Crisis-Ready Teams - Mary Waller, Seth Kaplan

Crisis-Ready Teams

Data-Driven Lessons from Aviation, Nuclear Power, Emergency Medicine, and Mine Rescue
Buch | Hardcover
200 Seiten
2024
Stanford Business Books,US (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0144-4 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
Prepare any team for peak performance when crisis comes.


Crisis-Ready Teams explains how any team, and any team leader, in any industry or sector, can prepare in advance to manage crises that suddenly pull people together to address high-magnitude events that could seriously harm their organizations. The book is based on extensive, unprecedented research on crisis team dynamics, key success behaviors, and why some teams perform so much better than others. Leading scholars Mary J. Waller and Seth A. Kaplan recorded and statistically analyzed audio and video recordings of hundreds of hours of crisis simulations involving flight crews, nuclear power plant control rooms, mine rescues, emergency room doctors and nurses, etc. Based on this empirical research, and other academic literature on how teams perform in crises, the authors show how crisis teams and leaders can cement crucial behaviors through attention to team composition and communication, especially in the first few minutes of a crisis.


The book provides a valuable framework and research data for scholars studying crises and teams in organizations. It is also appropriate for MBA or executive education instruction on crisis management and leadership.

Mary J. Waller is Senior Research Scholar at the College of Business at Colorado State University. Prior to completing her Ph.D., she worked in petroleum, aviation, and software development. She is the recipient of the 2024 Joseph A. McGrath Lifetime Achievement Award from the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup).Seth Kaplan is Professor of Psychology at George Mason University. His research explores individual and team performance in high-reliability contexts.

Introduction: Teams and Crises

1. How Teams Respond to Rare, Catastrophic Events: An Overview

Part I: Setting the Tone for a Crisis Response

2. Tone, Timing, and Patterns

3. How Trauma Teams and Flight Crews Set the Tone

4. How Seaport and MBA Crisis Teams Share Information and Avoid Solution Fixation

Part II: Adapting on the Fly

5. To Adapt With Routines or Without Them?

6. How Flight Crews and Nuclear Plant Crews Adapt During Crises

7. How the NEADS Team Adapted to the Nonsensical on 9/11

Part III: Finding the Balance

8. Team Leaders & Tensions

9. How Nuclear Plant Crews Balance Routine and Improvisation

10. How Flight Crews Balance Planning and Acting

11. How Mine Rescue Teams Go Slow to Go Fast

Part IV: Helping Teams Become Crisis-Ready

12. Designing High-Performing Teams for Crises

13. Training High-Performing Teams for Crises

14. Enhancing Team Resilience for Crises

15. The Ethics of Crisis Preparation

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.9.2024
Reihe/Serie High Reliability and Crisis Management
Zusatzinfo 14 tables, 17 figures
Verlagsort Palo Alto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Planung / Organisation
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 1-5036-0144-7 / 1503601447
ISBN-13 978-1-5036-0144-4 / 9781503601444
Zustand Neuware
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