EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP

Leadership in Emergency Management

Leadership in Emergency Management

Introduction

This discussion will consider the perspective of an emergency management leader and focus on a particular emergency or problem for the leader in an attempt to elaborate on the factors that should be considered for emergency preparedness. In the process, the discussion will highlight the policy that ought to be implemented at the time of the disaster and the rationale that supports them.

When values ??conflict, there is no one right answer. The sense of justice is more emotional than rational, it is scientifically proven. Different areas of the brain are activated when it comes to choosing between justice and efficiency. Rationalization takes into account an increasing number of social actions based on considerations of teleological efficiency or calculation, leaving aside the moral emotion or custom. Leaders must explain. The leader has the function of legitimizing decisions, more or less rational. Likewise, delegitimize the rationalizations that can be used as an excuse not to do something.

Discussion & Analyses

The public leader needs to create a team of disaster planning involving major functional managers of all operations of the organization, as well as human resources and professional risk management or security. Employees of local fire, police and emergency management offices, as well as city or state are also important members of this team (Schneider, 2005). He/she has to decide who will be authorized to make decisions for the planning team and the extent of the authority to make decisions. If additional authority is required for important decisions, this can be requested or additional decision makers invited to join the staff. There is also a need to develop a structure plan and mission statement. The team must decide the purpose and scope of the project take to ensure that there are no misunderstandings and can be implemented with the final product team. A calendar, deadlines and budgets are useful tools to help this process along.

The public leader establishes that staff should be in the group of emergency management. This group can be considered an emergency team to coordinate all activities related to the emergency or disaster. An Incident Commander should be chosen from that group (Kapucu, 2005). The incident commander is the leader of the EMG and EMG activities of decision support, leadership and activities of the incident commander. It is essential for the public leader to install a system of incident command. An incident command system is a protocol used by fire fighters, police organizations, emergency units and business organizations to organize a coordinated response to an emergency or disaster. Although the incident command systems are standardized, there is some flexibility to customize an ICS to fit special circumstances.

The public leader's measures will not bear fruit unless consideration is give to setting up an emergency operations center. The emergency operations center is a centralized area that serves as the basis of communications, decisions and emergency operations (Crondstedt, 2002). It is essential to set it up so that decision makers gather in a central location known so ...