Why we need to teach crisis management and to use case studies to do it.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1993Description: 11 pSubject: Case studies (CSDs) introduce problems and provoke the search for solutions. The introduction of numerous crisis situations into a CSD-based program of study intensifies and makes more effective the warning about the modern crisis era and facilitates understanding of the different kinds of crises. The CSD helps provide a "halfway house" between abstract concepts and real-life experience. Once understanding has been achieved, skills in the application of the concept can be developed through regular and varied CSD practice. Students learn from the previous experiences and situations enveloped in the CSD. CSDs help managers make better decisions in crises by helping to increase awareness of the problem and by contributing to the theory base from which managers can draw
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Australian Emergency Management Library | BOOK | 658.4030722 WHY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 005727568 |
Bibliography: p. 147-148
Reprinted from Management Education and Development; 1993; Vol. 24; No. 2; p. 138-148
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Case studies (CSDs) introduce problems and provoke the search for solutions. The introduction of numerous crisis situations into a CSD-based program of study intensifies and makes more effective the warning about the modern crisis era and facilitates understanding of the different kinds of crises. The CSD helps provide a "halfway house" between abstract concepts and real-life experience. Once understanding has been achieved, skills in the application of the concept can be developed through regular and varied CSD practice. Students learn from the previous experiences and situations enveloped in the CSD. CSDs help managers make better decisions in crises by helping to increase awareness of the problem and by contributing to the theory base from which managers can draw
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