Tactics, command, leadership

emergency response operation must be conducted upwards in the

system, at the same time as it occurs laterally, Subordinate super-

visors will then be relieved of certain management tasks without

this negatively affecting efforts. The prerequisites for being able

to improve the capability to lead the system will also be improved

as the build­up occurs upwards. The role of the individual will

then be similar throughout the build­up phase. The roles will not

change for the individuals who have already been deployed at the

incident site. One can speak of role logic, i.e. the expectations that

exist for each person on different occasions being sufficiently ali-

ke that they are perceived as reasonable by the individual, which

is an important aspect in the societal context that an emergency

response operation constitutes – individuals (supervisors) must be

able to feel secure in their roles. The expectations, in other words,

should be logical for the individual from one occasion to the next.

But role logic also entails that these reasonable role expectations

for individuals should be similar for one and the same person

during different phases of, for example, an emergency response

operation.

As an emergency response operation gears up, the authority to

deal with the objectives of the response is moved upwards in the

system. For the decision domain task command, other authorities

remain that are in line with the role logic. If needs arise for ad-

ditional units, more task command decision domains are created,

based on, among other things, span of control. This entails that

task command can be viewed at various degrees of resolution. Ob-

jectives of operations thus belong to the decision domain opera-

tional command and intents of responses to the decision domain

system command. If additional management capacity is needed for

these decision domains, one or more staffs are attached. Note, ho-

wever, that there should be different staffs for system command

and operational command.

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