Making matters worse : an anatomy of leadership failures in managing catastrophic events
By: Kapucu, Naim
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Contributor(s): Wart, Montgomery Van.
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, November 2008Administration & Society 40, 7, p. 711-740Abstract: Catastrophic disasters require additional leadership capabilities because extreme events overwhelm local capabilities and damage emergency response systems themselves. Therefore, leaders at all levels must adapt and rebuild the response system, even while they are addressing the pressing needs of the disaster itself. Leaders can minimize or maximize the effects of the trigger event(s) by their actions and competence in dealing with this especially difficult set of overlapping and, frequently, even inconsistent tasks. This case studies the effects of the KatrinaRita hurricanes on New Orleans and systematically examines how poor leadershiplacking a series of critical competencies required in extreme conditionscan maximize catastrophic events
Catastrophic disasters require additional leadership capabilities because extreme events overwhelm local capabilities and damage emergency response systems themselves. Therefore, leaders at all levels must adapt and rebuild the response system, even while they are addressing the pressing needs of the disaster itself. Leaders can minimize or maximize the effects of the trigger event(s) by their actions and competence in dealing with this especially difficult set of overlapping and, frequently, even inconsistent tasks. This case studies the effects of the KatrinaRita hurricanes on New Orleans and systematically examines how poor leadershiplacking a series of critical competencies required in extreme conditionscan maximize catastrophic events
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