Perception and organizational crisis management
β Scribed by Hooshang Kuklan
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 700 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-5833
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β¦ Synopsis
The crisis management literature suggests that under crisis pressures decision makers (1) develop a highly negative attitude, and (2) move toward centralizing the decision process in policy areas. It is hypothesized here that these behavioral consequences do not accompany all cases of crisis confrontation but occur when the decision maker perceives a significant discrepancy between one's coping abilities and what is viewed to be necessary to abate the crisis. This hypothesis has been empirically tested. The evidence supports this perceptual nature of organizational crisis management.
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