Title

Making Matters Worse: An Anatomy Of Leadership Failures In Managing Catastrophic Events

Keywords

Catastrophic disasters; Disaster management; Hurricane Katrina; Leadership; Leadership competencies

Abstract

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 Katrina-Rita hurricanes on New Orleans and systematically examines how poor leadership-lacking a series of critical competencies required in extreme conditions-can maximize catastrophic events. © 2008 Sage Publications.

Publication Date

11-1-2008

Publication Title

Administration and Society

Volume

40

Issue

7

Number of Pages

711-740

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399708323143

Socpus ID

54749118536 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/54749118536

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