Title

A historiometric analysis of leadership in mission critical multiteam environments

Authors

Authors

L. A. DeChurch; C. S. Burke; M. L. Shuffler; R. Lyons; D. Doty;E. Salas

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Leadersh. Q.

Keywords

Leadership; Multiteam systems; Functional leadership; Pragmatic; leadership; Team effectiveness; Historiometric; HURRICANE-KATRINA; TEAMS; ORGANIZATIONS; BOUNDARY; PERFORMANCE; DECISIONS; DISASTER; SYSTEMS; WORK; Psychology, Applied; Management

Abstract

Perhaps nowhere are leaders more pivotal than in the extreme contexts of responding to the aftermath of natural disasters or orchestrating post-war stability, support, transition, and reconstruction efforts. In the current study, historiometric methods were employed in order to elucidate the aspects of leadership essential in these extreme contexts. These contexts were chosen for two reasons: (1) they capture the external networking required of many complex organizational tasks and (2) they are mission critical - the outcomes of leadership in these contexts are of great importance. One hundred and ten critical incidents were written describing instances of effective and ineffective interaction within these systems, and 55 of them were classified as primarily describing leadership issues. Critical incidents were then sorted, translated, and retranslated in order to inductively derive a set of leader functions essential for orchestrating effort in mission critical multiteam contexts. (c) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Leadership Quarterly

Volume

22

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

152

Last Page

169

WOS Identifier

WOS:000288289200013

ISSN

1048-9843

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