Tactics, command, leadership

working on entirely different levels. It may, for example, seem relatively simple for senior management to make the decision in ...

6. Decisions and decision making Tactics, command and leadership are closely associated with de- cision making. It can be a matt ...

with leading a municipal fire brigade, conducting emergency re- sponse operations or conducting tasks are thus not simple duties ...

that the problem corresponds to an existing model for decisions. These models are often very simplified, which can constitute a ...

ship between time and space arises. Secondly, many emergency situations, such as fires, are dynamic situations. They are time­de ...

Through their experience, experts have also gained the ability to improvise and are therefore not as bound to rules as novices. ...

Working with decisions in groups Decisions should, not the least in a rescue service context, be linked to a specific individual ...

A man has become clamped in a garbage press at a recycling station. It soon becomes apparent that if extensive resources are not ...

someone believes that someone else shares or understands the perceptions, objectives or values that are applicable for a certain ...

brought together and expected to function as a unit. Orasanu et al. (1992b) emphasise the importance to teams, and in the traini ...

information and knowledge that disturb their own perceptions of problems. In making decisions and handling supporting informatio ...

The entire system can normally not be shaped or handled by a single person. This means, for example, that an emergency re- spons ...

on the task to be executed, i.e. a weighing between the need for assistance and the organisation. The need to shape and adapt t ...

How an individual perceives and evaluates a given situation is de- cisive for whether the individual will experience stress. In ...

clude muscular tension, which among other things can lead to trembling, twitching stiff and jerky motion, defective speech and a ...

When stress occurs, attention tends to be directed towards central issues, which can lead to ‘tunnel vision’. Under high stress ...

the consequence. One is caught in a vicious circle. The group’s survival is dependent on a type of leadership that can hold to- ...

for conduct. The challenge for an organisation, and especially for those in command, is to comply with established values. It is ...

ethics, which describe how various people and societies believe that one should conduct oneself under different circumstances; a ...

An important foundation stone is constituted by values, which are strongly linked to both the ethics and morals a particular in- ...