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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Crisis Leadership"”.
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Managing a crisis : leadership and organizational elements essential for success
Every organization will face a crisis at some point in its history. How well an organization handles the preparation, response and recovery from a crisis is highly dependent on the strength of its leadership and overall design. This thesis develops a framework of five leadership and seven …
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Tech-Savvy School Principals Leveraging Crisis Leadership to Support Teaching and Learning in Their Schools Through COVID-19 Pandemic
… during the first academic year of the COVID-19 crisis. The study involved semi structured interviews with five recognized tech-savvy school principals. It also involved analyzing supporting materials and documents.</p> <p>The findings of this study indicated that tech-savvy principals were not …
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Anchored in Mission: Decision-Making Among Student Affairs Administrators in Jesuit Universities During the Covid-19 Crisis
… the navigation of decision-making during the crisis, exploring the interplay between corporate (financial and operational) and Jesuit (mission-driven) decision-making premises. Using a qualitative research design, the study employed semi-structured interviews to examine reported leadership …
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Crisis leadership at South African universities: An exploration of the effectiveness of the strategies and responses of university leadership teams to the #FeesMustFall (#FMF) protests at South African universities in 2015 and 2016
… such an unprecedented revolt, and the leadership had to summon all their intuition and acumen to navigate, deciding whether to merely defend their institutions or to concede to students’ demands. Did they manage the moment or lead it, and did they steel their institutions against …
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Lessons From Leading During a Pandemic: An Exploratory Study of Public Health Leadership Insights on Training, Preparation, and Experiences From the Field During COVID-19
… public health leaders equipped with an array of crisis leadership skills. This study sought to achieve three aims in the COVID-19 setting: assess the perceived competencies of public health leaders; examine the training of public health leaders; and provide lessons learned regarding improvements …
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Leading Through Crisis: San Diego County Schools' Response to the Social Emotional Needs of All Students
… extent to which school leaders engaged with the crisis leadership key competencies outlined by Riggio & Newstead (2023). The research explored the social-emotional effects of school closures on students and the extent to which school administrators employed crisis leadership competencies to …
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Crisis Management: A Qualitative Study of Extreme Event Leadership
… events for expanding the existing knowledge of crisis leadership. Through interviews with leaders that had direct leadership roles in extreme events such as the Fukushima nuclear reactor explosions, Deepwater Horizon oilrig explosion, and Super Storm Sandy, in addition to national leadership, …
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COVID-19 Crisis: Shifting Educational Leadership Toward a New Normal - A Case Study
… has often pointed to the role of educational leadership and its relationship to the quality and well-being of a school’s culture and climate. Recently the coronavirus has created a crisis on a magnitude the world has never seen that has globally altered human interactions and created an …
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Strategic Plan Decision-Making During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study of College Presidents
… and how leaders led their institution through crisis response and strategic planning. The recommendations set forth in this study include, during crisis: evaluate the need to temporarily pause strategic planning activities, thoughtfully allocate personnel resources, engage in scenario planning, …
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DUAL DISRUPTIONS: OVERCOMING THE EFFECTS OF DISASTERS AND MIS-, DIS-, AND MAL-INFORMATION ON DEMOCRACIES
… the frameworks for democratic principles, crisis leadership, sensemaking, and the social production of disasters. This thesis finds that the combination of ineffective disaster response, poor leadership, and false information can undermine socially constructed legitimacy, amplify and …
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K-12 leadership drivers in March of 2020 : What can we learn?
… the necessary criteria and potential outcomes of crisis leadership. The results showed who was an influential resource for the participants’ decisions, strategies they employed in their decision-making processes, and the drivers they used to guide their decisions and provide the necessary support …
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REFLECTIONS ON LEADERSHIP AND DECISION-MAKING CHALLENGES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: NARRATIVES OF UPPER DIVISION HEADS IN QUAKER SCHOOLS
… pandemic, education leaders faced an intense crisis of uncertain duration. For the next two years, they had to adapt and innovate to maximize learning opportunities for their pupils, while balancing the emotional needs of faculty, students and parents, as well as self-care. For Quaker school …
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Context-relevant strategic decision-making by leaders under crisis conditions
In recent years, the field of crisis leadership has garnered increased scholarly attention due to the unparalleled challenges faced by leaders globally. The study investigated how leaders navigated crises such as natural disasters, pandemics, and geopolitical conflicts, and how their diverse …
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Grounded Theory Approach to Examine Trust, Innovation, and Resiliency in Health Security Leadership
… exposed critical weaknesses in health security leadership. Approximately 40 million Americans lost their local public health leaders due to political interference, threats, and untenable working conditions. This exodus revealed a fundamental gap in understanding how effective health security …
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Sustainable authentic leadership practices among female corporate leaders during times of crises: A qualitative inquiry
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Leadership Styles Present During Change in Secondary Education
… of this qualitative study was to explore the leadership styles present during change in secondary education. Four high school teachers, from various districts in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, were interviewed about their experiences with leadership through the change of school structure due …
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Revitalization, Reinvigoration and Motivation of Survivors in Changed, Restructured and Downsized Organizations: A Study of Leadership Challenges in Local Government
… keeping employees informed about the fiscal crisis and what was being done about it; soliciting employee input and feedback about what to do to respond to crisis situations; redesigning jobs and providing professional development opportunities related to an employee's new responsibilities and …