Tactics, command, leadership

5. Organisations, groups, leaders In encounters between people or groups of people, many diffe- rent types of relationships aris ...

jective that is important for a group’s area of responsibility (task) and welfare. Moreover, he writes that the criterion for le ...

to work in a hazardous environment and where people may have been severely affected by accidents. Unfortunately, this can be a d ...

of general concept in conjunction with these operations. What is important here as well is that one formulates a general concept ...

Groups Svedberg (2003) provides three definitions of groups. According to the first, a group consists of two or more mutually de ...

tus systems where one or more individuals in various ways raise themselves above others in the group. There is a hierarchy withi ...

of group is the constituted or organised group. In these cases, the initiative comes from above. Here the members have a higher ...

ciently professional in conducting their profession that ‘bad days’ do not negatively affect work, especially work in conjunctio ...

part of the members’ own views and perceptions, which the mem- bers subsequently assert in the presence of others, both within a ...

sor who attempts to breach group norms, for example, when this is required by the situation at an incident site, must be prepare ...

The communications pattern becomes more complex and in- direct. Organisational problems become more numerous and larger. The de ...

not, however, necessarily make them leaders. But for the sake of simplicity, let us now equate supervisors with leaders, i.e. th ...

language, ‘steamrolling’ other people and using the power ac- corded by the supervisor position to ensure that a certain task is ...

must have the ability to independently handle a given situation without continual guidance. How a situation is dealt with must b ...

of a response operation as set by the superior level. Management by details, however, involves attention being directed downward ...

not understand the purpose of a group or work team’s tasks can be very difficult to work with. Certain types of tasks at an inci ...

Has good self awareness and an inner sense of security that provides the ability to deal with conflicts and to stand for his or ...

Arvonen (1995) emphases the needs for the leader to serve as an example, to be a visionary and to be able to create a working en ...

But in this context, one can also speak of leadership styles in rela- tion to the organisation’s effectiveness and employees’ jo ...

its employees can, however, attain better results with the help of so­called leadership development. Leadership development enta ...