is not to assess whether management could have done
„better‟ with 20:20 hindsight
– the management team worked tirelessly and professionally, using
their best judgement in a difficult situation
– it is always be possible to choose better strategies ex-post, based
on full information, than ex-ante, based on partial information
• Aim is to examine, using the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury
earthquakes as a case study, whether the successful
management of a prior, lesser crisis better prepares
managers to deal with a subsequent, greater crisis
• Interesting question: because the answer seems so intuitively
obvious
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4. Overview
• University of Canterbury
• The 2010 and 2011 earthquakes
• Managing after the major earthquakes
– September 4, 2010
– February 22, 2011
• The changed environment post February 22
• The impact of the changed environment
• Unintended consequences
• Conclusions
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5. The University of Canterbury pre-September 4,
2010
• Medium-sized, public comprehensive university
• 15,362 enrolments (EFTS) in 2010, of which:
– 13,960 domestic students
– 1,402 international students (9.2% of the total)
• Based in western suburbs of Christchurch
• Christchurch is a city of 325,000 people
– Major international tourist gateway
– Major international student destination: two universities, one
polytechnic and number of prestigious high schools which attract
international students
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6. The 2010 and 2011 earthquakes
• Pacific Plate moves 37-47mm
pa against the Australian Plate
• 37-47mm per year = 3.7-4.7m
per century
• Many of the fault systems from
Alpine Fault are not fully
mapped
• “Most probable date of next big
shock is tomorrow”
• Strict building codes since 1931
Hawke‟s Bay earthquake
(M7.8)
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7. The September 4, 2010 earthquake
• M7.1 at 4:35am on Saturday, September 4, 2010
• Epicentre 40km west of Christchurch, near the town of
Darfield
• 2 injuries, no directly-attributable deaths
• Earthquake occurred during mid-semester break
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9. The February 22, 2011 earthquake
• M6.3 at 12:51pm on Tuesday, 22 February 2011
• Epicentre 10km south-east of Christchurch
• 181 fatalities, from 20 countries; approximately 2,000
injured
• Fatalities included many Japanese, Chinese and other
international students studying English in a collapsed building
in the city
• Second day of academic year
• Height of tourist season
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11. The February 22, 2011 earthquake
Liquefaction
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12. The 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes in
context (nb, Richter scale is logarithmic: M6 is 10x M5)
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13. Managing after the earthquakes
• UC had a very sophisticated emergency management system
pre-September 4 with:
– Incident Management Team
– Emergency Management Centre (generator, secure server, CCTV,
two-way radio, remote campus control)
– Strategic Emergency Management Team
• Management teams had practised for emergencies using
simulations – earthquake, plane hitting the campus, bomb at
graduation, shooter on campus
• Emergency response mobilised instantly after both major
earthquakes
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14. Key question: does successfully managing a
prior, lesser crisis better prepare organisations
to manage a subsequent, greater crisis?
• Considerable management literature:
– ‘Failing to learn and learning to fail (intelligently): How great
organizations put failure to work to improve and innovate’ (Mark
Cannon and Amy Edmondson)
– ‘Lessons we don’t learn: A study of the lessons of disasters, why
we repeat them, and how we can learn them’ (Amy Donahue and
Robert Tuohy)
• Most of the literature focuses on obstacles to learning:
organisational amnesia
• Canterbury earthquakes provide a valuable case study of an
organisation recovering from two similar disasters within five
months
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15. Managing after September 4
• University closed for one week
• Building checklist:
– checked by engineers for structural integrity
– inspected by volunteer managers for hazards
– cleaned up by volunteer staff
• Most buildings reopened within one week
• General sense of relief that such a major earthquake caused
no loss of life and little structural damage
• Second semester timetable slightly adjusted to allow for
missed week, no discernable impact on student academic
performance in end-of-semester examinations
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16. Managing after February 22 (1)
• View established early in the SEMT that we had a successful
„roadmap‟ for managing recovery
• Recovery management almost immediately jumped to the
end-point reached post-September 4:
– twice daily meetings of IMT and SEMT discontinued
– communications to staff restricted to „customised‟ corporate
messages
– messages limited to what was known to be true
• …and SEMT immediately back on sushi diet
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17. Managing after February 22 (2)
• Managers acted professionally and in good faith
• But in applying lessons of September 4:
– recovery management arguably set in a more inflexible framework
post-February 22…
– …despite operating in a very different environment
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18. The changed environment post-February 22
• Many deaths and injuries – almost everyone at UC knew
someone who had died
• Staff fatigued after September 4
• Many staff (and students) living in damaged homes without
power, water or sewage – degraded resiliency
• Two major buildings declared „safe‟ after September 4
collapsed on February 22 – loss of public trust in engineering
assessments
• Widespread sense of despair – many people left Christchurch
to avoid aftershocks
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19. The changed environment: Canterbury Memorial
Day, March 18, one week after Japanese tsunami
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20. Impact of the changed environment
• Building checklist on campus:
– amended to include modelling for integrity in event of another
major earthquake (positive response)
– but lengthy process
– many buildings required repairs with uncertain timelines
• Corporate messages to staff inevitably provided limited
information
• Very limited opportunities to bring staff together to provide
mutual support – important with so many foreign staff
• Decision-making controlled by senior management for much
longer than post-September 4
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21. Some unintended consequences
• Less staff engagement in the recovery process than post-
September 4
• Frustration by academic staff over both communications and
decision-making
• Academic Board went through a period of difficult relations
with senior management
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22. But senior management did act decisively to
address severity of crisis UC faced
• University faced crippling loss of student enrolments
• Senior management moved quickly to:
– order large number of marquees so that teaching could resume on
campus within three weeks
– begin construction of approximately 100 portacoms (12m x 12m
units) to provide replacement open plan offices, teaching rooms
and computer labs
– arrange for UC students to study at other NZ and Australian
university as „no fee‟ exchange students in semester I
• Facebook was used effectively, as post-September 4, for two-
way communications with students
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23. The impact on domestic Equivalent Full-Time
Students
-1,500 EFTS
= -11%
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24. The impact on international Equivalent Full-
Time Students
-400 EFTS
= -30%
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25. And a huge positive outcome…
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26. Conclusions (1)
• UC had strong disaster management systems in place pre-
September 4
• Widely recognised that UC dealt well with the September 4
earthquake
• February 22 earthquake was profoundly more devastating
• Senior management acted to deal with the greater crisis,
drawing on the experience of September 4
• Key question:
– did the learning from September 4 make the organisation better able
to manage post-February 22?
– or did the learning from September make the organisation less flexible
in adapting to a very different operating environment?
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27. Conclusions (2)
• Managing through a disaster may be like managing through a
divorce
• Managing one divorce better prepares you for the operational
details of the next (lawyers, financial settlements, etc)
• But every divorce has a different context and dynamic
• Successfully managing an amicable divorce may:
– help you with the operational details next time
– but make you less able to deal with the unexpected acrimony of
your next divorce
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