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Biblical Principles of Crisis Leadership

The Role of Spirituality in Organizational Response

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Authors:
  1. Steve Firestone

    1. Regent University, Virginia Beach, USA

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  • Conceptualizes the leadership techniques needed during crisis situations
  • Introduces the concept of a Spiritual Crisis Leader and explains why leading this way can help an organization deal with crisis
  • Explains relationship between organizational culture and crisis response while discussing how leaders can encourage a crisis-ready culture
  • Introduces the term organizational grit and discusses how a leader can encourage resilience
  • Focuses on how leaders and organizations can successfully plan, prepare, and respond to unplanned events
  • Discusses the elements of servant leadership that make it the best leadership style for crisis response

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Steve Firestone
    Pages 1-6

  3. What Is Crisis Leadership?

    • Steve Firestone
    Pages 7-21

  4. Importance of Organizational Culture to Crisis Leadership

    • Steve Firestone
    Pages 23-34

  5. Personal Crisis and Its Relationship to Organizational Crisis Leadership

    • Steve Firestone
    Pages 35-43

  6. Spiritual Leadership and Crisis

    • Steve Firestone
    Pages 45-56

  7. Scripture as Guide and Comfort During a Crisis

    • Steve Firestone
    Pages 57-64

  8. Importance of Communication During a Crisis

    • Steve Firestone
    Pages 65-74

  9. Steps to Take During a Crisis

    • Steve Firestone
    Pages 75-83

  10. Growing and Improving from a Crisis

    • Steve Firestone
    Pages 85-94

  11. Crisis Leadership and Development of Organizational Resilience

    • Steve Firestone
    Pages 95-103

  12. Servant Leadership and Crisis Leadership

    • Steve Firestone
    Pages 105-117

  13. Conclusion

    • Steve Firestone
    Pages 119-122

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 123-125
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About this book

This book explores how spirituality can improve an organization’s ability to respond to a crisis. It presents biblical examples of leading during a crisis to show how faith can be relied upon to lead during crisis situations. Further, it presents examples of leaders using their faith during trying times. In recent years, organizations have begun to prepare for crises, but scholarly research has not kept up with their efforts. Exploring topics such as communication, servant leadership, and resilience, this work stakes new ground in leadership theory and will foster future research into the role of spirituality during organizational crisis. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Regent University, Virginia Beach, USA

    Steve Firestone

About the author

Steve Firestone is Associate Professor in the School of Business and Leadership and is the Director of the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership Program at Regent University, USA. His research interests include crisis leadership, the multigenerational workforce, spirituality in the workplace, and innovation leadership.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Biblical Principles of Crisis Leadership

  • Book Subtitle: The Role of Spirituality in Organizational Response

  • Authors: Steve Firestone

  • Series Title: Christian Faith Perspectives in Leadership and Business

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44955-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44954-4Published: 29 May 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44957-5Published: 29 May 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44955-1Published: 28 May 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2946-4579

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-4587

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 125

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Human Resource Management, Business Ethics, Management, Business and Management, general

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