Emergency Services Leadership A Contemporary Approach

This text presents a variety of leadership theories and explores how they apply to current emergency services leadership roles by giving examples of leadership theory application in the emergency services and suggesting best practices. The authors address how leadership has evolved from the theories #x1C;position and authority#x1D; to more contemporary approaches, in which leadership is expressed in terms of influence relations, servitude, risk agencies, and transformational change agents.

Chapter1 Introduction to Leadership
Chapter2 Historical Perspectives
Chapter3 Other Considerations for Emergency Services Leaders
Chapter4 Leader-Centric Theories
Chapter5 Early Contingency Models and Theories of Leadership
Chapter6 Contemporary Theories of Leadership
Chapter7 Issues in Leadership
Chapter8 In the Heat of Battle
Chapter9 In a Land Far, Far Away
Chapter10 Downtime
Chapter11 The Challenges of Being the Chief
Chapter12 Ever-Changing Roles