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A Pilot Study of High-Stakes Decision-Making for Crisis Leadership

Oroszi, Terry Lynn
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1464709408

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2016, Doctor of Education (EdD), Wright State University, Leadership Studies.
High-stakes decision-making represents a critical component of crisis leadership. This study examined the decision-making processes practiced by global, national, and local crisis leaders to identify common decision-making process traits and propose a useful model to guide crisis leaders high-stakes decision-making. This research suggested the hypothesis is correct and inexperienced crisis leaders may benefit from a potential new decision-making model better aligned with the experiences of a panel of national and global crisis decision-making experts. Crises have distinct factors: they are time sensitive, pose significant risks, and require consequential decisions. A sample group of fifteen national and international expert crisis leaders from national security, law enforcement, and government sectors was selected for participation in this study. Seven popular decision-making models were deconstructed into individual process traits and turned in a survey. The experts were asked to identify process traits from the survey that they felt best reflected their approach to decision-making. The results were analyzed and a new model assembled based on their expertise. These findings identified a pattern of practice across the spectrum of crisis leaders and demonstrate the usefulness of a new decision-making model that captures the decision-making process traits of expert crisis leaders. This research suggests the hypothesis is correct and will provide inexperienced crisis leaders a potential new decision-making model drawn from the experiences of a panel of global crisis decision-making experts.
Jill Lindsey, Ph.D. (Advisor)
R. William Ayres, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Norma Adragna, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Larry James , Ph.D. (Committee Member)
205 p.
Behavioral Psychology; Business Education; Educational Leadership; Political Science; Psychology
Crisis, Decision-making, WMD, Terrorism, High-Stakes, Leadership, Decision Model

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  • Oroszi, T. L. (2016). A Pilot Study of High-Stakes Decision-Making for Crisis Leadership [Doctoral dissertation, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1464709408

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Oroszi, Terry. A Pilot Study of High-Stakes Decision-Making for Crisis Leadership. 2016. Wright State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1464709408.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Oroszi, Terry. "A Pilot Study of High-Stakes Decision-Making for Crisis Leadership." Doctoral dissertation, Wright State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1464709408

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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