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Leadership in Extreme Situations /

This book covers various aspects of leadership in critical situations and under extreme conditions. Today s leaders often face challenging situations or unexpected difficulties, and mastering these requires a wide spectrum of competencies such as creativity, courage and empathy. Therefore, this book...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Holenweger, Michael; Jager, Michael Karl; Kernic, Franz
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications,
Subjects:
Business
Leadership
Personnel management
Political science
Politics and war
School management and organization
School administration
Sociology
Business and Management
Business Strategy/Leadership
Military and Defence Studies
Administration, Organization and Leadership
Sociology, general
Human Resource Management
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55059-6
Summary: This book covers various aspects of leadership in critical situations and under extreme conditions. Today s leaders often face challenging situations or unexpected difficulties, and mastering these requires a wide spectrum of competencies such as creativity, courage and empathy. Therefore, this book provides an interdisciplinary approach including both theoretical concepts and practical findings relevant to optimizing leadership in extreme situations. Issues such as why people act as they do in stressful and extreme situations, or what constitutes the nexus between leadership/followership, o
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XII, 390 pages): illustrations.
ISBN: 9783319550596
Index Number: HD28
CLC: C933
Contents: Part I: General Part -- Introduction -- Facing Death: The Dynamics of Leadership and Group Behavior in Extreme Situations when Death Strikes without Warning -- Crisis, Leadership, and Extreme Contexts -- Team Leadership in Extremis: Enschede, Uruzgan, Kathmandu and Beyond -- Leadership, Morale and Cohesion: What Should be Changed? -- Leadership in Extreme Conditions and under Severe Stress: Case Study Analysis -- Part II: Leadership in Extreme Situations and Military Settings -- The Role of Short Term Volunteers in Responding to Humanitarian Crises: Lessons from the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. Le

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