Full Description
This book aims to fill the gap in our knowledge about crisis management in schools, its particular characteristics, and strategies from a historical point of view. It combines knowledge about educational leadership with biographical narratives of great leaders in history who have faced a tremendous crisis successfully and from whom we can learn a lot about effective coping strategies in times of crisis. The leaders in the book represent different nations and organizations, facing political, military, economic or social crises. The book provides a deeper knowledge necessary for preparing for a possible crisis and for managing it in successful ways if it comes and adds novel insights into the field of educational administration and leadership in the twenty-first century.
Contents
Chapter 1. The current scholarship about crisis management in organizations.- Section I: Insights from global/political crises.- Chapter 2. Abraham Lincoln.- Chapter 3. Winston Churchill.- Chapter 4. Charles de Gaulle.- Chapter 5. John Kennedy.- Section II: The military crisis in times of war.- Chapter 6. The Duke of Wellington.- Chapter 7. Alexander the Great.- Chapter 8. Elizabeth I.- Chapter 9. Napoleon Bonaparte.- Section III: Insights from economic crises.- Chapter 10. Theodore Roosevelt.- Chapter 11. Franklin D. Roosevelt.- Chapter 12. Margaret Thatcher.- Section IV: Conclusion.- Chapter 13. Towards a practical model to cope with an organizational crisis in our schools.
