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A crisis is described as an unforeseen and potentially threatening event of severe difficulty or danger that can lead to disruption of normal functioning, often requires new strategies of dealing...
- (PDF) DEFINITIONS IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND CRISIS LEADERSHIP - ResearchGate
This chapter examines Crisis (essence, content, views),...
- (PDF) An Introduction to Crisis Management - ResearchGate
This article aimed to examine the concepts of crisis and...
- (PDF) DEFINITIONS IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND CRISIS LEADERSHIP - ResearchGate
2 kwi 2020 · This chapter examines Crisis (essence, content, views), traditional and modern forms of crises, unprecedented crises and emergencies on a global scale, and the crisis management concept...
5 sie 2012 · This article aimed to examine the concepts of crisis and crisis management, the types of crises, the patterns and stages through which crises pass in organizations.
The Harvard Business School definition states that a crisis is: “a change – either sudden or evolving – that results in an urgent problem that must be addressed immediately” (Luecke and Barton, 2004).
When a crisis occurs, select individuals in an organization—perhaps those on an established crisis management team— convene to minimize the damage and present a positive image to the public.
This definition of crisis covers a wide variety of adversity: natural disasters and environ-mental threats, financial meltdowns and surprise attacks, terrorist attacks and hostage takings, epidemics and exploding factories, infrastructural dramas and organizational decline.
Paul t’Hart has given a contemporary definition of crisis, describing it as an “unpleasant event that represents a challenge for decision-makers, tempts them to act under conditions of imperilment, time constraint and unprepared-ness.” Crisis is a “serious threat to the basic structures or fundamental values