Case Review: The Action Plan for the Chicago Center Fire Accident: The Role of Leadership in Emergency Response

Collaboration is essential for dealing with natural and technological hazards disasters the consequences of terrorism. Generally, it accepted that all administrative agencies require a combination transactional transformational leaders, especially within emergency management agencies. However, conflicts arose from creating Department Homeland Security (DHS) to impose command control system on collaborative organizational culture sociopolitical legal context. The significant factors are ability willingness appropriately distinguish needs priorities disaster apart civil defense preferences; selection well-qualified leaders background in accidental disasters; quality implementation programs including execution, number level presidential declarations, timely involvement catastrophes. To what extent crisis related management, change leadership? How these distinctions illustrated at competency level? While essential, must be targeted time-sensitive. Competencies were identified as influential leaders’ important characteristics or behaviors during crises. New leadership strategies derive their power adequate practical compelling vision rather than hierarchy, rank, standard operating procedures recommended.